How do Chiropractic adjustments help with jaw pain?
There are many causes of jaw pain, including teeth grinding, arthritis and injuries.
01 Teeth grinding
Jaw pain can often be caused by regular teeth grinding (awake or asleep) which can cause pain in your jaw joint and in the muscles that control jaw movement.
02 Arthritis
The pain and discomfort associated with arthritis in your jaw joint and surrounding muscles may be eased with gentle chiropractic manipulations and ongoing soft tissue work.
03 Drug-free treatment for pain
Our chiropractic care is a gentle and drug-free option to manage your jaw pain from a variety of issues, including genetics, grinding or injury.
What is jaw pain and how can Chiropractors help?
Our Chiropractors use gentle adjustments and soft tissue work to ease jaw pain.
Chiropractic care for Jaw Pain
Jaw pain often occurs when there is an acute or chronic inflammation of the temporomandibular joint, which is the jaw bone that connects your mandible to your skull. This can affect the joints, jaw muscles, and facial nerves around your jaw.
Jaw dysfunction can also cause headaches and migraines which could require additional chiropractic care.
The joints are located on either side of your head to connect the lower jaw bone (your mandible) to the temporal bones of the skull on each side of your head. The muscles controlling the joints are attached to the mandible and allow the jaw to move.
People with jaw pain often feel a clicking of the jaw, or popping of the jaw when you open your mouth. There are a variety of reasons this may occur, such as from unjust, teeth grinding, or degenerative joint diseases such as arthritis.
Gentle chiropractic adjustments may help treat the causes of joint pain.
Chat with our Busselton Chiropractors about how they can help treat your jaw pain and other issues.
FAQs
Here are our answers to some of our most frequently asked questions about chiropractic care for jaw pain.