WTF? Did I sprain my jaw?

[MetalFortress]

Last Wednesday at the gym, in the middle of a tough set of chinups involving lots of extra muscle tension to finish the last reps, I experienced what felt like a knife stabbing into my upper left jaw, between my ear and where my upper-left wisdom tooth would have grown in. This has happened before while lifting weights or while screaming along to music in my car, but to a lesser extent, and now, it slightly came back while I was yawning. What the heck is this?

 

[EFFORT]

From anatomy i can tell you the place you described is where your zygomatic bone connects with your mandibular fossa on your mandible (jaw).

I'm guessing you over extended your mandible and it didn't go straight back into the fossa like was supposed to and grinded or pushed against something causing the knife like pain.

I'm no md though, i would have it checked out if it continues to cause your trouble.

 

[AmazingTricks]

Originally posted by EFFORT
From anatomy i can tell you the place you described is where your zygomatic bone connects with your mandibular fossa on your mandible (jaw).

I'm guessing you over extended your mandible and it didn't go straight back into the fossa like was supposed to and grinded or pushed against something causing the knife like pain.

I'm no md though, i would have it checked out if it continues to cause your trouble.

i duno what you said, but you can't make this stuff up.

 

[MetalFortress]

wtf? Shut up you troll

EFFORT: Thanks. It's gone now, hopefully never to return.

 

[coolguy676767]

Originally posted by MetalFortress
wtf? Shut up you troll

EFFORT: Thanks. It's gone now, hopefully never to return.

geez he is not a troll, he wasnt saying what you said was made up, he was saying the stuff the other guy said sounded so real and scientific that there is no way he could just be making it up as he goes.

 

[AmazingTricks]

Originally posted by coolguy676767
geez he is not a troll, he wasnt saying what you said was made up, he was saying the stuff the other guy said sounded so real and scientific that there is no way he could just be making it up as he goes.

you sir are an *******

 

[Luscious]

Yeah, that happened to me last week when I was trying to haul back a triple-decker turkey sub.

Rest it, don't talk a whole hell of a lot for a couple days if it ever happens again.

 

[D'light]

i can make my jaw do that if i yawn really really really big...i know how bad it hurts too so i guess just try to avoid training your jaw to that point?

 

[Nexxus]

I get that problem very often, had it about 4 times in 2005 year so far

I get it everytime someone gives me an uppercut/someone shoulders me from below/a basketball hits me in the face (somehow)/someone elbows me from below/i fall on a table or chair chin first

errm yeah but anyways that thing never last for more than 6 hours for me, personally I ice the jaw from the skin area where it hurts and it goes away near immediately

 

[ScrewIt]

im not sure what happened...but this has happened to me once. One time i was just opening my mouth and flexing my jaws, then i heard a crack/snap noise come from it. before i knew it, my left jaw was in pain anytime i widened my jaw.

but after a few days, the pain slowly disappeared and my jaw now is fine.