TEMPORAL MANDIBULAR DYSFUNCTION BY ANDREA HENLEY 

Many people become interested in BioAcoustics in order to help themselves. After six years of facial pain due to whiplash stemming from an accident, I decided to try the sounds on those facial muscles that I knew were damaged. I went through a series of tests of frequencies of the masseter, lateral pterygold, medical pterygold, and digastric. Many muscles can be affected in the head and neck, because the trigeminal nerve (5 fingers around the entire face) covers most of the front half of the head.
The neck is usually involved in facial pain, because the nerves to the face overlay the nerves to the spine. Stimuli coming from one nerve usually causes irritation of other nearby nerves. After a long period of pain, the switching stations --called ganglions--become confused. They can send pain down the wrong path to non-related areas. The neck in connected to the shoulders, etc. Many doctors tell their patients that shoulder pain is not related to the face. It is, in most cases.

A muscle spasm shuts off circulation and causes a build up of lactic, pyrucic and hyaluronic acid. This buildup can cause a further break down of muscle tissue. Muscle tissue is made primarily of calcium/magnesium ribbons. That is why magnesium is such a good natural muscle relaxer; it gives the muscle essential nourishment which enables it to relax.

In about 15-20 seconds of my receiving the appropriate sound, the pain in my facial muscles ceased. Within 2 minutes of receiving the sounds, the congestion in my muscle was gone. I tried this on my TMD dentist and on several patients. All sufferers who tried the sounds felt a difference in the facial muscles.



          

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