The Connection Between Neck Pain, Headaches and Jaw Pain

the connection between neck pain
headaches and jaw pain these three
conditions can be no fun of someone’s
experiencing all three things like
turning your head over in the car
reading a book preparing food doing your
job test uh picking up your baby from
the crib all these things can be very
cumbersome when you’re experiencing neck
pain concominant with headaches and even
jaw pain they’re all interrelated and
because of the structures of the muscles
and the nerves of the neck a lot of the
nerve inovation of the jaw muscles are
by the fifth cranial nerve the
trigeminal nerve and the muscles in
correspondence with these nerves are
affected when there’s any type of
cervical dysfunction in other words the
bones of the neck are not moving
properly there’s restrictions in the
muscles it can affect the way the nerve
innovates these muscles it can restrict
blood flow to the head causing headaches
it could also cause neck pain lack of
range of motion and could also cause TMJ
problems jaw pain we have lots of
patients that come in that are referred
to by their dentist or orthodontist for
these types of problems pain in the jaw
and pain in the actual neck because of
the close proximity of these muscles and
nerves one will affect the other so it’s
very important that the cervical spine
is clear and there’s no interference to
those muscles there’s no restrictions in
the joints and the ination of the nerves
is not inflamed or irritated when
restoring proper motion to this area it
settles everything down it helps with
the neck pain it helps with the he head
pain and it helps with the jaw pain it’s
very rare for somebody to have headaches
and not have some sort of neck pain or
neck discomfort because of the inter
relationship there any questions about
this video if you’re experiencing any of
those three symptoms or maybe all three
maybe it’s time to get your neck checked
out to see if there’s any type of
cervical dysfun function anything
restricted not moving properly
interfering with the nerve
function