27 Jan Seated Chin Tuck – Rotation
HOW: Perform a chin tuck by pushing your chin backwards while thinking of elongating your neck. From here, rotate your chin to one side and then the other while maintaining the chin tuck. FEEL: You should feel your upper neck muscles working. COMPENSATION: Maintain the chin tuck...
05 Nov Seated Chin Tuck – Overpressure
HOW: Start in an upright seated position. Begin with a chin tuck by pushing your head backwards over your shoulders using the deep neck muscles. From here, place one hand on your chin and the other on the back of your head. Push into your...
04 Nov Neck Protraction – AROM
HOW: Start in an upright seated position. Use the deep neck muscles to push your head forwards and then backwards without moving your shoulders or upper body. FEEL: You should feel the deep neck muscles working to move your head forwards and backwards. COMPENSATION: Make sure you...
27 Oct Neck Side Bend – AROM
HOW: Start in an upright seated position. Without moving your upper body, tilt the top of your head to one side. Think about bringing your ear down to your shoulder. FEEL: You should feel your neck muscles working. COMPENSATION: Don’t rotate your head while side bending. Don’t...
27 Oct Neck Rotation – AROM
HOW: Start in an upright seated position. Without moving your upper body, look to the either side while only using your neck muscles to move your head and not your shoulders or trunk. Perform to whatever side is prescribed. FEEL: You should feel your neck muscles...
27 Oct Neck Flexion – AROM
HOW: Start in a seated position. Begin to look down slowly and isolate the neck muscles to tilt your head down for the prescribed amount of reps. FEEL: You should feel your neck muscles working. COMPENSATION: Only allow motion in your neck, don’t let your trunk to...
27 Oct Neck Extension – AROM
HOW: Start in a seated position. Begin to look up slowly and isolate the neck muscles to tilt your head up and back for the prescribed amount of reps. FEEL: You should feel your neck muscles working. COMPENSATION: Only allow motion in your neck, don’t let your...
27 Oct Chin Tuck to Neck Extension
HOW: Sit up nice and straight in a chair. Start with a chin tuck by pushing your head backwards over your shoulders using the deep neck muscles. From here, begin to look up towards the ceiling and slowly get out of the chin tuck tilting...
27 May Seated Neck Anti-rotation
HOW: In a seated position, loop a band around your head at the forehead level. Grab the opposite side of the band, cross it, and bring your elbows up to shoulder height, creating an X. Perform a chin tuck and with one hand try...
05 Dec Neck Circle – Small
HOW: Begin the exercise by getting yourself set up in good posture sitting upright looking straight ahead. Then perform clockwise small neck circles, begin the movement by dropping your chin down, then lower your right ear down towards your shoulder, then turn your chin...
