massage for TMJ (jaw), Face, scalp in everett, wa

TMJ & Intraoral Massage

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When can jaw (TMJ), face, and scalp massage help?

TMJ = TEMPOROMANDIBULAR JOINT OR your JAW JOINT

Your entire body is covered in muscles, including your face, and those muscles can accumulate tension and discomfort due to overuse, injury, and the stressors of everyday life. 

Like all struggles with pain, it’s rarely one thing in isolation. If you feel pain around your face or jaw often from injury, stress, clenching, dental work, etc. those are pretty clear reasons to receive facial/jaw and intraoral massage.

Other reasons to receive massage around the face, jaw, intraoral and scalp may be more surprising, and can include:

● Headaches and migraines of all kinds
● People managing post concussion syndrome 
● TBI sufferers
● Facial swelling/pain
● Teeth grinding
● Sinus/allergy pain or discomfort 
● Neck and upper shoulder pain, especially pain at the upper neck and base of the skull
● Pain at the front of the neck going down to the clavicle and chest
● Ear congestion or pain that isn’t related to an active infection
● Vertigo 
● Tinnitus

If you have questions about your specific circumstance please feel free to Contact Me.

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Why include intraoral massage?

If you aren't comfortable receiving intraoral massage yet or you think you may never. That's okay! There is still a lot of work we can do from the outside of the jaw.

If you are interested, addressing the intraoral muscles takes neck, facial and TMJ work to another level with the ability to address muscles on both sides, and accessing muscles and structures that aren’t available to us doing external work.

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How is intraoral massage performed?

Before we begin we'll discuss how to communicate if you need to change or stop the work being done ahead of time, so we are never doing anything painful, uncomfortable or unmanageable for any reason. 

I would rarely work exclusively on the inside of your mouth. We would begin with chest, neck, face, scalp, and jaw massage and possibly MLD, before moving to intraoral massage. In preparation to begin you'll be lying face up on the massage table, we'll get you comfortable, cozy and fully covered to the upper chest. For the intraoral portion I will be wearing gloves and a mask.