“Click, click, click..”, that sound can drive you up the wall when your eating, especially when it’s a quiet room with other people there. A clicking jaw is usually caused by some sort of displacement of the jaw disc, which makes it ‘click’ in and out briefly. So how can you get rid of that annoying sound to give yourself and everyone else in the room a bit of a break?

The reason your jaw is displaced is probably because of tight ligaments, tendons and muscles. So tension can build up and cause rigidity, pulling your jaw from one side or another too hard. By relaxing and strengthening the muscles, ligaments and tendons in your jaw, you can help your jaw to start functioning normally again.

To do this, you need to start using TMJ exercises. These exercises have been developed especially for people who suffer from TMJ, which can be an eventual result of an untreated clicking jaw. If you’re not experiencing pain you probably don’t have TMJ, but the exercises will still be very help and will probably get rid of your clicking jaw. Working out and strengthening the right muscles will help guide your jaw to function normally again. Hopefully after you do exercises for TMJ for a little while, you will start to notice improvement. The time that this will take varies from person to person, but within a week of doing the exercises you should be feeling improvements.

As well as TMJ exercises you should try improving posture and doing general exercises and stretching is always going to help. Trying to get rid of annoying niggles like this can be a problem because the solution isn’t a quick fix. But if you do the exercises regularly you’ll be happy you did. They can be completely in as little as 15 minutes per day and are very simple and easy to do, what are you waiting for?