TMJ, Head and Neck Pain Specialist - I help people in pain rewrite their story using my Physioloops Signature Process.
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04/24/2026
Jaw pain AND neck pain? Stop treating them separately!
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If your jaw feels stiff and your neck hurts, they’re often part of the same problem — not two different ones.
💡 What’s happening?
When your jaw can’t fully open and shift forward, your body compensates by tilting your head back.
That overuses the lower neck — leading to pain and stiffness.
🔥 Why this matters
If you only treat the neck or only the jaw, it keeps coming back.
You need to fix how they work together.
🛠️ Exercises to restore function
1.) Jaw forward + side resistance
Use your finger to resist as you move your jaw forward/back and side to side. This builds control of the joint.
2.) Chin tuck + controlled opening
Tuck your head back against a towel and open your mouth without letting your head tilt up.
3.) Resisted opening
Place resistance under your chin and open your mouth against it to strengthen the system.
Training the jaw and neck together helps reduce compensation and actually fix the root problem.
04/24/2026
Does your ear feel clogged, but your doctor says everything looks normal? You’ve probably tried Q-tips, ear drops, or blowing to “pop” it — but nothing seems to help.
Here’s something most people don’t realize: your tonsils might be the real reason your ear feels blocked. When your tonsils swell due to sickness, allergies, reflux, or even poor posture, they can press on the nearby Eustachian tube.
👂 The Eustachian tube is a small opening that helps drain pressure from the ear. If that tube gets compressed, fluid and air can get trapped, causing that frustrating fullness.
In this video, I’ll walk you through a simple way to massage and release the tonsil area to reduce that pressure. It might feel a little strange at first, but this could be your missing piece to fix that clogged ear! Try it twice a day for a week, and see how your ears respond.
💭 If you want to get to the root cause of your ear symptoms, comment “Quiz” to take the self-assessment.
04/24/2026
If you’re dealing with jaw pain you can’t get rid of...
You might be missing this key muscle.
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There’s a tiny disc inside your TMJ that shifts when you open your mouth, and it’s controlled by muscles most people don’t even think about. The lateral and medial pterygoid might be small, but they have a big impact on the way your jaw moves. If these muscles are not working properly, it leads to clicking, tension, and pain.
In this video, I show you a few simple release and resistance exercises to help retrain them to do their job again!
👉 First, we’ll release the medial pteryoid.
👉 Next, we’ll release the laeral pterygoid.
👉 Finally, we’ll strengthen both muscles to prevent pain from coming back in the future!
Save this post for when that popping or clicking comes back.
04/24/2026
Jaw pain and neck pain — they’re more connected than you think!
If your jaw can’t move the way it’s supposed to (rotate, then glide forward), your body finds a workaround… by recruiting your neck. That “head tilting back” when you open wide? It’s compensation, not normal mechanics.
So now you’re stuck choosing:
➡️ Open your mouth fully… but irritate your neck
➡️ Protect your neck… but limit your jaw
The real solution isn’t choosing one over the other — it’s restoring proper jaw mobility so your neck doesn’t have to do the extra work.
Train the jaw. Free the neck. Move the way you’re built to.
04/24/2026
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Do you experience shoulder blade pain that just won’t go away? You’ve tried stretching it, massaging it and fixing your posture but it keeps coming back? Plus you get headaches and it seems like it’s all connected? (Well you’re probably right!)
You see when we have improper shoulder blade function, the muscles that connect it to the spine have to overwork and those muscles tug on the neck which can cause headaches!
PLUS, if your upper back and rib head joint are stiff… then the muscles (rhomboids, levant scapulae and upper trapezius have to work even more). SO to fix the situation we have to:
1.) Release the muscles to put them in a more healthy state.
2.) Mobilize the upper spine and rib head joints
3.) Retrain the serrates anterior to properly move the shoulder blade so we don’t have any further compensations by the headache causing muscles!
I find it so incredibly common that when your neck and shoulders do not function properly, they are secretly causing your headaches! Try this out and if you need more help or to figure out any other root cause, comment ‘QUIZ’ on this post and I’ll help you out!
04/24/2026
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Here are the three key fixes you need to breathe the RIGHT way.
First, we’ve got to learn to fully exhale so old air isn’t left behind. Next, we restore rib and thoracic mobility so the diaphragm has room to descend. And finally, we retrain those accessory muscles that love to overwork and lift your rib cage when they shouldn’t. Put all three together, and your breathing becomes smoother, deeper, and way more efficient.
