Ear to Tampa Bay
The Florida Orchestra Guild’s president Sarah Galligar thanked Joan Jaicks for chairing
and Emily Gillespie for serving as sponsorship chair of A Valentine Tea Party, a guild
JAW DYSFUNCTION
AFFECTS THE
WHOLE BODY
By Deborah Karlan, L.M.T.
The relationship of temporal
mandibular joint pain and
dysfunction is often overlooked
as a key component in headaches,
neck and back pain. Patients with TMJ
symptoms usually experience headaches,
neck pain, and even low back and sacral
pain. Treating TMJ with a splint is
common, but often has limited success
and can exacerbate the condition if the
surrounding muscles are not treated and
contractions released. Looking at the
overall body structure and how it relates
to painful symptoms, I have found that
most patients with face pain, headaches
and jaw problems also have muscular
structural problems.
Tim came for restorative massage with
complaints of headaches, tightness and
pain in his face, head, neck, shoulders and
back. He was disabled, and his pain and
tightness had progressively gotten worse
since he was 10 and a dentist had removed
eight crowded teeth from his mouth. He
had tried various mouth splints without
results. The muscles throughout his body
were in spasm and contracted. He could
barely open his mouth, and eating was
very painful. He had limited range of
motion in his neck and back. I released
muscle tensions starting with light touch
neuromuscular therapy and myofascial
release to his jaw, face and neck. Then I
did cranial sacral therapy to rebalance the
cranial sacral system. We are continuing
sessions twice a week, as we retrain his
body systems and relax his muscles. He is
now ready to again try a dental approach
to resolve his jaw imbalance. Restorative
massage therapy had a relaxing, healing
effect on his whole body.
EDITOR’S NOTE: Deborah Karlan, L.M.T. has
been a licensed therapist in Florida since 1982.
Her Wellness From Within office is at 2158
Drew St. in Clearwater. Her information website is
wellnessfromwithin.yolasite.com. For questions
and appointments and to find harmony and
balance with massage, please call (727) 641-8979.
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