If you suffer from jaw pain or Temporomandibular Joint Dysfunction (TMD) Part 3 of our Bodyquirks Parts is Parts series is for you. TMD (often mistakenly called TMJ for the actual name of the joint it affects) causes tenderness and pain in the temporomandibular joint (TMJ.) Located on each side […]
Massage
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This second blog in our series on the body features the work of Dr. Ben Benjamin, founder of the Muscular Therapy Institute in Cambridge, MA. We have both taken his advanced medical massage for ligaments classes for lower back and spine injures and more recently, how to treat neck injuries […]
What is a muscle spasm? It’s an involuntary contraction of the muscle that is usually quite painful and which occurs suddenly and resolves just as quickly. Different than a twitching muscle, which is an uncontrolled movement of the muscle visible beneath the skin, spasms occur for a variety of reasons: […]