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A patient from Boerum Hill described her morning routine to me with quiet exhaustion. She would wake up, brace herself, and try to take a single bite of toast. If the bite went well, she would risk a second. If the joint hurt, she would shift to yogurt and skip breakfast. By dinner, after a

A patient from Park Slope came to see me last winter, convinced she was losing her mind. For nearly eighteen months, every provider she had seen had treated her jaw pain as a muscle problem. She had received massage, dry needling, stretching protocols, three different night guards, and a steady stream of self-care advice about

A patient from DUMBO sat across from me last fall and described a pattern I have heard hundreds of times. Three years earlier, a dentist had given her a splint that helped for a few months until the headaches returned. A physical therapist released her muscles for 6 weeks, and she felt great until the

A patient from Greenpoint called my office on a Tuesday morning, voice tight with panic, and said her jaw had locked open the night before while she was eating dinner. She managed to close it after twenty minutes of gently working it with her hands, but now she could only open it about half an