Does Your Jaw Click, Crack, Snap, or Pop?
Do you ever wake up with jaw pain and can barely open your mouth?
Or you bite into something, like an apple, and your jaw suddenly locks?
Lately, at Benefit Chiropractic & Wellness Clinic, I’ve had quite a few patients come in with acute TMJ pain. It usually comes on pretty quickly. One day things feel fine, and the next day they can barely open their mouth without pain.
You finish a long day at the office, shut down your computer, and immediately feel it. That familiar, tight ache creeping up from your shoulder blades into the base of your neck. You try rolling your shoulders, maybe doing a quick stretch, but the tension never really seems to go away. It just waits for you to sit back down at your desk the next morning.
Does Your Jaw Click, Crack, Snap, or Pop?
Do you ever wake up with jaw pain and can barely open your mouth?
Or you bite into something, like an apple, and your jaw suddenly locks?
Lately, at Benefit Chiropractic & Wellness Clinic, I’ve had quite a few patients come in with acute TMJ pain. It usually comes on pretty quickly. One day things feel fine, and the next day they can barely open their mouth without pain.
by Dr. Andrew Erjavec
April 14th, 2026
in Back Care
You finish a long day at the office, shut down your computer, and immediately feel it. That familiar, tight ache creeping up from your shoulder blades into the base of your neck. You try rolling your shoulders, maybe doing a quick stretch, but the tension never really seems to go away. It just waits for you to sit back down at your desk the next morning.
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