Taking Control of TMJ: Your Total Wellness Program for Recovering from Temporomandibular Joint Pain, Whiplash, Fibromyalgia, and Related Disorders
by Robert Uppgaard
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Author: Robert UppgaardEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1999-01-01
ISBN: 1572241268
Number of pages: 200
Publisher: New Harbinger Publications
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Book Reviews of Taking Control of TMJ: Your Total Wellness Program for Recovering from Temporomandibular Joint Pain, Whiplash, Fibromyalgia, and Related Disorders
Book Review: Informative, empowering and effective
Summary: 5 Stars
I caught my clenching and/or bruxing early. However I'd chipped a rear molar in my sleep. Both of my rear molar were extremely temperature and pressure sensitive to the point that eating, drinking and tooth brushing were pure misery. I suffered from a constant sick headache. Bright lights and moderately loud sounds made it feel much worse. If I happened to accidently graze a rear-upper molar with a lower one, the pain just about sent me through the roof.
I seriously had visions of having both of those teeth pulled as they hurt almost as much as a bona fide toothache. Sadly this book told of desperate people who had done exactly that under similar circumstances. But their tooth remained because they never treated the cause of it. Since I found it highly unlikely that I developed abscesses in both upper-rear molars simultaneously, TMJ seemed a likely culprit. Hence I found this book:
This book explains the causes of your suffering so that it's not so frightening, and it give you options so that you don't additionally feel like a powerless victim at the mercy of the overpriced and cash-crazed American medical system that seems obsessed with drugging you or cutting you. Sadly such approaches have made things far worse for TMJ sufferers, and even more sadly, they may have been entirely unnecessary for many such sufferers.
While there are many alternative. noninvasive and VASTLY less expensive strategies in this book, for me hot compresses provided short-term quick tangible relief when pressed against jaw joint and muscles. In conjunction with these muscle balms such as arnica gel, its attached homeopathic pellets as well as Tiger balm provided partial temporary analgesic relief on my cheek, jaw, temple and forehead muscles so I could at least get to sleep. Just be careful not to get the stuff in your eyes. This was all fine and good for treating the symptoms of my TMJ, but it wasn't enough. I wanted the cure.
For me at least, I didn't discover the REAL cure until several miserable days later which is as follows: In conjunction with the aforementioned hot compresses, it consisted of my best friend telling me about Dr. Oz's suggestion of using a wine cork vertically between the front upper and lower teeth so that the massester muscles can relax into a stretch. It really was that simple. While your masseter (jaw) muscle are stretching you can lie down, sit up, walk, drive, read, watch TV or whatever. And if your significant other ever told you to "put a cork in it," well then...there's that too.
I imagine if you do an advanced Google search such as: "Dr. Oz" and "wine cork" and TMJ, that should find it quick.
Be aware that like during any stretch of a spasmed muscle, masseter muscles with TMJ are particularly stiff and might even be a trifle sore thus requiring more than just a single effort, or a brief one for that matter. Keep in mind that during the first part of the stretch, your referred pain (in my case my upper-rear teeth) hurt more for a few dozen seconds. But being accustomed to that from yoga I stuck with it. You need to let go, relax and breath into the stretch. It hurt like blazes at first, but it let go bit by bit until miraculously it disappeared altogether. What was at least as remarkable though, was that during the stretch the adjacent forehead, temple and scalp muscles muscles (the cause of your peripheral headaches and eye pain, by the way) abruptly let go and relaxed from trying to compensate for the misalignment of the masseters. As a result, the peripheral headaches and eye strain pain vanished immediately. Bonnie Prudden's book explains why this is so. It's really a helpful book so that you have the overall understanding of why your eyes and head hurts too during TMJ.
Since then if I've an occasional twinge due to stress, I nightly resume wearing the brand name mouth guard called "The Doctor's Night Guard" well, ah... nightly, just in case I'm bruxing. And during the day I resume the cork stretching, and that does the trick. The last time I had to do so the tooth sensitivity (minor to moderate that time) was gone in less than 24 hours including time asleep.
In addition, if you're suffering from TMJ, someone I know also swears by her chiropractor's use of an ultrasonic muscle massage. I personally never tried that because I never needed to, but if my suggestions do not work for you, then that might be an option as well. Otherwise do like I did and research your options before you let anyone do anything to you that very well may be irreversible.
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Summary of Taking Control of TMJ: Your Total Wellness Program for Recovering from Temporomandibular Joint Pain, Whiplash, Fibromyalgia, and Related Disorders
If you are among the 60 million people in the United States affected by TMJ disorder, then you may know what it?s like to have your problem be misdiagnosed or go untreated. Perhaps you?ve undergone unnecessary and costly treatments to no avail. Dr. Uppgaard?s Total Wellness Program will help you understand this painful condition, relieve its symptoms, prevent its recurrence, and avoid unnecessary surgery. This comprehensive guide also explores the connection TMJ disorder has to fibromyalgia and whiplash.
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