🧘‍♂️ Stretching📌 TMJ Stretches

Jaw Stretches

Homecare Kinesiology Instruction Module

Progression step 1

✨ Clinical Benefit

Relieves jaw stiffness and pain, releases tight muscles in temporomandibular joint

📋 Remedial Instructions

  1. 1Start in a comfortably seated position with your shoulders and neck in neutral position.
  2. 2Open your mouth as wide as is comfortable and press your fist into your chin to increase the stretch.
  3. 3Hold for 30 seconds, or until it is no longer comfortable, and release.
  4. 4Repeat four times and do this exercise four times a day.
⚠️ Rapha Clinic Notice: Move smoothly without bouncing. Hold stretches for 30s. If any unexpected pain increases, suspend activity immediately.