04/05/2026
Chronic jaw tension, clenching, or grinding your teeth — especially at night — leaving you with headaches, ear pain, or that constant tight feeling in your face?
A lot of the time it comes from overworked muscles in the jaw and neck. The masseter and temporalis muscles (the main chewing muscles on the sides of your face) get tight and overactive from stress or clenching. The pterygoid muscles deeper inside the jaw add to the tension, while tight neck muscles like the upper trapezius and levator scapulae pull on the base of your skull and contribute to those tension headaches. Over time this creates a cycle of pain, restricted jaw movement, and that achy, heavy feeling that just won’t go away.
Our RMTs, Physiotherapists and Chiropractors can help break that cycle.
Registered Massage Therapists use targeted techniques, to directly release the deep jaw muscles that can have referral pain throughout the face and head. They also loosen the neck and shoulder muscles to reduce the pull on your head.
Chiropractors focus on gentle adjustments to the neck and jaw joint to improve alignment, restore smooth movement, and take pressure off irritated nerves and muscles.
Physiotherapists can do intramuscular stimulation IMS to release the large (sometimes over developed) masseter muscles that cause a lot referral pain in the jaw.
Many people notice less clenching, fewer headaches, and a much more relaxed jaw and neck after combining these two approaches.
If jaw tension and headaches have been wearing you down, this is something we see and help with all the time at Revamp.
Book your RMT, Physio or Chiro session (or a combo) through the link in bio or send us a DM. Let’s get that tension out of your face and head!