Posts Tagged ‘TMJ Treatment’

Temporomandibular Joint (TMJ) disorder is a condition that either or both sides of a person’s jaw leads to pain, discomfort, and restricted movement in the jaw. Anatomically, what occurs in 80+ percent of cases is the articular disc of the TMJ displaces anteriorly due to a degeneration of the posterior joint capsule. What this leads to is an imbalance of the muscles of mastication leading to a variety of muscles becoming atrophied, hypertonic, overused or trigger point formation.