Information About Neck Rehab Exercises

By Essie Osborn


Having a constant neck pain can be very stressing even preventing one from doing his normal chores. When the pain is severe and does not go away, a person should seek medical help. More often than not, an individual will be placed into a rehabilitation program for the neck to present it from coming back again.

Before the rehabilitation program is started, the doctor will first examine the pain one has. After which he will recommend various medication to be administered and the individual to get ample rest to reduce the pain. Once the pain has subsided, the neck rehab exercises and posture lessons can then be commenced. This will prevent the discomfort from reoccurring again.

The duration for this rehabilitation procedure can take few weeks to some months depending on how severe the problem is. But individuals should not be anxious about a slow rehabilitation process as this will reduce the healing time and prevents probability of re injury. After completion of this process an individual will gain knowledge which will guide him to avoid neck injury problems.

A lot of the rehabilitation exercises comprise of stretching and strengthening activities. By doing these, a person will increase the flow of blood to his neck muscles, reducing pain and spasms, while building stamina. Some of the rehabilitation activities are discussed below in this article.

To start the exercises are the motion activities and examples of these are; neck extension and flexion, chin tucks, head rolls shoulder rolls among other processes. A person begins with a shoulder roll which is like a warm up activity. This is done by placing both arms on the side lifting the shoulder then rolls them in a circular way ten times. During the head roll, the arms are also at the side and head rolled sideways ten times in a repeated manner.

When it comes to the extension activity, one has his chin pointing upwards to the ceiling and down repeatedly, a number of times. The flexion process is the opposite of extension as one will be having his chin pointing downwards towards his chest. This is repeated 10 times after which one takes breaks and then continues with the repetition. As for the chin tuck, an individual stares straight forward and uses the fingertips to push the head back and forth repeatedly.

Stretching activities are also numerous. For instance there is the upper trapezius stretch targeting trapezius muscle which connects the head and shoulder. To do this a person will have to sit in upright posture and place the right arm at the back. Then using the left arm, a person gently tilts to the left his right side the head. The stretch should be held for 15 to 30secs and repeated to the other side of the head several times.

Another kind of stretch is scalene stretch. Other than the stretching procedures, other activities include; head curls, hands and knees extensions among other process aimed at making the neck muscles strong and healing them in the process. After a person has fully recovered it is advisable to stay fit by getting into safe aerobic activities.




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