Jaw pain is a fairly common condition experienced by many people after a car accident, and it can be confusing for some health practitioners to find the source of the problem. Complicating the issue, very often you won't experience TMJ symptoms until many weeks or months after the original injury.
Permian Basin Accident & Injury Centers has helped many individuals with jaw pain after an injury, and the medical literature explains what triggers these types of symptoms. During a auto collision, the tissues in your neck are commonly stretched or torn, causing ligament, muscle, or nerve injury. This can obviously cause pain in the neck and back, but since your central nervous system is one functioning unit, irritation of the nerves can cause pain in other parts of your body.
For example, with radicular pain, irritation of a nerve can cause prickling or pins and needles in the arm or hand. Similarly, it can affect parts of your body above the injured tissues, like your head and jaw. Headaches after auto accident are very common because of neck injury, and the jaw works the same way. Permian Basin Accident & Injury Centers sees this very commonly in our Midland, Odessa office.
Research indicates that the root of many jaw or TMJ symptoms starts in the neck and that treatment of the underlying neck injury can resolve the secondary headaches or jaw symptoms. The trick to resolving these symptoms is simple: Permian Basin Accident & Injury Centers will work to restore your spinal column back to health, decreasing the inflammatory reaction, treating the injured tissues, and removing the irritation to the nerves in your spine.
Permian Basin Accident & Injury Centers finds that jaw and headache issues often resolve once we restore your spine to its healthy condition.
If you live in Midland, Odessa and you've been hurt in a crash, Permian Basin Accident & Injury Centers can help. We've been treating auto injury patients for many years and we can most likely help you, too. Give our office a call today at (432) 262-3219 for an appointment or consultation.
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