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It refers to the restriction of the range of motion of the jaws and difficulty in opening the mouth fully.
Seek professional care if you experience any of the following symptoms
Visual field defect
Impossible to walk normally
Difficulty breathing / breathlessness
Abnormal sensation (tingling, prickling)
Muscle weakness in the limbs
Unilateral blindness
Recent weight loss
Disorder of consciousness
Numbness of the body
Altered mental status (delirium)
Headache
Seizure attack
Head injury
Fever
Infection of the tonsils and pharynx (back of the mouth), either by viruses or bacteria.
A spinal tumor is a tumor that develops within the spinal canal or the bones of the spine. It can be life-threatening and cause permanent disability. Causes include environmental toxins, certain inherited syndromes, such as neurofibromatosis 2 and von Hippel-Lindau disease.
A group of diseases that cause progressive weakness and loss of muscle mass. In this condition, abnormal genes (mutations) interfere with the production of proteins needed to form healthy muscle.
Multiple system atrophy
Spinocerebellar degeneration
Wilson disease
Cerebral infarction is the term given to damage to brain tissue as a result of stroke. Cerebral infarction occurs due to reduced blood supply and oxygen delivery to the brain. This results in the death of brain cells and brain damage. It is usually caused by a blood clot or fatty/ cholesterol plaques blocking a blood vessel to the brain, but can also happen if a blood vessel ruptures and bleeds into the brain.
Your doctor may ask these questions to check for this symptom
Do you have difficulty opening your mouth?
Do you have any swelling of the jaw?
Do you have jaw pain?
Are you breathless or having hard time breathing?
Do you feel that you cannot speak as well as before?
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Reviewed By:
Yoshinori Abe, MD (Internal medicine)
Dr. Abe graduated from The University of Tokyo School of Medicine in 2015. He completed his residency at the Tokyo Metropolitan Health and Longevity Medical Center. He co-founded Ubie, Inc. in May 2017, where he currently serves as CEO & product owner at Ubie. Since December 2019, he has been a member of the Special Committee for Activation of Research in Emergency AI of the Japanese Association for Acute Medicine. | | Dr. Abe has been elected in the 2020 Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia Healthcare & Science category.
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