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THE JAW 4.

Your difficulty is: Tight Muscles:

Starting Position:

Stretching:

Stimulation:

Common Errors:

Notes:

Normal Mobility:

Opening your mouth wide without Iower jaw moving to the right.

Muscles involved in chewing:

1    temporalis

2    masseter

3    pterygoideus medialis.

Sit with back straight and ’long’ neck. Support forehead with left hand. Place right forefinger and middle finger inside mouth, as far back as possible over back teeth on right side; steady this grip with right thumb against jaw bonę.

1.    Look down. Open mouth as much as possible by using right hand to puli jaw forward and right fingers to press back edge down, so that stretch is felt in right side of jaw.

2.    Look up. Try to close mouth as if to bite, against pressure of right hand: hołd for 5 seconds.

3.    Rełax and look down. Open mouth to limit - maybe a little bit morę - b\ pulling forward and down with right hand and fingers.

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

1.    Reverse grip, right hand to back of neck, left hand to left side of jaw.

2.    Look down and to the left and move jaw down, opening mouth to limit.

3.    Resist that movement with left hand.

4.    Hołd position a few seconds.

*    Head tums.

*    Neck bent backward.

*    Eyes look in wrong direction.

*    Wrong hand grip.

*    Right thumb not firmly on jaw; right fingers slide off back teeth.

1.    Eye movements make this exercise easier to do.

2.    Stretch should be felt only on right side.

3.    If stretch is painful, consult a doctor.

Mouth should be able to open three finger widths between upper and Iower teeth.

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