When you buy wireless noise canceling headphones, you are expecting nothing but the best and smooth sailing from there. The last thing you could have expected was that once you begin to use your very expensive headphones, you begin to feel pain in your jaw area, so can headphones make your jaw hurt?.With headphones, there can be a force applied on the this squeezing on your head which causes skull temporal tension, increase jaw bone pain, and for some even neck based tension.