Jaw exercises cause ear pain?

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Hello to all -

I'm a little over 2-1/2 months post-op from a BSSO advancement last

August. A few weeks ago my OS gave me the go-ahead to start exercises

to get my jaw opening back. I've been faithfully doing the exercises

and have gone from 23mm to currently about 34mm (yippee!). They've

told me I need to get to 40mm.

The issue is when I work on increasing the stretch I get ear pain in

my left ear and a lot of pulling in the left side of the jaw.

Obviously I back off the stretch with any pain, but I feel like it's

holding me back and I'm so close to my goal! I'm trying heat and self-

massage to help loosen things up.

Anyway, has anybody else had a similar experience? If so, did it

resolve over time and you got back to a full jaw opening? Just

wondering....

Thanks,

Libby

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Hi Libby

I too am experiencing ear pain and pulling on one side. I mentioned

it to my physiotherapist and he indicated that it was normal. He

said that they mess up alot of the muscles and tissues around the

jaw area and it willtake some time to stretch out those muscles

again. He also said it should be temporary until your openning gets

larger. I have noticed that the pain used to come at 32mm now it

comes at 38mm so maybe as the muscles stretch it will go away. At

least thats what I'm hoping. I just keep plugging away at the

exercises.

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<allengraphics.la@g...> wrote:

>

> Hello to all -

>

> I'm a little over 2-1/2 months post-op from a BSSO advancement

last

> August. A few weeks ago my OS gave me the go-ahead to start

exercises

> to get my jaw opening back. I've been faithfully doing the

exercises

> and have gone from 23mm to currently about 34mm (yippee!). They've

> told me I need to get to 40mm.

>

> The issue is when I work on increasing the stretch I get ear pain

in

> my left ear and a lot of pulling in the left side of the jaw.

> Obviously I back off the stretch with any pain, but I feel like

it's

> holding me back and I'm so close to my goal! I'm trying heat and

self-

> massage to help loosen things up.

>

> Anyway, has anybody else had a similar experience? If so, did it

> resolve over time and you got back to a full jaw opening? Just

> wondering....

>

> Thanks,

> Libby

>