Stretches

Jaw Stretches

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Jaw tension often comes with clenching, stress or a tight neck. Until jaw-specific moves are filmed, the neck and trap stretches linked below are the place to start, along with the guided routines.

When to see a clinician. See a dentist or doctor if your jaw locks, clicks with pain, or makes it hard to open your mouth or chew, or if pain lasts more than a couple of weeks.

MoveWell hasn't filmed any jaw-specific movements yet. More are coming. In the meantime, the neck stretches and trap stretches cover the muscles around the jaw that often tighten with it.

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Joel is the founder of MoveWell and IMPOSSIBLE. He became the youngest person to run an ultra marathon on every continent, and created MoveWell to make recovery easy with routines he would actually do.

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