HI all my wonderful TMJoiners! I'm Priya Mistry the TMJ Doc and today's video is about a product
that I'm super excited about! This has been in the works for a little while now and I'm very excited
to show it to you guys. Iif you've been watching my channel regularly, you know that I often
recommend self massages or muscle releases to help release and relieve the pain caused by muscles in
the head, neck, and jaw. Oftentimes I use my fingertips or my knuckles to sort of relieve
these muscles and release them and to release the trigger points and the knots and the tense,
tight bands of tissue that form in these muscles. Now - however - I have these wonderful rollers
that actually get the job done! So this video is about how to use these rollers effectively
to release those muscles - particularly the masseter and the temporalis muscles. So continue
watching until the end to see how to do this successfully! Before getting into it, be sure
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to find people who are experiencing pain or TMJ dysfunction! For those of you who don't know me,
I'm a General Dentist with a practice in Vancouver, Washington where we are dedicated
to taking care of those with TMJ Disorders! So let's get right into it. Let's first start by
taking a good look at these rollers. So here's one of them - it has my logo on it and it's my
favorite color pink of course. So this is what it looks like! It has a larger end and a smaller end,
so if you have like a very small face this end might be more appropriate for you. And if you
have larger masseter muscles - which some of us do - this larger end might be good for you. I'm just
going to be using the larger end for demonstration purposes. It's just easier to see. So let's start
with massaging the masseter muscle! This masseter muscle - everyone can benefit from massaging it
even if you don't have TMD pain! This muscle is the largest and most powerful chewing muscle. It
can generate a lot of force! We use this masseter muscle for chewing and for clenching activity. It
starts at the zygomatic bone - so your cheekbone - and it inserts down into the border of the
mandible - the jawbone. When the masseter muscle contracts, it elevates the jawbone - brings it
up - causing the mouth to close. Fun fact guys - the masseter muscle is the strongest muscle
based on its weight! Think about that guys! This muscle is strong! Many of us clench and
grind our teeth a lot and this muscle gets quite a workout frequently. Because of how much use it,
this muscle tends to form tight bands of tissue or knots of tissue or even trigger points that
can be quite painful and lead to jaw pain and headaches. To release this muscle effectively
with these rollers, I'd recommend biting your back teeth gently together to start with.
If you bite your back teeth gently together, your jaw has some support. Then go ahead and
place the rollers right underneath your cheekbones - so right underneath this cheekbone right here.
Then press inwards and roll all the way down to the angle and border of the jaw.
Repeat that four or five times. So I'm going to
go ahead and demonstrate that for you so I'm going to bite down in the back
pressure inwards here
ah that feels good!
So what's great is that these rollers are kind of cool too! So if you like
heat instead of cold to sort of help relax those muscles, you can kind of
wrap these in a warm towel beforehand. But I think the cold actually feels really good
for me. Everybody's a little different and responds differently to heat versus cold,
and if you're worried about wrinkles or your face sagging you can always go the opposite way! So I
have gotten some comments about that so you could bite down in the back and then start down here...
and go all the way up to your cheekbone. Either which way, whichever way you go it feels really
good and it'll help to release those knots or tight bands of tissue that build up in
that muscle so you can do that four or five times, four or five times a day. It can truly
help! Next let's release the temporalis muscle. This is also a powerful muscle
and it's actually fan shaped. So it's kind of a big muscle it starts on the temporal bone, which
is a skull bone, and it inserts into the coronoid process. That's a little bony projection on our
jawbone. So if you take a look at the image, it shows exactly how that muscle looks, where it
starts and where it inserts. When the temporalis muscle contracts, it actually moves the jaw up,
back, and it can move it side to side. So the temporalis muscle is a key player in chewing
and clenching and grinding activity. Grinding is usually more lateral movements while clenching is
just staying still like that. Now this muscle - the temporalis - is thinner and it's spread
over a thin skull bone - the temporal bone. The masseter muscle is meatier and it's spread over
the dense jawbone, so the amount of pressure that you use with the temporalis muscle is
going to be less than the amount of pressure you used when massaging or rolling over the masseter
muscle. When massaging the temporalis muscle with these rollers, I like to start at the
coronoid process. So to sort of visualize where that is - you're going to take your
finger and you'll go an inch in front of your jaw joint. So your jaw joint, if you open and close,
you'll feel a little bony projection out this way. Go an inch in front of that,
and that's likely where your coronoid process is. When you go an inch in front of that and you open,
you'll feel a bony knob there too! That's your coronoid process. Once you locate the coronoid
process, you can start there. So you'll take your rollers and you'll put some light pressure
where you visualize that coronoid process to start. And then you're going to go up
and back and as you're going back, visualize the fan shape of that muscle. It's a big muscle!
What I'll do is I'll start at that coronoid process and I'll go back and I'll go up and
then I'll go a little further back the next time and a little further back the next time.
And I'll keep doing that. And you can actually go as far back as back here. I don't know how well
you guys can see that. I'm trying to demonstrate it, but again this is a big muscle so keep the
image I have of this muscle up - kind of keep that in your mind as you're massaging it. Now I'll
do one side while I hold my hair, which is very unruly today, so that you can see! So I'm starting
an inch or so in front of my jaw joint and I'm going to go up and back. I'm putting pressure
inwards. I like to do both of these at the same time so I'm getting my right side and my left
side, but for demonstration purposes so you guys can really see how big this muscle is - I'm just
going to be doing one at a time right now. So with this one you can do it four or five times
again four or five times a day and this also helps to really relieve the tension headaches that come
along with TMD. It just breaks up those bands of tight tissue. When you're going at this angle,
you're running with the fibers of the muscle so if we and if we want to run kind of against
the fibers or perpendicular to the fibers if you will you can actually start sort of
near the top of your head and go down and back along the widest part of that muscle.
At the end, once you've used these rollers you can kind of ditch them and then you can
take your pointer and middle fingers and just get the front part of that muscle. You'll go
right above your cheekbone and right behind your orbital bone, there's a little depression there.
So right behind your eye bone and right above your cheekbone, there's a little depression.
Press gently inwards and rub forward five times and backward five times. This is very relieving
as well! So with the rollers and then with your fingers - you're really getting the entirety
of this muscle. All right my friends - so as I mentioned before I'm super excited about these
rollers and if you'd like to purchase them, you can find them on my office website which
I've linked above and below. They do come in a set of two, so if you place one order,
you'll get both of these. Let's take a moment to go over my new segment "Highlighting a TMJoiner".
This comment is from CS Fraser and he commented on my video called "Relax Your Jaw With Me",
which I've linked above and below. CS Frazier said: "The right side of my jaw bothers me most
This has helped me so much I saved this video thank you". Thank YOU, CS Frazier! I'm so glad
you found this helpful and I'm so happy that you saved the video. Again - Saving, Subscribing,
doing all those things pushes these videos out into the interwebs which truly helps our community
grow, which could then help people experience less pain and less TMJ dysfunction. So that's
really it my friends! Again, I'm Dr. Priya Mistry and I hope you found this video helpful. If so,
please feel free to Like, Subscribe, and Share with your family and friends. For TMJ pain
relief from the comfort of your own home, be sure to check out my free PDF guide called "3
steps to TMJ(D) Pain Relief" which is linked on my office website. Questions and comments