Originally published at: Complexity of jaw muscle revealed | Boing Boing
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How do you treat lockjaw?
- Applying a warm compress by using a hot water bag or a hot towel, several times a day, so that it loosens the locked jaw muscles.
- Using cold packs as this will relieve the pain associated with lockjaw.
- Rectifying your posture is crucial to prevent the lockjaw condition from worsening.
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What? You mean to say there’s no Lockjaw-Picking Lawyer?
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How will we ever know the answer to your timely question?
Why don’t I have a subscription to Gray’s Anatomy?
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Unless you’ve studied anatomy, there’s a bunch of muscles you didn’t know you had. The pyramidalis has the function of tensing the linea alba, the line in the middle of your abs, and may be a vestigial muscle from back in the day of monotremes (remember when every mammal was a monotreme?), where it’s thought to be there to tense the marsupial pouch. Present in about 90% of humans. It’s cool that human anatomy is still being mapped out.
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