24min:21sec. A gentle intro neck rehab exercise session with discussion of neck pain, causes and treatments. Do full video 3-4 times per week, with self guided shortened versions 2-3 times/day until NO MORE NECK PAIN. Progress to next step for shortened version.
Neck Rehab Level 1_SL
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Hello, Dr. Jed here. This video is on
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Neck Rehabilitation exercises level 1.0. Okay
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to begin with a couple things.
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These series of movements and exercises are
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most specifically designed for long-standing neck
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pain that is chronic neck pain not
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not specifically designed for if you\’ve
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recently been in a car accident had a serious injury or if you\’ve experienced
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a recent sudden increase in your neck pain, particularly,
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if you have neck pain radiating down into
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your arm, you need to be seen and evaluated by your physician. Okay,
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so now we\’ve got that out of
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the way.
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Let\’s see here.
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Another concept is if any of
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these exercises any of these movements cause a
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sudden increase in pain then to begin
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with a gentle modification and then if you
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are unable to reduce or eliminate the pain through the
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simple modification
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You stop the exercise that particular exercise is not
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for you will work around it will do other exercises moving forward.
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Okay, so now another foundational
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concept that is
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We\’ll call it foundational sitting and that is
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sitting upright. We\’re gonna work to balance
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shoulders back Palms up head balanced
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over the cervical spine.
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Now the reason for this I\’m going to turn in profile
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here now the reason for this
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Working on this foundational sitting that is
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Palms up. It opens up the fascial tissue
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the connective tissues on the front side
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of your shoulders and chest shoulders back.
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Balancing the head is that we are working to counteract
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the the typical human
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State the typical human state is hands-forward ice
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forward intention forward these days technology gets
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a bad rap, you know, we say, oh computer spent
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too much time doing this too much time doing this cell phones
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even worse going like this bringing that
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head forward shoulders rounded. Sometimes that\’s
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even called technique now.
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While technology has certainly exacerbated this situation
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it\’s been going on since the Donna time.
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I mean thousands of years ago, perhaps somebody\’s
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sitting on the ground doing food preparation skinning and
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animal Building A Fire it is the human State
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hands forward intention forward shoulders rounding
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neck forward. However, that chronic
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condition can cause pain. Okay. So
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once again, we\’re gonna go over that
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foundational City,
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And I want to go over a particular concept.
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So shoulders back approximately aligned with
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the spine the head which we
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might consider a bowling ball balanced on
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the cervical spine. So if you\’re
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a really tricky person you might be able to balance a
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bowling ball on a broomstick. That\’s what
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we are attempting to do with our head the average
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head weighs, perhaps 10 to 14 pounds about
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bowling ball range and if it
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is balanced perfectly
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on your cervical spine, then there
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is
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No need for long-standing muscle
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contraction. If the head is moving forward
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falling forward. Then the only way they head
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does not fall off. The body is loading the connective
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tissues and chronic muscle contraction and
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that causes pain. So again, and again, we\’re
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going to talk about foundational sitting shoulders back.
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Head balanced over the cervical spine.
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Okay. So now that we\’ve got those things out of the way, let\’s move
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into the series of movements and exercises. So
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Number one. Let\’s go over what I call cervical Facet
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Joint Glides. Okay. Now we\’re
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going to do that foundational sitting up nice
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and right it feels oftentimes as
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if your chin is lifted, but typically
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that actually is just aligning it appropriately. So
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let\’s begin that we
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let\’s assume that we have a little Pinocchio nose here and we\’re
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going to
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Make a little to you.
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Make a smiley face.
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Okay. Now I\’m assuming that you\’re doing this with me. So we
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are just doing our rehab exercises now,
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okay.
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far off to the side
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nice and high up
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down
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cross over
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And up let\’s do that a couple more times.
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So you can\’t rush this you need to go nice and slow
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nice and easy.
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the reasons for this are many but some
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are that the cervical facet joints
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that is you have a series of two posterior
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joints.
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At every cervical level.
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Sometimes with chronic pain we\’ll just do
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one more here up.
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and over
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Now we\’re gonna go back to Center. Once again Center ourself
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shoulders back balancing the head
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and now instead of the Pinocchio nose drawing
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that you we are
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going to
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Make a frowny face.
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down
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up
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over
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And down.
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We\’re gonna continue that a little bit and I\’ll
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continue my discussion about the facet joints.
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While we\’re doing this so you keep your motion nice
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and smooth.
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Sometimes during chronic pain.
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Parts of the body go into muscle spasm and
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stop acting normally.
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Some of your facet joints stop moving normally.
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And at which case they stop making appropriate synovial
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fluid.
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Which makes the joints?
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gum up Grime up and it
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Moves in the direction of making arthritis. So moving
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side
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And down.
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side
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And down.
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That moves all of our small little facet joints
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and it sends the physiologic message to freshen up
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the cartilage and the synovial fluid inside of
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our joints acting so
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to speak to take a little oil can and oil
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up each of our little joints. Okay. So that\’s
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our first exercise in today\’s series cervical Facet
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Joint Glides. Okay. So now we\’re moving to a tried
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and true. This is
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chin tucks and cervical retraction
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I\’ll just demonstrate this to you both this straight on
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and then the price see it a little bit better sideways. So
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to begin with in fact, I\’m just going to go right
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to sideways because that\’s really where the concept is. So once
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again the typical
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human condition whether it be computers or just
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anything is going to tend to have the head forward.
