For a normal reading, your blood pressure needs to show a top number thatâs lower than 120, and a bottom number thatâs lower than 80. When both your systolic and diastolic numbers are in these ranges, then you are considered by the American Heart Association (AHA) to be within the normal range for blood pressure.
It hurts over the joint immediately in front of the ear but pain can also radiate elsewhere. It often causes spasm in the adjacent muscles that are attached to the bones of the skull face and jaws. Then pain can be felt at the side of the head (the temple), the cheek, the lower jaw, and the teeth.
Clenching and grinding can do a great deal of damage to your teeth, but it is the overworking of the masseter and temporalis muscles to the point of spasm that creates head pain. These spasms are often the central trigger points associated with tension headaches in the forehead, eyebrows, and sides of the head. Many people even experience referral pain within the ear itself from spasms in the cheek muscles. Most people are unaware of a clenching or grinding habit until they look for it.