TMJ/ TMD Journal
Saturday, January 14, 2006
One nightmare for another??? Long post-Lots of info!!!Wednesday January 11, 2006
Woke up with a wierd pain behind my eyes and a sore back of the neck. Never had that before but now I understand what a real bout of whiplash must feel like cause they say one of the symptoms of whiplash is sore eyes..
I had another appt early this morning as he is going out of town and wanted me back in right away. So I drove the one hour. He asked how I felt and I told him lousy. He said it was to be expected and that the vertabrae must be moving already.
He said that he'd wanted to call me last night because he always calls his patients their first time but he said he fell asleep by the phone. And he admitted yesterday was a long day for him as he worked all day and then had the Orientation and had to see other new patients such as me to discuss their X-ray results...Hmmm.
Anyways I told him I don't want to have my dizziness to come back and he said it won't...so the assistant put these massage suction cups on the back of my shoulders and left me there for 10 or so minutes. Then she put me on this delicious massage table that goes back and forth up and down your spine...loved that. Then she had me move to the room with the horrid hydraulic table that the chiro uses and she did my back and legs with a massage machine for a bit...which was nice too.
Then he did his chiro manipulations - cracked my neck both sides, had me lay on one side and did something to the side of my neck, and my jaw (didn't like the idea of him frigging around with my jaw at all), then he did my back, something with my legs and then onto my other side etc...
I felt as if I was a turkey being turned over and over for seasoning...LOL. Anyways when I left I didn't feel so hot...the thought of eating made my queesy and my eyes were still very sore.
Later that night I tried to do some of the exercises he gave me but all that did was make me dizzy...hence the dizziness is BACK!!!! GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!
Tuesday January 10, 2006
I returned for my second visit to the chiro today - he showed me the results of my x-rays and the tests he took (see below).
I also went to an Orientation held for new patients - there was about 20 who turned out. The chiropractor discussed about how a fetus grows...how the brain is formed first and then the spine. From the spine all the nerves and muscles and arteries form to produce all our organs...if I understood right each vertabrae is responsible for certain organs...
After Orientation he did a whole snap cracking of the neck and spine...left feeling as if my right ear was stuffed up...hmmmm.
Monday January 9, 2006
I went to the new chiropractor today. He took Xrays and did something called a MyoVision WinScan 98 Static Report.
It consists of a Static Scanning SEMG (sorry don't know what it all means)...but what he did was run something down the entire spine from neck to top of butt and the heat levels were recorded on the computer.
He gave me the printout which shows all the areas of muscle tension I have down along the spine. Apparantly I have a high level of muscle tension in the C6 area.
C6 deals with stiff neck, pain in upper arm, tonsilitis, whooping cough, croup...anyways my tension level for that vertabrae was 950% ! Extreme pressure.
Other areas include a 25% pull to the left of muscles in the C1 and C2 area - that area according to the massive amounts of other information he gave me deals with:
C1 - blood supply to the head, pituatary gland, bones of the face, scalp, brain, sympathetic system AND INNER AND MIDDLE EAR - POSSIBLY WHERE MY DIZZINESS has been originating from???????????
C2 - Eyes, optical nerves, auditory nerves (isn't that where ringing in the ears comes into play?)
sinuses, mastoid bones, tongue forehead.
Other areas of muscle tension I have are:
C4 - nose, lips mouth
T1, T3, T5, T11, L1 and L3 which deals with other body areas.
My xrays revealed:
C1 is way too close to the skull and C2.
My neck is too straight - in a perfect world it should have lovely slight curve
My spine in the back is leaning to the left, the spinouses in my lower back are pulling to the left, and my right side pelvis is too low...as well I have a pinched nerve in my lower back -this is where the pain comes from that occassionally radiates down my right leg.
And I have disc thinning in one of my lower vertabrae...ouch!
Now what does this all have to do with TMJ? Well if what I understood from the Orientation film I had to watch...if your spine is not aligned properly all kinds of things start to go wrong in the body.
If you have a sublaxation (something going wrong) in your neck and your neck is out of alignment this can lead to shoulder pain, tmj, and a whole bunch of wicked nasty stuff...
