What is Neuromuscular Dentistry? I Hate Headaches.org has the answers.

This website is all about utilizing neuromuscular dentistry to treat and prevent migraines and tension type headaches. I invite you to roam the site and follow the links to learn how the teeth, jaws and jaw muscles along with the trigeminal nerve are partially or completely connected to chronic pain. Neuromuscular dentistry can help a wide variety of chronic pains, treat sleep apnea and snoring

Oral Appliances for treating Parkinson's and other movement disorders

The utilization of using Neuromuscular orthotics to treat or eliminate migraines, tension-type headaches and chronic sinus and facial pain is well established. The correction of postural distortion is also well documentd however the treatment of movement disorders has been primarily anectdotal.That is beginning to change, the correction of oral and pharyngeal reflexes combined into neuromuscular

TENSION-TYPE HEADACHES AND MIGRAINES OFTEN HAVE COMMON CO-MORBIDITIES OF TEMPOROMANDIBULAR DISORDERS, MYOFASCIAL PAIN AND FORWARD HEAD POSITION

A new article "Pure tension-type headache versus tension-type headache in the migraineur." in Curr Pain Headache Rep. 201:465-9.0 Dec;14(6) (PubMed abstract below) looks at primary headache disorders. What is most interesting is that they state that differential diagnosis is made difficult to the frequent presence of co-morbidities including temporomandibular disorders and myofascial pain.I

TMJ disorders and Neck Pain are closely linked. New study shows mechanical and kinematic movement of neck is altered by neck pain.

A recent article (Arch Phys Med Rehabil. 2010 Dec;91(12):1884-90.) showed changes in neck function when pain was present. Neck pain is one of the most frequently helped conditions during neuromuscular treatment of TMD disorders. If treating the pain can return normal function this would be an incredible finding. The article concludes "Velocity and smoothness of cervical motion were more