How to Stretch the Masseter Muscle - Trigger Point Therapy

The masseter is the most superficial muscle of mastication, easily felt when the jaw is clenched.

Trigger Point Indications, include:

Trismus (severely restricted jaw), TMJ pain, tension/stress headache, ear pain, ipsilateral tinnitus, dental pain, bruxism, sinusitis pain, puffiness under the eyes (often present in singers).

Typical Causes:

Chewing gum, tooth grinding/ bruxism, prolonged dental work, stress, emotional tension, head- forward postures, occupation.

[SleepyNFit]

Oh wow, never expected mine to be this big. I can literally feel the muscle, it's more prominent on my left side than my right.

[kristinsnyder]

I am AMAZED! I’ve had lockjaw for two weeks since getting a dental crown. No relief. This stretch cured me! I went from getting two fingers in my mouth to 3 🎉 thank you SO much!

[rachaelpanda]

They should update the title for this to "best stretch to relieve tension headaches" lol. This is amazing

[allann]

I certainly felt the muscle stretch. The muscle tightness went away. Thank you for this video.

[TheIdeabaker]

This felt great and provided more relief than I’ve had in years. Thank you so much! 💕

[vonowens]

I might actually make it back to the dentist now! Haven’t gone for years in fear of my jaw locking (has happened in the past and is scaarrryy). Thank you for sharing your knowledge and expertise!

[supratimsarkar]

You are so great sir awesome explaination

[evelynmonsivais]

thank you so much for this... it is very helpful sire. thank you... :)

[jonathanwilkinson]

Can you use this exercise to strengine your Masseter muscles to give yourself a stronger jawline? I am trying to find out the best exercise for this effect that will have the lease likely hood of causing injury.

[rachellescott]

I get really bad nausea when I try these. Any advice?

[savagelexlex]

mine is swollen and it fucking hurts when I try to do this, I heard a pop 4 days ago and I cant chew for shit and it hasn't gotten any better, It's not the TMJ It's like the masseter connection to the bottom of my jawbone that ripped or something, did this ever happened to anybody? the pain is like unbearable. Im fueling myself with motrin for the past week to ease the pain.

[haydeefm]

Does anyone know whether this works for TMJ. I'm suffering from horrible pain and a cracking jaw and haven't found anyone in Houston that specializes in this.

[cryptostacys]

How wide should I be opening my mouth? It feels like my jaw is going to unhinge at a certain point but I can feel a bigger stretch is possible.

[marzenap]

wow this is interesting, I am suffering with pain and they prescribed me steroids even after 4 crown work for about 5 hours 😢 trying stretch now, any more advice for me please ? doing ice pack on jaw, feels like sharp or dull pain and hard to know if it might both but dentist said it is muscle after 5 injections in the muscle 😢

[armanischaar]

Would this exercise help to start reducing the size of the masseter? Worried if I do this that it’ll actually increase the size of it?

[spiiral]

does that also stretch the temporalis?

[sunoftheyek]

When I open my mouth and relax my jaw, my jaw moves upwards instead of down. Do you know what that is? I'm guessing it's not trismus because I can open my jaw. It's just when I relax it. I'm wondering if tight masseter muscles might be the reason. Will this exercise help?

[VAHZGEN]

If this guy didn’t want to be a model why did he bother to be in the video. Dude, was fighting to not open his mouth wide as the doctor was trying to instruct

[iceseic]

I came from asymmetry face exercise video, and they do different kind of masseter stretch but I don't feel the stretch. Only to come here with no luck of feeling the stretch again, my face is assymetry as hekl

[ramkrishnapal-lmyt]

Please tell me anyone why my one sided masseter muscle is big than my another and that is sharp...how to solve it without surgery or botox...any exercise? Please help me ASAP