What do you see in Facebook conversations
Remember, one power of social networking is to help people by sharing your knowledge, experience and advice. On Facebook and on Twitter, it is not unusual for some one to complain or ask questions about a symptom. For instance, recently a friend told me about how one of his Facebook friends went in for an inconclusive MRI because of persistent headaches. The friend’s doctor has suggested it as a diagnostic measure because the headaches had been unexplainable.
My friend posted on their wall the question: “Do you also have jaw pain or grinding teeth at night?” My friend was wondering if the cause of her headaches may have been neuromuscular, a TMJ joint disorder. They knew about it from knowing a neuromuscular dentist… me.
This is why I think it is important to reach out to everyone I know and remind them of some important points. They are:
1) TMJ is hard to diagnose, especially for general practitioners. It is easy to prescribe pain pills for pain with diagnosis or order expensive testing which, as in this case, was inconclusive.
2) TMJ is a jaw joint disorder and pain is common in that area, but symptoms can range from migraine headaches, to shoulder pain, to back pain and more. If a head, neck or upper back pain cannot be identified, it very well might be linked to TMJ.
3) Neuromuscular dentists treat TMJ non-invasively.
4) Ask a friend who is showing symptoms to consider a visit me for an TMJ consultation. Worst case, we rule it out!
So, I encourage you to listen to what your friends are saying on social media and know the symptoms of TMJ. If you see someone suffering and frustrated because their doctors can’t figure it out or they are struggling with unnecessary pain medications, please refer them to me. At the very least, we can rule out TMJ for them.
My friend posted on their wall the question: “Do you also have jaw pain or grinding teeth at night?” My friend was wondering if the cause of her headaches may have been neuromuscular, a TMJ joint disorder. They knew about it from knowing a neuromuscular dentist… me.
This is why I think it is important to reach out to everyone I know and remind them of some important points. They are:
1) TMJ is hard to diagnose, especially for general practitioners. It is easy to prescribe pain pills for pain with diagnosis or order expensive testing which, as in this case, was inconclusive.
2) TMJ is a jaw joint disorder and pain is common in that area, but symptoms can range from migraine headaches, to shoulder pain, to back pain and more. If a head, neck or upper back pain cannot be identified, it very well might be linked to TMJ.
3) Neuromuscular dentists treat TMJ non-invasively.
4) Ask a friend who is showing symptoms to consider a visit me for an TMJ consultation. Worst case, we rule it out!
So, I encourage you to listen to what your friends are saying on social media and know the symptoms of TMJ. If you see someone suffering and frustrated because their doctors can’t figure it out or they are struggling with unnecessary pain medications, please refer them to me. At the very least, we can rule out TMJ for them.
posted by Dr. Amy Norman at
1:32 PM
2 Comments:
So many people could be helped with their pain if they just knew where to go. I had been diagnosed with TMJ in my early 20's but the only option then was surgery to break my jaw and wire it shut for 8 weeks! I said no thanks i'd live with it. I did that for 25 years with symptoms that ranged from every time I opened my mouth my jaw would click so loud you could hear it across the room to headaches neck and shoulder pain. Then the pain got worse and when I tried to eat my jaw would actually dislocate! I did my research and found out about nuero-muscular dentistry and decided I had nothing to lose in finding out about new treatments for TMJ. The trained neuro muscular dentist is extremely thorough and understanding of what i had lived with for a very long time. I got my mouth orthodic,(like a retainer) and within a few weeks my jaw no longer clicked or dislocated and the headaches that I had were gone. I have now been pain free for over two years and would never allow a any other than a neuromuscular dentist treat me. I have just recently moved to the area and located Dr. Norman through the internet. Her staff is wonderful and they helped me put together a long term strategy to manage my TMJ.
I think its great to diagnosis and detects main defects in the early stage...
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