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THE JAW 2.

Your difficulty is:

Tight Muscles:

Starting Position:

Stretching:

Stimulation:

Common Errors:

Notes:

Normal Mobility:

Opening your mouth, because your jaw is stuck on the right side. or because your lower jaw moves to the right when you open your mouth.

Muscles involved in chewing:

1    pterygoideus medialis

2    masseter

3    temporalis.

Sit with back straight and ’long’ neck. Place right hand on forehead. Place left hand along right side of jaw, fingers gripping around back of jaw.

1.    Look to the left. With left hand, puli jaw forward and to the left, so thai stretch is felt in right side of jaw.

2.    Look to the right. Try to move jaw to the right against pressure of left hand; hołd for 5 seconds.

3.    Relax and look to the left. With left hand, puli jaw forward and to the left to limit - maybe a liltle bit morę.

4.    Repeat until you feel you can stretch no further and muscles fccl tight. Hołd this finał stretch from 15 seconds to a minutę or morę.

1.    Keep right hand on forehead; move left hand to left side of jaw.

2.    Look to the left and move jaw forward and left to limit.

3.    Resist movement with left hand.

4.    Hołd position a few seconds.

*    Hcad turns.

*    Neck bent baekward.

*    Eycs look in wrong direction.

*    Left hand lets go.

1.    Eye rnovements make this cxcrci.se easier to do.

2.    Stretch should be felt only on right side.

3.    If you can't open your mouth, stretch both sides.

4.    If stretch is painful, consult a doctor.

Jaw should be able to movc about as far forward as the width of a little finger.