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36 - Ear Infections, Tinnitus, and TMJ Are the Same Mechanical Story
The eustachian tube can't open itself. It's a passive structure that sits closed by default, and the only thing that opens it is a muscle bolted directly onto the bone you adjust every day.
This episode breaks down the mechanism after Dr. Anthony sat through a live dissection from Anatomy Trains on head and neck anatomy, and one section stopped him cold: the tensor veli palatini, the eustachian tube, and the pterygoid muscles, all packed into a few millimeters around the pterygoid plates of the sphenoid.
What's covered:
Why the eustachian tube is closed at rest, not open until something clogs…
The skinny
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