San Francisco TMJ Treatment
What Exactly Is That?

Maybe you have jaw tendonitis as part of your Temporomandibular Joint (TMJ) issue, maybe not. The pain causing dynamic is essentially the same.

If you clench your jaw, grind your teeth, have pain in the jaw and joint, clicking, and get headaches from all this, and if you want to make all this go away, it is important to deal with the source of the problem, and it is important to REVERSE the dynamic of increasing pain and tightness.

If you don't reverse the dynamic, you will continue to have TMJ symptoms.

What Kind Of Work Does
The Tendonitis Expert
Do For TMJ?

The specific TMJ work we will do is exterior, and interior.

Exterior is some shoulder muscles, neck muscles including anterior work (deep muscles in the front of the neck, only the -very- experienced should work those), and various muscles on skull, face and jaw.

Interior is, with latex gloves on for hygiene and fingernail purposes, the muscles, connective tissues, and inner surfaces of the mouth and jaw. Probably with various subtle work on the various bone structures.

This involves opening the jaw, having someone (me) basically cradle the skull/neck and have a finger or two inside the mouth. The interior structures are generally very tender anyway, and MUCH more so depending on the severity of the TMJ, so the quality of the touch and intention required to navigate the sensation is very...intense, acute, and precise.

I will show you how to do this yourself. Daily self care at home is vital if you want to get rid of TMJ. It doesn't have to be daily forever, but we will make the ecology of the joints and surrounding muscle and connective tissue happy and healthy again.

We will also investigate other triggers for this constant tension. Injury, and emotion, and stress can all play a role.

San Francisco Dentists and TMJ Treatment

This means that I'm not going to deal specifically with alignment and spacing of the jaw structures, mouthguards, bite protectors, etc.

If you are already dealing with a TMJ dentist in San Francisco, our work will complement each other and you will get even faster results.

If you are under the care of a dentist and your TMJ got better but is now holding steady at a certain level of pain and problem, now is a perfect time to work with me.

What I Can't Help With.

Some people are just getting TMJ, or it is mild, or moderate, or severe. Some people have suffered for months. Some for years and decades.

For the vast majority of cases, I am confident that we can get you pain free or close to it in a surprisingly short amount of time.

And, there is a range within I might not be able to do much. If you have bone literally grinding on bone, I can't directly do anything about that.

If you jaw easily pops out of joint, dislocates, or locks in a bony way as opposed to a muscle clench way, I likely can't do anything directly about that.

Having said that, I can probably help. It is worth it to have a session or two so we can find out just what the situation is, and how much better you can get.

I've worked with all sorts of 'hopeless' and impossible to help situations, and you would be surprised what can happen even in those situations.

Let's talk.

San Francisco TMJ Treatment
Prices and Location

San Francisco TMJ Treatment is $100 per session.

Professional office at 9th and Folsom in Downtown San Francisco.

Feel free to contact me at 530-917-0083 to make an appointment, ask any questions, and/or for a quick mini-consult.

You can also contact me using the 'contact me' tab in the navigation bar on the left side of this webpage.

I also work from a professional treatment space in Berkeley for Massage Therapy if that is more convenient.



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