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Shoulders down shoulders rounded once again,
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let\’s return to foundational sitting.
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shoulders back
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and now we\’re going to pretend the head is forward.
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Let\’s put our
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finger right on our chin.
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Pull it straight back trying to make a double chin.
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let\’s do this about 10 times relax.
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Pull it back.
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One relax, and now once again we
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are we\’re not.
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Ducky, and I had him pulling back. We\’re not just looking up. We are
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chin back retractions double
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chin.
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and relax
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One now, we\’re gonna extend the
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length of hold. We\’re gonna go to counter five.
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pull back five
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Two one gonna do a couple more it\’s going
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to kind of 45 to where you are right now.
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once again chin back five
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chin back five
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three if you\’re trying to Bunch up and make
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yourself that double chin three.
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To one it\’s a little difficult to
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speak while you\’re a holding that good cervical retraction. Now you
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can do that and I encourage you to do that throughout the
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day if you\’re sitting at your desk even sitting at a stoplight
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driving take a few minutes and
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activate those muscles do some of those cervical retractions
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Okay, so
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Next let\’s move into some gentle stretches. Okay, so
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to begin with there\’s really easy
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just side to side. We\’re gonna imagine taking the ear to
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the shoulder.
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Just starting up nice and easy three.
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nice and easy the shoulder stays down.
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Okay. Now I\’m going to put that hand down and sit
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on the hand. We\’re gonna add a little bit of over pressure.
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switch it off.
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Sit on the other hand a little gentle overpressure.
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lengthen those muscles five
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very good
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one more time
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and stretch five
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last time sitting on that hand
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gentle stretch five
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one very good. Okay and always
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return to that foundational sitting.
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Shoulders back. I find that the Palms up really helps.
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Now it\’s going to do gentle rotation. That is keeping the
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head.
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More or less than that neutral position that chin
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about level.
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Twist it all the way over as far as you can if that\’s all you get. We\’ll just
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go ahead and call that a three.
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I was going to gently deepen the stretch and we\’re
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going to do a count of five.
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One now, we\’re going to add a
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little health care. I\’m going to gently use
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these fingers to pull my cheek
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here. I\’m going to use this hand on the back of my head up here
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to twist my head ever so
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gently
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We\’ll call this one 10.
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hold it if it\’s easy, you can go a little deeper if it\’s hurting then
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you ease off.
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two
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one
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release
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back the middle if you need just to gently mobilize
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yourself do but don\’t just drop your
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head and roll it around in a circle. Okay? Okay, once
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again use a couple fingers just on your
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cheekbone and this up on the back of your head and
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give a gentle twist.
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and
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nine
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eight
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six five
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two
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one
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Okay, very good. That is a cervical spine
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it rotations.
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Now let\’s do what I call the 45 and down.
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Okay. This one is actually for the elevator scapula probably
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the most commonly spasm of muscle
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in the body in my clinic. I do trigger point in those
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injections trigger point injections in those muscles quite frequently
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because it needs it. But this is
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how you take care of it. You look off to
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the side.
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drop that head three
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two one
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off to the side about 45.
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And down.
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three
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two
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one
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Now we\’re going to add to it just a little bit now the
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opposite hand. I\’m just gonna go behind me
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a little bit. I\’m even gonna grasp my chair. Okay, come over.
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I\’m gonna gently grab my the
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back of my head and just give a gentle pull
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lengthening this whole area. We\’ll
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give it a five.
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four three
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two
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one gently come out of there.
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All of these motions you move between them very gently
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so I\’m reaching behind me.
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And I\’m reaching up here.
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45 and down
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five four
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three
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one
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once again gently come out of there. If any of these exercises feel
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particularly good for you. Then you
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remember those specific exercises and do them more frequently
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throughout the day. Okay. So moving along
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now.
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We are now just doing easy extensions and
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for this I need a towel.
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Anyway, what we do here is we
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take a towel as you can see right here in
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my hand.
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and
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I\’m just going to go corner to
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corner.
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Give it a little pull here and put this
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behind my head. Okay, so this
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is called a cervical extension just
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a gentle cervical extension. I\’m going to start with it very
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low down on my neck. We\’re gonna progress low mid
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upper. So right now
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just across the base of my
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cervical spine gently pulling forward to kind
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of pin the cervical spine and I\’m just gonna look up
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as much as I recently can.
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Call that a five.
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four
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three two
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one
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relax now. I\’m moving the towel up just about mid cervical
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spine.
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Grabbing and a gentle pole and lean
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the head back.
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five
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four
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three
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two
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one very good. Now I\’m gonna bring it up almost
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just right underneath the base of my skull really moving
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back up into this. And now the towel is
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almost pulling it\’s not quite pulling straight up but up
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in 45 in front of me kind of keep that
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towel just underneath my school lean the
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head back five.
