Question 1

Can headaches with no cause found in tests be related to the jaw?

Accepted Answer

They can. The muscles that move the jaw attach widely to the temples and cheeks, so when those muscles stiffen, the area is felt directly as head pain.

Question 2

How is tinnitus (ringing in the ears) related to the jaw and neck muscles?

Accepted Answer

Some cases are related. If the volume of the sound changes when you move your jaw or change your neck posture, it may be the type where muscles and joints are involved.

Question 3

What causes should be ruled out first in dizziness?

Accepted Answer

Dizziness is a symptom with some causes that need urgent checking. If you have even one of the signs below, go to the emergency room or see a neurologist before coming to us.

Question 4

Why do you also check the jaw for neck and shoulder pain?

Accepted Answer

Patients tell us that every afternoon the back of their neck stiffens and their head throbs. A massage or physical therapy makes that day comfortable, but by the next day it's back.

Question 5

Why look at the whole body when jaw treatment keeps going back?

Accepted Answer

Patients tell us their jaw feels stiff and their neck and shoulders are always tight, and even after several places treated just those spots, it soon came back.

Question 6

For chronic headaches and neck pain with no cause found, what do you look at again?

Accepted Answer

Patients tell us their headaches and neck pain have gone on for years, but scans of the head and neck only showed "nothing abnormal." Medicine helps for a while, then it comes back, over and over, and many come to us thinking this is their last try.

Question 7

When neck and shoulder stiffness leads to headaches, how do you look at it?

Accepted Answer

If you have a sudden, severe headache unlike any you've had before, a stiff neck with fever, or weakness in your arms or legs or slurred speech, the emergency room or a neurologist comes first.

Question 8

With tremors and tinnitus but normal test results, where do you start checking?

Accepted Answer

If the tremor is only on one side, or you have weakness, slurred speech, or one side of your face won't move, see a neurologist first.

Headaches · Dizziness · Tinnitus