Simple yet incredibly effective exercises to eliminate neck tightness and pain! Presented by a physical therapist, this daily stretching routine will improve your neck mobility, decrease tightness, and help with your neck pain. Click SHOW MORE to read more!
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(Time markers for each exercise are included below for your convenience!)
Neck tightness often leads to neck pain… and many times they both show up together!
Whether it’s due to an accident or injury (whiplash, sports, etc) or it came on gradually over time (desk job, poor posture) neck pain is annoying, painful, and can often be debilitating.
In fact, neck tightness and pain is one of the most-common complaints that I see in my physical therapy clinic.
Fortunately, not all hope is lost! The right stretches can help to eliminate your neck pain and make you to feel better!
In this video, I’m demonstrating four of my favorite stretches to help eliminate neck tightness, increase your range of motion, and ultimately help you to feel better. I’ll even include a BONUS fifth exercise that will help not just treat your tight neck symptoms, but actually addresses the cause of your pain to help improve your condition.
It’s important to remember that your neck moves in three planes of motion. It can move forward/backward, it can move side-to-side, and it can rotate left and right. You may have good mobility in one or two of these motions, but be totally limited in the other!
It’s crucial that you stretch in each one of these movement planes in order to maximize your results and decrease your neck tightness and pain.
Of course, as with any health/wellness routine, consistency is key with these neck stretches! Come back and perform these day after day, week after week, and I know you’ll see the improvements you’re seeking!
PLEASE NOTE – the exercises presented in this video are for educational purposes and are not intended to be treatment for your specific neck condition. If you have any numbness or tingling down your arms they may not be the best exercises for you. Furthermore if any of these exercises causes pain I encourage you to stop and consult a local physical therapist or other professional for help.
DAILY STRETCH ROUTINE FOR NECK PAIN
0:00 INTRODUCTION
1:00 CHIN TUCKS (SUPINE)
2:06 CHIN TUCKS (UPRIGHT)
2:46 EAR-TO-SHOULDER (TRAPEZIUS) STRETCH
3:53 SMELL-YOUR-ARMPIT (LEVATOR SCAPULAE) STRETCH
4:46 NECK ROTATION STRETCH
6:44 POSTURAL CORRECTION
HOW OFTEN SHOULD I STRETCH MY NECK?
For maximum outcomes the exercises in this video should be performed 2-3 times daily. Keep in mind that stretching should be very comfortable and none of these should cause you any pain.
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