Chiropractic Treatment Can Ease Jaw Pain Related to TMJ After Auto Injury

Jaw pain is a fairly common condition reported by people after a car crash, and it can be hard for some health practitioners to identify the source of the problem. Complicating the matter, very often you won't experience TMJ symptoms until many weeks or months after a crash.

Mulholland Chiropractic Center, LLC has treated many people with jaw pain after an injury, and the scientific literature explains what causes these types of problems. During a car accident, the tissues in your spine are oftentimes stretched or torn, causing ligament, muscle, or nerve damage. This can obviously cause pain in the neck and back, but since your central nervous system is one functioning unit, inflammation of the nerves can cause problems in other parts of your body.

For instance, with radicular pain, irritation of a nerve can cause tingling or numbness in the arm and hand. Similarly, it can affect parts of your body above the injury, like your head and jaw. Headaches after car accident are very common because of neck injury, and the jaw works the same way. Mulholland Chiropractic Center, LLC sees this very commonly in our Anchorage office.

Research Shows Chiropractic Treatment Lessens TMJ Pain After Auto Injury

Studies have shown that the source of many jaw or TMJ symptoms originates in the neck and that treatment of the underlying neck injury can fix the secondary headaches or jaw symptoms. The trick to dealing with these symptoms is simple: Mulholland Chiropractic Center, LLC will work to restore your spine back to health, reducing the inflammatory reaction, treating the injured tissues, and lessening the irritation to the nerves in your spine.

Mulholland Chiropractic Center, LLC has found that jaw and headache issues often resolve once we restore your spine to its healthy condition.

If you reside in Anchorage and you've been injured in a crash, Mulholland Chiropractic Center, LLC can help. We've been working with auto injury patients for many years and we can probably help you, too. Give our office a call today at (907) 770-5700 for an appointment or consultation.

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