As a firefighter I do everything from fight grass fires, house fires, rubbish fires, car fires, anything that can catch on fire weâd be called for it. We go to medical calls, any time ambulances are called out we go to it. We do everything from heart attacks to small injuries to car wrecks.
These patients are very low in their self esteem. Management of patients with trismus: Treatment should ideally be directed towards managing the cause of trismus 8. If trismus is. caused due to muscle fibrosis / formation of immature scar tissue formation physical therapy. and use of trismus appliance could be of use.
Trismus is a more difficult TMJ symptom to diagnose accurately. It is when you can't open your mouth very far. The opening can be anywhere from 5 mm to 32 mm usually. Trismus is a muscle Spasm that doesn't allow you mouth to open very far. It can go away as fast as it came, or it may take a month or two to unspasm. This can also be called Lock Jaw. But, in my office, a Locked Jaw is when the disc is displaced and binds up your jaw in a way that you cannot open it unless the disc is in place again, or slipping or translating freely which does allow opening of the jaw.