Jill Valerius
Dr. Jill Valerius, MD, is a board-certified functional and integrative family physician and founder/CEO of Now Health in Palmer, Alaska, and a recurring guest on Big Cabbage Radio's "Your Health" program.
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Oct 12, 2026
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If someone were to come in with a suspected temporal arteritis, so we're talking about that one-sided pretty, pretty bad pain right on the side of your forehead, and you can feel your pulse right there.
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Just above and to the lateral side, I guess, toward your ear from your eyeball, you'll feel your temporal artery.
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And so if you have really severe pain that's there, you're generally gonna get put on high-dose corticosteroids if that's what we're suspicious of.
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And then when we think about some of these other secondary things, bruxism, that's tooth grinding.
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These can be related to stress, posture, muscle tension, TMJ, different things like that.
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