today at the chiro - TMJ Disorder -TemporoMandibular Joint Message Board

pearl1975 · 05-08-2009, 05:13 AM

hi everyone

today I went to a chiropractor. he told me that he sees the main problem with my neck, a compressed nerve is likely.
has anyone been told something like this?
please, reply.

Thelma-Louise · 05-08-2009, 07:46 AM

Personally I have found that chiros will say that the main problem is from the neck or some alignment issue elsewhere in the body and dentists will say that the main problem is with your bite or dysfunctioning of the jaw components. Kind of like the old "what came first" routine - the chicken or the egg. I guess one has to look at both their dental and medical histories, childhood accidents or any type of trauma or injury, etc.and then examine the sequence of events and/or symptoms as they occurred to figure out what really happened to get you to this point. For me it started when my bite was changed and then quickly progressed to my neck and down my spine - for others it may not be clearly evident.

Did your chiro take xrays and show you where the compression is? Or was this a just his opinion based on your symptoms and his examination?

pearl1975 · 05-08-2009, 08:50 AM

no, he didn't take any x-rays. before you ask why I didn't go to someone who takes Xrays, I have to say I live in Hungary, a small, under-developed country, and I was happy even to find a chiro in my area... we don't have TMJ specialists or TMJ clinics, nothing.... but I'm trying to heal.... I live in a country where 5 out of 10 doctors said that my toothache and earache are not related.....
now there is a guy who maked my splints with a special technique to reposition my jaw, and he doesn't understand why my pains haven't stopped. if there really is a problem with my neck _ and that is a possibility, because head MRI and CT and Xray didn't show anything, and I know my posture is bad - than the chiro might be able to solve the problem and the spint can work, too. That's what I hope.

StillHope · 05-08-2009, 07:15 PM

After a major dental work of redoing the crowns on all my back teeth I had a pinched nerve in the neck just few weeks later. My hand was getting numb. Many sessions of chiro for the neck didn't help it. What helped was general exercising which usually helps the body to align itself. As I learned later that dental work was the first step in "sk..ewing my bite". Of course, dentists deny any relation of what they do with anything else in the body.

Be careful with repositioning splints b/c if they reposition your jaw to where it is not suppose to be this can cause many problems later. I'd say listen to your body and do not try to force yourself into getting used to smth which hurts or is not comfy within a few days.

I can console you that being in this "well advanced" country with the "best tmj specialists" and spending tens of thousands of dollars on them does not help a little bit to get the tmj/bite problems resolved. Mostly these problems are created by those top specialists...

pearl1975 · 05-08-2009, 11:40 PM

thanks, so it is possible to have neck problems because of dental work....
the splint: the truth is, I feel better when it is in (or better to say I feel horrible when it is not in), but I still have pain and the clicking.
well, the guy who makes the splint says that if it worked, we could plan my bridge to replace my missing teeth, and then I would get back my normal bite and my problems would be resolved.... the problem is that the splint does not work so well.
when I asked him if he could send me to a TMJ specialist, he said that the only man he knows in Hungary is the doctor he has learned from, and he would do the same as he does for more money.....
anyway, in 2 weeks he is going to try a new thing with my splint.