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If you are living with chronic head, neck and facial pain, taking more than four painkillers a week, visited more doctors than you can count, then the pain might not be in your head! More often than not, this is caused by a misaligned jaw.
If this sounds like you, I would like to help! I use the latest techniques to treat your pain (without drugs) by gently realigning the muscles and nerves in your Temporomandibular Joint (TMJ). This is a small joint that can cause big problems, when it’s out of place.
If you are reading this website, then you are probably already suffering chronic pain in the form of headaches. Please read through the pages on this website to see the stories from patients who are now “pain-free” after years of suffering headaches, TMJ noise/ pain, ear congestion and dizziness. Symptoms and pain they didn’t know were caused by problems with their TMJ. It has been the most rewarding experience of my career, to help people reclaim their lives, by relieving their pain.
If any of the symptoms described here are what you are experiencing, call our office on (07) 3711-4999 to schedule a free consultation. DO NOT live another day with pain that is affecting the quality of your life. Let myself, or one of my team, see if we can relieve your symptoms, so that you can live life the way you are meant to.
The National Institutes of Health define a headache, as pain or discomfort in your head, scalp or neck. I would expand this definition a bit to include the face and jaw, as well. Headaches come in several forms. Sometimes it’s just a general tension headache, that can be due to constricted muscles, or blood flow in your head and neck. It can be caused by stress, or a poor sleep position. The pain is usually dull, or feels like your head is being squeezed.
Other headaches, like cluster or migraine headaches, are more serious. Migraines are severe headaches (that usually) are accompanied by nausea, or a sensitivity to light. Cluster headaches are very sharp and painful, can appear for a month or two, then go away and come back.
Sometimes headaches are a syndrome by themselves. But very often, they are a symptom of something else, and the true cause of the pain, in your head, could be problems in your jaw, but more specifically, in the Temporomandibular Joint (TMJ).
The area of your face, head and neck has many, many veins, arteries and capillaries. Even a small cut in your scalp can bleed profusely. There also hundreds of nerves in this area – and the reason why the softest touch or kiss, can register intense sensation.
So imagine - when a joint that connects to ‘all of’ these systems (i.e. blood, nerves and musculoskeletal) – is not aligned properly, the result is pain (i.e. stiffness, aching or sharp).
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