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Tenderness in the posterior and/or anterior belly of the digastric can be recorded by digital palpation. In this instance, discomfort can be elicited by palpating behind the ascending ramus of the mandible or in the submandibular area below the body of the mandible. Tenderness in this muscle arises in patients who demonstrate bruxism on their anterior teeth with the mandible in protrusion.

The other suprahyoid, infrahyoid, and cervical muscles are difficult to examine apart from sternocleidomastoid, which can be examined by asking the patient to place the chin towards the shoulder and palpating the origin and insertion of the muscle on the opposite side.