Q. Why look at the jaw joint as well, rather than the neck alone?
Because the cervical vertebrae are not the only structure holding the head up. When the jaw joint and the upper neck are out of alignment, load keeps accumulating in the neck.
📝 Detailed Answer
The causes given for cervical disc problems include misalignment of the skull and jaw joint, a cervical curve flattened by smartphone use, posture in which the head sits forward of the body's midline, muscle and ligament too weak to support the neck vertebrae, work that repeats the same movement, and an outside impact such as a traffic accident that was never treated properly.
Several of these often act together. Releasing the neck alone brings relief for now, but if the cause remains the same spot starts hurting again.
At Jinju Dangdang Korean Medicine Clinic we examine the movement of the neck and, alongside it, left-right imbalance of the jaw joint, the cervical curve, imbalance of the shoulders, spine and pelvis, and leg length asymmetry.
Depending on what we find, we use Chuna manual therapy to work on alignment, pharmacopuncture or bee venom pharmacopuncture for the sites of inflammation and pain, and herbal medicine alongside where needed.
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Injun Eo
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