The TMJ Healing Plan: Ten Steps to Relieving Headaches, Neck Pain and Jaw Disorders

I bought this as an OT treating TMD. This has great information and explanations about all aspects impacting the causes of TMJ. Even good ideas to try and begin healing yourself if you cannot get to a therapist who understands the TMJ.

This book is an excellent resource for TMJ sufferers. It is easily understandable and contains much useful information. I found the recommendations on sleep positions and orthopedic pillows particularly helpful. Despite seeing many dentists for my clenching and grinding problem, none ever inquired about my sleep position or mentioned that sleeping on one's stomach is the worst thing for TMJ. Since following some of the recommendations in this book, I have reduced my clenching and grinding at night. Now I don't even wear a mouth guard at night. This book belongs in every dentist's office. Had I read this book years ago, it would have saved me money spent on costly treatments that didn't work.

The book is good to have. I want to share my tmj treatment experience here and hoping anyone who gets here and have similar concern know he/she is not along with the discomfort and hoping my experience can help them make better treatment decision. I was a longtime night time teeth grinder; however I did not really feel any pain except occasional jaw soreness. I do have occasionally headache from working in front of computer too long, which emphasis how important exercising and good posture are. About two years ago I got an expensive $2000 splint made hoping it would save my teeth from futher grinding and clenching, and putting my jaw in a more relax position. Sadly, now I have more discomfort in my jaw and i started to experience pain in my left side molar. I was also told that I developed a open bite now where my front teeth donot touch. It has been a very frustrating experience and has cause more pain and discomfort both physically and mentally after spening over $3,000 (including all x ray, diagnosis and adjustment fees). I spent so much time analyzing whether I have done the right thing for myself and it become a stress for me to wear the splint. If I wear it, i dont' feel comfortable and thinking it was the cause of my jaw joint to move(the reason for developing the open bite), but if i don't wear, i am afraid of loosing my teeth from grinding. The TMJ specialist I am seeing wants me to get braces to correct the bite now or getting equilibration adjustment from him to correct the bite (which he would grind down my back teeth significantly where I might experience teeth sensativity to make the front teeth meet). At this point, i don't want to proceed further with any invasive treatment. I do feel a great asymmetry on my right and left side body so I am focuing on balancing my posture and muscle. meanwhile I am reinforcing myself to remember the proper way to rest my tongue and keep teeth apart, lip closed and swallow correctly. A lot of dentists and physicians do not understand or care about how our posture and daily movement can create unbalance in our body which might be one of the causes for our discomfort. Even though we might be able to find some helpfule information on the internet, this book has done a good job to put a lot of helpful information together to help us better understand our symptoms. I would recommend this book to anyone who have tmj related concern. Please anyone explore conservative options first and get a qualified independent second opinion before doing any irreversible or extremely expensive procedure. It is very frustrating to become worse than you started after spending a lot of money and I hope everyone can avoid that and get rid of the pain and discomfort.

This is the third self help TMJ book I've purchased, it is by far the most in depth and helpful of any I've read to date. Suffering from chronic jaw and neck pain for over 5 years this book quickly pointed out some habits I was doing that continued to aggravate my condition. It's a wonder (and disappointment) that none of the 4 PT's I've seen during this period had the information that's in this book. If they had, I would have saved lots of money and been on the road to recovery much sooner. I will no doubt give a copy to the one I'm seeing now! What I like about this book is that it very specifically addresses bad habits that can promote these ailments and the correlating correct habits that can prevent them. As I went thru it I very much see why the author does her one hour office evaluation prior to treatment. As I self diagnosed my bad habits through this book it was eye opening to see that changing a few things that before seemed non-related (such as sleep position) could in fact dramatically affect these conditions. Doing physical therapy for one hour a day will not correct the bad habits that may persist for the other 23! I cannot thank the author enough for her efforts to publish this book. I hope it is widely read by suffers and clinicians who are trying to help those in pain suffering from this condition.

Excellent and very thorough resource. The best and most comprehensive information that I have found on TMJ/TMD. The ten steps are extremely useful, practical and can be immediately applied by anyone suffering the debilitating effects of this often misunderstood disorder.

After over 2 years of chronic head and jaw pain, three different anti-depressants, 5 consultants, £500 spent on 'I can really help you private therapists' at last I found the answers I need in order to get back my quality of life. Time and commitment is needed to read, understand, and work out your own treatment plan and then to stick to it. I have needed to make fundamental changes to what I eat, how I sit, stand, and sleep and to work out a routine of exercises but after only 4 weeks the improvement has been massive. If I get a bad day I can problem solve and try to reduce the trigger which has caused the increased pain. Why isn't help like this available on the NHS? This book is not for you if you just want to pop a pill to make the pain go away but for me it has enabled me to take control of the pain I have been suffering and do something about it. Absolutely invaluable.

I have had major TMJ symptoms for many many years and have been labeled as a very bad case by many practitioners. This book helped my more than any practitioner to date because it helped me help myself and understand why symptoms build to an acute state. Am so thankful to have found it!

I don't now what to say... Some time i feel good some time.. It hurt the same... So 😔 but this book....contain each and every topic.. And way how to cure it

amazing book. Great /easy solutions. went to see sooo many specialists to try to find solutions to my TMJ pain; tis book helped me the most !