I was reading about the jaw and spine connection in one of your answers. Here is my story in a nutshell. In 2005 I began have nerve pain and muscle spasms in my mid back. One time the muscle spasm was so intense that it literally traveled up my back, thru my left neck side and pulled the left side of my face down. After that it developed into neck pain, front and back, and excrutiating arm pain frequently. I felt and now feel all the time that something is pulling my mouth down. It feels like my neck muscles and then my mid back pulling everything down. It is painful, embarrassing. I have alot of facial pain that feels like its in my massiter muscles and connected to my sternomastecloids and then down to my back. I also fell my pterygoid muscles hurting and pulling. So my question is did I blow it when I got a cervical fusion because my arms feel 100 percent better, but I still have all the other syptoms I have described. I wonder if it is all from TMD (and its a fact I grind my teeth and wear a nightguard) and if it is do I have any hope? Can my jaw still be helped and maybe the rest of me. Thank you for your thoughts on this.