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Re: TMJ / Jaw pain

Author: MikeH
Date: 2007-07-03 23:39

You have my sympathy as I have posted here recently on having TMJ pain. I do not know if this is feasible for you but I simply stopped playing for a month. During that time my right TMJ seemed to migrate back into place. I started playing again without pain but there is still motion in the joint and often a considerable amount of cracking especially after eating following a playing session. I am very careful to use mpc's that are easy to control and resist the impulse to use one or another of my older open tip jaw busters. For what it is worth, I would suggest that you take some time off, if you can, to see if your TMJ will return to normal on its own. Time can be a great healer. One bit of advice that came very emphatically from my dentist: do NOT seek an operation. Good luck to you. I hope it works out for you.

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