Welcome to part 6 or this 7-Part Neck Pain Relief Series. These neck exercises may be appropriate for you if you have a lack of cervical lordosis or neck curve, herniated disc, chronic neck pain, cervicogenic headache, cervical disc degeneration, arthritis in you cervical spine, a pinched nerve, spondylosis or just want to maintain a healthy cervical spine and nervous system. If so, you are about to partake in a journey of stretching, strengthening, massaging, nerve flossing, balancing and neurologically enhancing your cervical spine. Keep doing the series as long as you need and even do your favorites over and over for maintenance. Please ask any questions you have in the comments and, if you like a video, post it to social media to help others. In this video you will use a rolled up towel or the Pro-Lordotic Neck Exerciser as a fulcrum to extend your head back and push into your neck curve. The Pro-Lordotic Neck Exerciser provides resistance while encouraging the lordotic curve in your cervical spine. You will activate your cervical extensor muscles and even your deep cervical neck flexor muscles. Imagine a tool that both mobilizes and strengthens at the same time. It is the most utilized tool in my chiropractic practice and 99+% of people will benefit from it. After a car, bike, snowboard or other type of accident, the anterior longitudinal ligament can tighten and we can lose the lordotic curve that we had in the womb and that we were born with. This causes a deleterious traction force to be put on your spinal cord which can but stress on your whole nervous system resulting in a plethora of problems. The Pro-Lordotic Neck Exerciser pushes into the lordosis and can help re-stretch or elongate the anterior cervical structures like the anterior longitudinal ligament. This even helps hydrate thinning degenerated discs, breaking–up adhesions or scar tissue and encouraging imbibition or a drinking-in of fluid into the spinal structures from the surrounding tissues. This is an excellent “warm-up” before any postural/structural corrective chiropractic and is a stand-alone benefit to your spine and nervous system.
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Dr Fields is a practicing chiropractor in Northern California. He can be reached for telehealth or in-person visits by going to www.fieldsfamilychiro.com and clicking "book online".
0:00 Intro 0:03 Day 6 of 7 Neck Pain Relief Series 0:10 The Pro-Lordotic Neck Exerciser 0:39 Circles 1:42 Lateral Stretch with Arm Circles 2:31 Active Resistive Stretching 3:02 Lateral Stretch with Arm Circles 3:45 Active Resistive Stretching 4:15 Posterior Strengthening 5:03 Flexion Stretch 5:20 Rowing 7:53 Chin Tuck Lateral Flexions 9:07 Pro-Lordoctic Exerciser
