TMJ Symptoms: The Small Signals Your Jaw Has Been Sending

A click when you open your mouth wide, a little tension near your ears, a headache that keeps showing up right at your temples: these seemingly small things are easy to brush off or attribute to a bad night’s sleep or too much stress. But your jaw is one of the busiest joints in your body, and when something is off, it tends to make itself known in quiet, persistent ways. That’s usually how TMJ symptoms begin.