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Arlington, Massachusetts (PRWEB) February 26, 2013
Most types of TMJ-disorder-related pain (jaw pain, facial pain, temporomandibular joint pain, tooth pain, loose teeth, neck pain, and headaches) are caused by ongoing tissue damage done by habitual nighttime teeth clenching. The nerve signals from nighttime clenching are also a key component of migraines being triggered in people with migraine-sensitive brains. At the annual conference of the American Association of Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback (AAPB) in Portland, Oregon, from March 14-17, Holistic Technologies will demonstrate its nighttime biofeedback technology that allows migraine and TMJ disorder sufferers to get out of pain by training themselves out of nighttime clenching. Attendees and members of the press are invited to try the SleepGuard biofeedback headband at the conference exposition.
Most people go to a dentist seeking TMJ relief, but dentists are rarely able to reduce clenching with a custom mouth guard. “Mouth guards protect tooth enamel, but they often increase a person’s addictive nighttime clenching habit”, says Lee Weinstein, CEO of Holistic Technologies. Dentists typically aren’t’ trained in the psychology of modifying addictive habits, and the sensation from the roots of the teeth during nighttime clenching feeds an addictive oral habit for most TMJ sufferers. The SleepGuard biofeedback headband empowers people to train themselves out of the addictive habit of nighttime clenching which is causing their TMJ pain an enabling their migraines”.
Migraines are most often treated with expensive drugs that can have serious side effects, but for many there is another way – a way that does not require
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