i asked him about the relationship between the hips and the jaw and he laughed in my face. That basically there was no connection between the two, and that I was overthinking the problem way too much. And then he called my nutty.
he tried to massage my facial muscles, he said he couldn't feel my discs. But i'm also positive that he didn't look at my MRIs, but i did think he asked if i got imaging done, so he really didn't look at my images. He also tried to massage my trapezius muscle. But he said he wasn't going to give me an anatomy lesson, and I knew more about TMD from my own reading than in this session.
My face still felt the same after the massage, and it was....like what I do on my own. He tried opening my mouth with his thumb, pressing down on my lower teeth, and truthfully in that moment it was the stuff of nightmares, but it didn't bugde (i really didn't want it to and I was kind of resisting it) He measured my mouth opening, which was 20-22 mm (?)