Here’s your blueprint...
✅ Fix 1: 5–10 full exhales, rest, 3 sets
✅ Fix 2: 10 reps for each of the 3 movements
✅ Fix 3: 2 minutes of breathing, 2–3x per day
Work through these consistently and you’ll notice not just easier breathing, but better posture and less tension overall.
And if you want help identifying other restrictions that keep you from upright, efficient breathing, don’t forget to drop “UPRIGHT” in the comments and I’ll send you the full walkthrough.
04/23/2026
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👀 These tiny eye muscles you’ve probably never heard of might be causing those eye headaches.
The superior and lateral obliques are small muscles that control how your eyes move. But when you spend hours staring at screens, have poor posture, or carry stress, these muscles can spasm. And when they do, they often send referred pain straight to your forehead and around your eyes—making it feel like the headache is inside them.
The good news is that you can actually stretch these muscles out. Start with the superior oblique: look all the way up and in at the tip of your finger. Blink, release, and repeat. Then move to the lateral oblique: focus straight inward (not up or down), hold, then release. Finally, try the combined movement where you follow your finger up and down to reset the tension.
By moving the eyes opposite to the way these muscles usually pull, you can release spasms and reduce that eye-heavy headache feeling. Try it out!
04/23/2026
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Do you experience pain different areas of the head?
Maybe they feel like headaches or soreness or sensitivity and it’s hard to tell where it comes from?
Referred muscle pain can be one of the causes of this, and in this guide, I show six common muscles that produce referred pain to the head. You can also find each of the muscles and apply pressure for five seconds, which is what it takes to produce, referred pain and see if your pain shows up!
The muscles include:
Anterior Temporalis
Posterior Temporalis
Masseter
Sternocleidomastoid
Trapezius
Splenius Capitis
Save this guide and use it when you need it most!
04/23/2026
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👇 Try this quick test:
1️⃣ Bring your head forward and look up, hold for up to a minute.
2️⃣ Bring your head forward again, but this time look down, and hold for a minute.
Whichever one reproduces your pain tells you what’s going on.
👉 If it hurts when you look up, nerves, blood vessels, and deep neck muscles are being compressed.
👉 If it hurts when you look down, the muscles that control your head-lowering movement are weak.
Now let’s fix both sides of that equation.
For compression: place your hand on your chin and gently pull your head straight up — feel that lift? You’re decompressing the tight muscles that trap your nerves. You can even tilt slightly to each side to release deeper tension. Then practice slow tucks and tilts side to side to restore control and alignment.
For weakness: use your fingers on your forehead to assist your head down, then lift it back up on your own. You’re retraining the deep flexors that hold your head up properly.
And once you’ve done that, finish by rebalancing your upper body.
Sit tall, stretch through your chest and shoulders, then lay on a foam roller — arms overhead, shoulder blades pulled down and back — and repeat reps to strengthen posture support muscles.
💡 Over time, these movements restore proper balance between flexibility and strength so your neck can finally relax, your headaches ease, and your head feels clear again!
04/23/2026
Comment “SALE” and I’ll send you my FLASH SALE Code to join the Head, Neck & Jaw Rewrite Program for a discounted price!
Stiff neck or pain right here? It might be your levator scapula causing the problem—but not in the way you think.
Instead of stretching it the usual way, try strengthening it:
✅ Shrug your shoulder blade and pinch it in
✅ Raise your hand, turn your head toward it, and tilt
✅ Apply gentle pressure for 10 seconds and relax
This approach reduces trigger points, improves posture, and makes turning your head easier and pain-free.
💡 Strengthen, don’t just stretch—it’s a game-changer for neck and shoulder tension!
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04/23/2026
Comment “SALE” and I’ll send you my FLASH SALE Code to join the Head, Neck & Jaw Rewrite Program for a discounted price!
Does your jaw click or pop, leaving you anxiously waiting for it to happen?
In this video, I break down why it happens and how to retrain your jaw:
✅ Understand TMJ rotation and translation
✅ Reposition your disc safely
✅ Restore smooth, pain-free movement
✅ Reduce irritation and prevent clicks
Try my two-part exercise to work on rotation first, then gently mobilize the jaw for normal mechanics and lubrication.
