What’s wrong with the pain in the bone next to your ear when you eat?

The place of the bone next to the ear is the temporomandibular joint, if there is pain when eating, it is because when biting, the temporomandibular joint is required to exert force, the appearance of this place of pain, there are usually two reasons: first, temporomandibular arthritis, usually because of the localization of the cold or the people who often talk, eat, bite hard things, resulting in local chronic aseptic inflammation, temporomandibular arthritis can usually be localized Hot compresses or with infrared radiation, as well as with all the moxibustion, can promote local blood circulation, eliminate inflammation. Secondly, it may be caused by local accidental injury, for example, after the facial injury, resulting in the temporomandibular joint suddenly displacement, and then reset the situation, resulting in the joint capsule and the surrounding ligament damage, this situation try to rest mainly, avoid eating, and even can’t bite the hard bone, usually rest for about 1-2 weeks, the symptoms will get better.