After tmj injury what are the stats of complete recovery to chronic condition?
Tonight I was teaching my three year old to break dance and when he was standing up he cracked me on the underside of my jaw. Initially it hurt but I thought it would go away. When I realized that I couldn’t close my jaw completely I went to urgent care and they diagnosed it as TMJ. They couldn’t give me very much information. Has anyone had this happen and made a full recovery? I still can’t shut my jaw and its freaking me out.
Unfortunately I know of a lot of people that don’t ever get full recovery. I didn’t damage mine, but I got TMJ where my jaw locked closed… that was in May of 2007 and it’s still closed. You can go to ehealth.com and tmjfriends.com to find good information about treatments, etc. I use those sites a lot!
I hope yours gets better!
Good luck.