INSPIRATION & EDUCATION

You can turn to Ayurveda to understand your reactions, your current state of health and wellness, and how, moving into the rest of your year, you can slowly but dynamically improve your health. Ayurveda is a pattern, a predictable way to see the body and understand your reactions to everything.

Soft tissue imbalances of the jaw are extremely common. And whereas the solutions to jaw symptoms are often not that complicated, in the current culture, finding the solutions is often quite hard. Manual massage therapy of the jaw and neck eases conditions such as TMJ pain, clicking and popping, grinding, ear pain and ear fullness, headaches, migraines, pain under the chin and on the anterior neck, cervical dysfunction, and a loss of range of motion of the jaw and neck.

The mechanical loading of soft tissue changes the region’s biochemistry and facilities slide and glide—microcirculation—between structures. Physical medicine restores biomechanics and is as physically important as eating healthy or your daily workout routineBut as an Eastern medicine practitioner, I don’t stop there. Having trained in Eastern medicine (clinical Ayurveda) I recognize the emotional impact on physical tissues.