Temporal Mandibular Joint (TMJ) dysfunction is a diagnosis for a range of neuromuscular imbalances rooted in mis-calibrated neural feedback from muscles of the jaw, cranium and/or neck, resulting in chronic pain. Standard options for treating TMJ include retraining using mechanical appliances, drugs or surgery. Fortunately many cases of TMJ can be treated quickly with long lasting results using Craniosacral Therapy and other manual therapy techniques.

I use gentle, hands on techniques to reset muscle tension for optimal function, eliminating pain, teeth grinding, headache etc. These techniques are safe, painless and often quite pleasurable, eliminating TMJ pain without surgery, drugs or appliances. I pay attention to treating the root causes of stress and other factors that have an effect on jaw tension as part of the long term solution. I am very successful at quickly getting relief from pain.  I also successfully treat post surgical or appliance use trauma.

Carpal Tunnel: Client presented with severe pain in the right wrist. Assessment found that the muscles that extend the hand at the wrist had a great deal of hardened connective tissue that had developed a ropey feel and that actively prevented the hand from closing all of the way. We did 3 sessions spaced a week apart of 20 minutes of deep tissue bodywork on the forearm followed by 10 minutes of reactive muscle reset to restore the balance of the extensors and flexors of the hand. By the third session the pain had greatly diminished and the grip was nearly normal