Is, "Pulling on Your Ear,' a Real Therapy?

Last week, a patient came in with numerous symptoms, one of the most bothersome was stabbing pain into her ear.  She said that she has been experiencing this pain for quite some time and that no doctor was able to explain to her why this was happening.  She decided to ask, "Dr. Internet," and someone who had this problem said that she had found that, "pulling on the ear," relieved the pain.

It's unfortunate that no medical doctor is aware of the mechanism of injury that leads to ear pain.  Ruling out ear or throat infections, the most frequent cause of pain radiating into the ear is simple to diagnose, but highly complex to treat....TMD or tempomandibular dysfunction....aka, TMJ.  However calling it, "TMJ" is a misnomer as the "J" stands for "joint," and all of us have a jaw joint.

We're working with this patient to rebalance the TMJ and all the other 20+ muscles that attach to this joint, affecting the neck, shoulder, arms, hands (often symptoms in the hands is mistaken for carpal tunnel syndrome and people are afflicted by surgery which usually makes things worse), taste, smell and causing light sensitivity, migraines, other types of headaches, tooth pain and pain in the face, head and ears.

Fortunately for this and numerous other patients, Dr. Kollars did an externship while in school with one of the country's foremost experts in treating TMD. We've successfully treated this condition for over 25 years. 

A word of caution.  Many dentists grind down the teeth of patients complaining of tooth pain that is not associated with dental caries.  Once this is done, there is no reversing the often far-reaching affects of this procedure. Grinding down teeth in the hope of alleviating pain does not address all the other imbalances caused by TMD.

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