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The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. This story first appeared in Healthy You - January 2025, The Gazette’s quarterly health publication.

An 11-year-old boy’s painful chronic lockjaw may have been triggered by conversion disorder, a mental health condition that causes physical symptoms, according to a case report published on April 7 in ...

My first symptom—a swollen, achy neck—could’ve been anything. But as spring bloomed into summer, stranger things cropped up. A recurrent pinching sensation in my ears. Sharp pains all around my face.

Like many living in fast-moving cities, the pain was explained away as stress, long work hours, or "just one of those things." Across urban India, countless individuals are making similar quiet ...

BETTENDORF, Iowa (KWQC) -If you’ve ever experienced jaw pain, popping, or headaches that seem to start near your ears, you might be dealing with TMJ dysfunction—and Nelson Chiropractic in Bettendorf ...

The human mouth primarily functions with the help of the temporomandibular joints, or the TMJs. These are complex sliding hinge joints on both sides of the face that connect the lower jaw to the skull ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Smoking and other types of tobacco use may increase the pain of temporomandibular joint disorders, a new study suggests. Temporomandibular joint disorders, commonly known ...

In a bizarre turn of events, a woman dislocated her jaw while she was eating golgappas. This eventually left her mouth locked open. The incident took place on Saturday afternoon in Auraiya district of ...

TMJ means I clench my jaw and grind my teeth. Blame stress; blame genetics; blame the anxiety-inducing dumpster fire that is 2020. All I know for sure is that I wake each morning with a painful, ...