If you keep injuring your jaw muscles, it might make the pain-sensing nerves more sensitive over time, which could lead to long-lasting muscle pain.

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Repeated Muscle Injury as a Presumptive Trigger for Chronic Masticatory Muscle Pain

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2011

The study shows that when chewing muscles are injured more than once, they don’t heal well and cause nerve changes that make pain more likely, which supports the idea that repeated injuries can lead to long-term muscle pain.

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Repeated Muscle Injury as a Presumptive Trigger for Chronic Masticatory Muscle Pain

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DOI: 10.1155/2011/647967

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