The Surprising Link Between Your Jaw and Your Pelvic Floor

It sounds like an unlikely pairing: the jaw and the pelvic floor. But in clinical practice, it's actually quite common to see the two show up together. Someone with chronic jaw clenching may also be dealing with pelvic tension, or someone in pelvic floor therapy who mentions, almost as an afterthought, that they grind their teeth at night or wake up with tightness in their jaw. This isn't a coincidence. It all comes down to how the nervous system manages tension throughout the body. Also, the jaw and the pelvic floor are connected to the top and bottom of the spine, where the spinal cord (part of the central nervous system) passes in proximity.