Condition · Jaw

TMJ dysfunction

Your jaw is one of the busiest joints you own, and it does not work alone — it hangs off your skull, and your skull sits on your neck. When stress keeps the teeth together and the head drifts forward of the shoulders, the muscles that close the jaw never fully switch off. The aching, the clicking, the headaches: that is a jaw that has forgotten how to rest, on a neck that stopped supporting it.