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four three
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two
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One, okay, very good. So once
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again if those field particularly
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good to you, then you repeat them. So for
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right now, we just completed a side to
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side the
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the rotations the side to side the 45
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and down levator scapula stretches and
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then we did cervical extensions. Now, what we\’re not
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doing is we\’re not stretching cervical flexion.
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Okay, we\’re not going to go into that because
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nine people out of 10
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have don\’t need this towel anymore nine people out
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of 10.
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These muscles are already overly stretched. So
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we are not going to stretch an
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overly stretch muscle at this time.
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So now we are going to oh, I
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just want to briefly talk about a couple other good
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stretches that you can do throughout the
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day and it is to further open up this area. This is
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called doorway stretches. So it\’s exactly it sounds like maybe as
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you step through a doorway.
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Grab the the sides of the door Lean
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Forward opening up that chest. In fact
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right now. I can just do it. You can do it right here without a doorway. We\’ll
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hold it for five.
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four three
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two
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One that\’d be called the low stretch this be called
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the high stretch. Now this one you got to be a little careful. If you have any
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rotator cuff either issues if this causes
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shoulder pain, then you got to be careful to situate situation, but
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you might place your hands on the doorway and lean forward
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we can do it just fine without a doorway five.
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four
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three two one very
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good. So now we\’ve done gentle
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mobility of the joints. We\’ve done
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gentle stretching.
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We\’ve activated some of the key muscles by
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doing those cervical retractions. Let\’s just
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add in a couple key.
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Muscle strengthening exercises that
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will help you maintain the correct cervical and
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thoracic posture to keep that
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pain at Bay for the decades to come.
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Okay, so to begin with let\’s do what I
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call scap-backs or shoulder squeezes. Once again,
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this one probably works best in a profile view
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here.
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And my scapula my shoulder blades you\’re going
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to imagine them squeezing together. So once
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again in that foundational sitting position,
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I\’m gonna squeeze those shoulder blades together for good
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five.
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four
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three
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two
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one
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let\’s do a five second hold times five, okay.
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five
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four
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three
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to
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one
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And squeeze kind of look lift that
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head up.
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maneuver that neck around feel
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the bowling ball balance
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on the broomstick
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feel your head balanced on your cervical spine release.
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As you work and strengthen the foundation on
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which your head sits. That\’s
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what we\’re doing right now scapular stabilization.
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strengthening up the muscles on a thoracic
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spine
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to better facilitate
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stable cervical spine
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Let\’s do one more and squeeze five.
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four
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three
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two one very good.
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I go over those.
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Those scat backs and shoulder squeezes
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much more extensively in my postural Series. So
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to follow up on that check out in there. So now
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we\’re going to segue to a cervical
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extension exercise. Okay, so
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to begin with a concept on this
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one, okay.
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So to begin with technique if
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you weigh, if you may leads to these muscles
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overly stretched too much
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study these muscles overly stretched. I
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was plagued by neck pain right there during medical school. I tried
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every postural modification. I could standing
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desk all kinds of things. But it again
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and again the head was too far forward. These muscles
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were overly lengthened and stretched.
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These next series is cervical
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extensions. I call them
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reverse head nods. So you might
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sit her to chair oftentimes. I like to put my feet
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well out in front of me you lean forward if
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your body can lean forward more or less as far
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as you can brace yourself sturdly on
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your knees. Don\’t allow your head to Sag
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just kind of straight up and down.
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I know you\’re going to gently.
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lift that chin
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and bring it down about a half inch.
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with the chin
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bring it down about a half inch now once again.
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all of these exercises
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are very specific.
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And if you\’re specific pain does not respond well
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to any specific exercise you modify or
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just do a different exercise.
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Do this in a few more times down?
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And up really lift that chin.
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squeezing feel attention at
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the base of your skull
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between your cervical spine and your
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occipital bone of your skull.
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Drop it. Let\’s do a few more times.
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five
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four
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three
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two
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why?
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squeeze by
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four
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three
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two
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one relaxed. Okay, very good.
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Now we\’re gonna come back up to that foundational sitting
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position and we\’re just going to repeat both
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of those exercises. Once
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again this time the scat back instead of
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just down here. Let\’s do it a little higher. So the arms up squeeze
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those shoulder blades head nice and
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high five.
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four three
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two
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one and relax
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squeeze those shoulder blades together
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This time let\’s do a little cervical retractions with it. So chin one,
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two, three, four, five.
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Relax squeeze the
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shoulder blades pull the chin back three.
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Two one one more
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just like that squeeze chin down
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make yourself a double chin three.
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two one
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Relax, come back out of that. Go back to that foundational sitting
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position Palms up.
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Shoulders open relaxing the anterior
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musculature and feeling
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the tightness between your shoulder blades feeling the
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balance of your head.
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Okay. Once again, we did quite
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a few exercises today. This is a nice basic set.
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If you\’re feeling good and not overwhelmed by it, I\’d hit replay and
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do it one more time. Even right now. Sometimes people
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get extra benefit by doing this short series
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of exercises, perhaps two even three
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times throughout the day. Okay that
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does it for Neck Rehabilitation exercises
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level 1. I\’ll see you next time.