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Both of his temporal muscles (the muscles on the forehead between the eye and ear) were highly developed and hard, and a palpation of his TMJ (temporomandibular joint) showed he had quite a bit of discomfort in that joint. Both of these are also indicators of a serious dental imbalance of some kind. Often, the kind of stiffness that he was showing in his shoulders, lower back, and hips can also come from an unbalanced mouth, or if not stemming from that imbalance, certainly can be perpetuated by it.

We decided the most important thing to do to get Rusty on the path to feeling better would be to get his mouth balanced. Unfortunately, it would still be a couple of months before we could get his mouth looked at by our dentist, a leading specialist in Natural Balance Dentistry. So in the meantime, Crissi and I (both educated in Masterson Method^® bodywork) began doing some bodywork with him and took him on the road with us while we did the next several weeks of clinics that we had scheduled.