By the way, the therabite helps me get my mouth open a little wider than I would be able to otherwise and it helps prevent jaw cramps when I remember to use it really faithfully (7 times a day) but it seems to kind of max out in effectiveness when my mouth gets to a certain level of opening (which still isn't very wide). When I got it (4 months out from rad), I was good about using it for about 4 months then when I went back to work full time was less good about using it as often as I should have. I was also going for physical therapy then and what she did seemed to help as much as the therabite. Then I had surgery on my esophagus, the perforation, the stent which hurt the whole time it was in, an even busier work schedule, and in all that I was not good about using the therabite either. I think during that time scar tissue built up and now even when I use the therabite, it is limited in it's effectiveness. But after the coronoidectomy I know I will have to be really good about using it in order to maintain whatever I gain in mouth opening from it.

Nelie