Jaw pain is another complaint after an injury, At Daytona Chiropractic Clinic we accept patients in the Daytona Beach, Port Orange, Holly Hill, South Daytona, Ormond Beach, Daytona Beach Shores, Wilber By the Sea, Ponce Inlet, and New Smyrna Beach area.
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Jaw or temporomandibular joint pain is common after an auto injury, even when there is no direct trauma to the jaw. The condition can be confusing to health care providers, as, oftentimes, the jaw symptoms don't appear immediately after the injury, sometimes developing weeks or even months later.
New research over the last 10 years suggests that jaw pain after an auto injury can originate in the neck. When your neck is injured, the pain signals travel from the spine to your brain stem. Here, nerves from many different parts of the body converge together before they pass to the pain centers of your brain. The nerves of your jaw connect in the neck with pain receptors from your spine. And since the jaw is experiencing pain, it can cause the muscles in the area to tense up, causing more pain in the neck.
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