Are you experiencing pain or tenderness of your jaw, aching pain in and around your ear, difficulty chewing or pain while chewing, aching facial pain, or difficulty moving the jaw joint and the surrounding muscles? If any of these symptoms sound familiar, you may have Temporomandibular Joint Dysfunction (TMD). The good news is that physical therapy can help treat TMD for good!

The temporomandibular joint acts like a sliding hinge, connecting your jawbone to your skull. Dysfunction can lead to the symptoms listed above, and can cause pain, headaches and difficulties that greatly decrease your quality of life.

In this video, Rebecca Petrosino, Partner & Director at PTSMC Fairfield, talks about how physical therapy can help treat TMD and demonstrates a number of ways PTs may approach treatment, including manual manipulation of the joint and muscles and even dry needling of the affected joint and muscles.

Treatment for TMD is offered in our clinics in Fairfield, Orange and Waterbury, Connecticut. Learn more about PTSMC clinics here: https://ptsmc.com/locations/