What is TMJ? Learn about TMJ and How Massage Can Help You!
TMJ dysfunction: pain in and around your jaw with movement of the joint.

Your Muscles of Mastication, ie. chewing
Muscles that close your jaw: masseter, temporalis and medial pterigoid. Muscles that open your jaw: lateral pterigoid.








Can these TMJ muscles be massaged? Yes. I show you a gentle TMJ massage in the video below. The Pterigoid muscles are harder to get to, as they mostly require going inside the mouth through intra-oral massage. All of these muscles should be massaged when treating TMJ issues.
Trigger Points Refer Pain: Masseter TMJ Muscle
The masseter jaw muscle is the strongest muscle in the body!



- Upper and lower back teeth
- Adjacent gums
- Front of face
- Under eye
- Pain may feel like sinusitis
- Jaw
- Deep ear pain
- Ringing in the ear
- Roaring sound in the ear
- Itching in the ear
Relax Your Jaw
Sometimes your jaw just hurts or is regularly tight and sore… Is this you or…
TMJ Self Massage The Masseter
TMJ Trigger Point Massage, the masseter I’ve been there many times, jaw pain hurts! But…