Jaw Fatigue and Swelling From Trumpet Playing

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Jaw Swelling & Trumpet Playing

Have you found that after a lot of physically demanding playing, you experience fatigue or swelling in your jaw?

Unless your teeth perfectly align when you close your mouth, your jaw needs to position itself to find a relatively flat alignment of your lower and upper teeth for the mouthpiece to rest on. This leads to a jaw position which may be …