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hey guys in this video we’re gonna talk about how to relieve neck stiffness and

neck pain okay so I have my friend right here and we’re just gonna kind of show

you some insights on what what’s behind stiffness of the neck okay now the first

thing you need to know is that 90 percent of all the motion in the neck

happen between the skull and the first bone right up in here okay so when you

turn your head most the motion is up here not down here

so that’s kind of what we’re going to be focusing on with this technique it’s

between this first bone called the Atlas and the skull okay so that’s number one

number two so you can see on this plastic model that there are muscles

tendons and ligaments that tightly connect the skull to the first bone

right here okay and the second bone as well so there’s a lot of muscles and

ligaments and tendons that are connecting these two right here and from

whiplash from injury they can get really really tight okay now one thing you need

to know is that if your digestion is off if you have a lot of constipation or

bloating there’s certain nerves that can go up to the brainstem and make make

this area very very tight in other words you can have a lot of neck stiffness

from your digestion so that would explain the people who do a lot of

massage and chiropractic to the neck but it keeps coming back over and over and

over in which case you would want to do some work on the digestive system I put

a link down below how to do that but in this video we’re going to talk

specifically what you do for this upper upper cervical area right here okay so

the first test we’re going to do we’re going to put our thumbs right underneath

your skull and we’re going to rock it back and forth to feel the motion and

you’re going to put your thumb on these little outer projections of the first

cervical vertebra called the transverse process okay so let’s go ahead and do

that right now so the first thing I’m going to do is we want to just take your

thumbs and kind of dish them underneath your skull okay right here and then you

want to kind of turn your head left and right

and what you’re looking at what you’re feeling is the symmetry or the movement

of the first bone and see if it’s moving from left to right so you’re gonna turn

all the way and turn this way right here so on me when I go this side I can feel

this does not want to keep going okay now chiropractic could fix this

pretty quick and I do recommend you find a chiropractor if you have an obstructed

or a lack of range of motion on this area however we’re going to just work on

the muscles right here so so the technique of this is you’re going to

take your thumb and you’re just going to stretch like three or four times into

the area of restriction okay and then you’re going to just kind of move your

neck around you’re gonna see it like opened up really really nice okay that’s

step one so you’re basically just isolating the area of lack of motion

getting it to move better stretching it and then we’re gonna do step two so in

step two what we want to do is you want to take these ligaments and muscles that

are connecting between the skull and the first and second bones right here and

we’re going to stretch these okay so this is more of a stretch and we want to

just separate the skull from this first bone right here so we’re going to do

with our thumbs and we’re going to be stretching up this way okay now if you

think about your head is on a little little rod right here and it’s rotating

like this right so we’re going to be stretching all these ligaments and

tendons from here all the way around in a circular manner right here so right

here we want to stretch this way here this way okay and then here this way and

then over here so we’re going to be stretching around the central point okay

so I’m going to demonstrate this right now okay so the first thing you do is

going to take your thumb and you’re just going to take right underneath the skull

and you’re going to lift and flex forward okay so you’re going to kind of

you’re separating out the distance between the skull and the first

a cervical vertebra okay so you’re gonna stretch it several times and you’re

going to insert them more to the midline and start to stretch it forward so

you’re tucking your chin in like this and you’re lifting the skull you’re

creating space okay now we’re going to inch a little bit inward this way and

come up this way up this way okay and come to the center

right here and then I like to take my middle finger right here I’m not

flipping you off but I’m going to take my middle finger and I’m going to take

my thumb and just kind of stretch it so I can use both hands and I’m lifting up

and going forward okay I’m creating a space and then I’ll take right here and

I’ll stretch this way this is the do-it-yourself version and I’m creating

just a space between here to raise that up okay so right now my neck feels like

one of those little heads in the back of the car like the neck is really nice and

loose so go ahead and do this right now pause the video and come back for step

number three now that you actually open the space through here okay number three

we’re gonna actually work on the muscles on the front part right here you have a

lot of different muscles and ligaments that are right underneath the neck that

go to the front part of the spine and we’re gonna stretch that out okay so for

this one you’re gonna just take your thumb okay up underneath this mandible

right here your chin and you’re going to just kind of press up underneath the

muscles it’ll be very tender and you’re just going to massage those right here

right here okay you’re gonna come right around and start working the muscles up

underneath this mandible okay and what I like to do is I like to take my the

muscles here and stretch okay you can do it one at a time

okay good so now quick little stress what we do is we kind of loosened up the

front part and now go ahead and move your neck around should be very nice and

loose so we release the front part and the back part this is a real quick way

of getting your neck really really loose so go ahead and try this and put your

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