Bob and Brad the two most famous
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hi I'm Bob Shrum physical therapist
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we can see that very good ok today we're
going to talk about top three exercises
for TMJ temporal mandibular well
disorders actually people call it TMJ
and that's actually TMJ is the joint
it's the name of the joint yeah and
temporal mandibular disorders or what
happens to it if there's a problem right
right so we just did a video on how to
do a kind of a massage to the muscles
around the joint that's something to
give you immediate relief right now if
you're trying to you know correct this
for the long haul didn't even want to do
the exercises but don't do these
exercises and think well they didn't
work I don't feel any better they're
going to it's going to take a while for
them to help right so a number of
repetitions
us will do contract and strengthen and
make sure changes that are going to help
very now the joint itself is right here
if we pull it off here you can see shred
pointing it up there how we look at Lani
well he's not saying anything that's
always bad wise not say anything oh yeah
that looks pretty good sure all right
and what I said we did the massages of
the muscles around it but now we're
gonna do some exercises to help strength
of that joint and to help put it in the
right position sure okay so we're first
going to start off with Brad what you're
going to do is you're the first exercise
you can take your tongue and this is
called the resting position it's the
right position putting your jaw in the
right position you can take your tongue
and you put it on a roof of your mouth
behind the front teeth all right yep all
right there it take a couple deep
breaths with good posture by the way
mm-hmm always good posture shoulders
back head up and then go ahead and open
your mouth six times with the tongue in
that place okay I'll do it from the
profile
okay we don't need to do it I feel like
a guppy yeah alright that's the exercise
number one the exercise number two is
going to start strengthening the
stabilizing the muscles okay so you take
you two thumbs and put it underneath
your chin and you're going to push down
like you're opening the jaw but you're
not letting the jaw but you're gonna
push down I mean the jaw is pushing down
the thumbs are pushing up okay so so I'm
going to try and go but right you're
trying to be like yeah so the jobs going
that way the fingers are pushing up so
it's an isometric yep
six second hold six times don't let your
head come on like good posture at
posture okay then you're going to put
your hand on the side and and you're
going to push on your jaw and not let it
go out as y'all can go like this so one
two three four five six but actually
that the force is here now not up right
on the bottom on it we call the mandible
right so you could actually do it here
to make sure you're not I'm you could do
the re but just for demonstration yeah
I'm going to push that way my hands
maintaining it
another isometric and then we're going
to do the other side 1 2 or 3 4 5 6 1 2
3 4 5 6 ok the last three I'm it's
actually 1 but it's what they're all
grouped into one are for posture Blee
drop the position of your head neck and
jaw really affect the TMJ sure if you
have the head forward posture it is
affecting your ability to swallow and
it's affecting the position of the TMJ
and how it works right so you really
want to work to the point where you're
getting your head you know your ears
lined up with your shoulders your head
straight up in alright your back basic
posture posture that we've talked about
many other nice so the first one they
actually just takes your hands and make
like a collar lock the fingers and then
you're holding the skin and then you're
bending forward like this and what
that's doing is it's stretchy he's
stretching the muscles right here under
the occiput here right where the hip
neck meets the head so
actually you can keep together bandages
and foreign like that you feel that
stretch up yeah okay
the next one is chin tucks which we've
done many times so yeah go ahead
so it's like you're backing your head up
and again you're stretching this and
you're getting your neck and head into
the right position right basic posture
strong pressure off pressure on pusher
ah like Brad always says it's like
someone's throwing a pie in your face
yeah
you're not going like this right you're
not going like this you're going back
right okay and the last one is shoulder
squeezes which we've done a million
times are putting your shoulders to
bleeds together and trying to put them
in your back pockets yep so I must have
gotten a little high huh it's amazing
nothing I could heal on you raise the
camera yeah so these pastoral exercises
covers so many things as they do even
jaw neck arms so if you're having two
key mkay problems try those things first
you know those are things you can do
yourself and then if you have troubles
you know you want to see a dentist who's
you know trained in this orthodontist
Tercel right right right they can make
you splints and there's pillows and all
the things you'd like to avoid so maybe
these are going to help and avoid that
give this a try and I'll link towards
our last video here at the end of the
one we did on massage so they all go
together don't they bless they do yep
you agree all right dude all right
thanks for watching that's incredible
Bob you could be a ventriloquist
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