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JBG 
Yes, really. If there is a compressed or pinched nerve then an adjustment can help.
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anon your eyelids are controlled by cranial nerve 3 (which you can't get to by any sort of "adjustment" since it's in your skull) and cranial nerve 7, which exits just below your ear. unless they adjusted your TMJ, it was probably placebo
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JBG TMJ was adjusted during that treatment (did I say that a "BACK" adjustment would do it?)...all I know is that it worked for me, placebo or not.
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anon I'm not saying the chiropractor didn't help either, I just think it's important to know anatomy and acknowledge that it very well may have been placebo. If you're ok with that and the money was well-spent in your opinion, I say it was a successful treatment.
JBG, I'm saying that the chiropractor did not help. The facial nerve, which innervates the orbicularis oculi m. exits well behind you TMJ/mandibular ramus. It courses superficially, through the parotid, not through or next to your TMJ. As anon has already stated, cranial nerve III is way up in your head, no where near your TMJ or spine. Furthermore, eye twitching is more associated with lack of sleep, stress, excess caffeine, etc. I looked it up and couldn't find anything that mentioned pitched or compressed nerves. I'm pretty sure that your chiropractor was not the reason for your eye twitch subsiding. I cannot think of any mechanism (other than placebo) how it could have helped.