💡 Bonus: This method helps relieve jaw tension, headaches, neck and shoulder discomfort, and more!
I’m running a sale today on my 12-step brain-body program designed for chronic pain relief. Comment SALE to get the link and start improving your jaw, posture, and overall wellbeing. 🔗
04/23/2026
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When it comes to pain in the drawn face region, there are three major causes:
👉🏼 Referred from Neck
👉🏼 TMJ (joint pain)
👉🏼 Stress / Tension
If you don’t understand the cause of your pain, then you’re wasting your time and money trying to fix the wrong thing. The majority of people suffer so much longer than they need to because they truly do not understand what’s causing their pain and they suffer for years, sacrifice their career and relationships and fitness all because they never took the time to figure out the why.
So go through this video carefully watch it a few times truly understand what I’m trying to say, and then take the root cause quiz to give you further information about it.
This will be well worth your time if you’ve been suffering for way too long.
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Being a very active person, Dr. Joseph Damiani is always encountering some new injury, ache or pain threatening his lifestyle. However, his unwillingness to compromise his INDEPENDENCE and doing the things he loves has allowed him to learn first hand how to effectively rehabilitate injuries and keep going!
As Joe is now in his mid-30s, he has learned that it's true what they say, you're not invincible forever. Also, he sees in his patients, family and friends who are in their 40s, 50s, 60s, 70s and older that the road does not get any easier, however the DIFFERENCE between those who give up their independence and those who continue doing all the things they love is access to THE RIGHT INFORMATION AND CARE.
Joe's passion is to build a physical therapy clinic and system that will allow active adults to continue the activities they love for their entire life. He is motivated to deliver this to not only his patients but to himself. Selfishly, he realized that if he can deliver a product to patients that will keep them MOBILE, ACTIVE, INDEPENDENT and doing the THINGS THEY LOVE then he can use that same product on himself to continue to live the life he is building, pain and injury-free.
Joe opened Skyline Physical Therapy located in Wyckoff, New Jersey because it was his only option. As previously mentioned, Joe's vision was to build a facility which allows each patient to attain the life they truly deserve. In order to accomplish this, he could NOT PARTICIPATE in the existing physical therapy model. In the existing model, patients receive merely 15 minutes of the physical therapist’s attention before being handed off to someone else. The physical therapists are handcuffed by the high volume of patients and the patients are the ones making all the sacrifice…
At Skyline Physical Therapy in Wyckoff, New Jersey, every patient receives one-on-one focused treatment during each visit. This system gives the physical therapist a clear comprehension of what each of their patients requires to recover. The ONE-ON-ONE PATIENT CENTERED approach used at Skyline allows the therapist the necessary time to identify the root cause of the patients pain and develop the proper plan of care to restore independence. This system affords the therapist the time to be PERSISTENT and continuously modify the plan, MAXIMIZING RESULTS. Specialized treatment at our clinic will give you back pain relief, neck pain relief, TMJ pain relief, knee pain relief, shoulder pain relief and more!
The therapist also focuses on educating the patient thoroughly about the state of dysfunction in their body and how we can reverse it. When the patient is not here at our clinic for treatment, they can stay in close communication with their therapist via phone, video calls or email. Every person should be walking longer, sleeping better, driving a ball farther, enjoying playing with your grandkids or simply living pain-free. The body has so much more potential (AT EVERY AGE) than many will ever realize. What most people consider the norm, is actually a state of dysfunction. Every year that goes by living in this state of dysfunction is another year of missed opportunity to live life to the fullest.
Joseph earned his Bachelor’s Degree in Exercise Science from Manhattan College in 2006 and went on to receive a Doctorate of Physical Therapy from the University of Miami in 2010. Dr. Damiani is a NSCA Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist. Prior to opening Skyline Physical Therapy, Joseph’s clinical experience with patients includes his time at two of the Nation's Top Hospitals as Ranked by US News and World Report. The first being the Hospital for Special Surgery in Manhattan where he was exposed to spine and orthopedic injuries in patients ranging from professional athletes to active adults. The second being Rancho Los Amigos National Rehabilitation Center in Los Angeles, where his specialty was joint and spine rehabilitation.
If you would like to know how Skyline Physical Therapy can help you live with less pain and get back to feeling great again - we invite you to start with a completely free DISCOVERY SESSION in our Wyckoff, New Jersey Clinic. It is a no-obligation, risk free appointment at our clinic.
