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hi guys in this video we’re going to

talk about the best stretch for a

whiplash injury now of course you’re not

going to do this right after the injury

I’m talking about like a chronic post

whiplash injury that you’re still

suffering from that you’re not healing

okay and even if you’ve ever been in a

car accident before you can apply this

stretch there’s two basic stretches now

I’m not going to be talking about the

stretch that you would do if you’ve got

t-bone from the side there’s really two

things I’m going to talk about if you

had a rear-end collision or a front-end

collision okay if he was rear-ended the

impact from the back the first thing to

happen is his head’s going to go

backwards okay and he’s going to tear

and injure the ligaments on the front

part of the neck okay if he’s hitting

something or something’s hitting him

from the front the first motion is going

to go forward with the neck and he’s

going to tear all the ligaments in the

back part the problem with ligaments is

that they heal with scar tissue

they don’t have a lot of blood supply so

therefore you get stiffness as you get

older so what you’re left for left with

is just basically an inelastic tight

kind of a connective tissue which you’re

going to have to just stress to create

more space

okay now let’s if you have an injury

from behind okay and the neck went

backward and you damaged the front part

of the neck the stretch that you want to

do would be forward the opposing side so

we want to stretch the forward and he

can even take his hands on his neck up

here and gently go forward and stretch

come up forward okay so I’ll show you

right here so you’re going to just

basically stretch right here

stretch right here you can do that about

10 times do it several times of the day

and it’ll give you give you a lot of

relief now if he actually hit someone

from the front or something hit him and

the head went this way and you tore

everything from the back he wants to

stretch backwards to stretch all these

muscles so

for this one you can take your forehead

and just kind of stretch back like this

and I like to just kind of I like to

take my chin and you can do it like this

and you can just take your chin

underneath your chin and stretch back

and relax okay and what you’re going to

do is you’re going to stretch all the

opposite muscles and ligaments on the

front part and you’re going to give the

back part a chance to come out of that

tightness so we’re always stretching the

opposite side that was damaged okay so

it’s counterintuitive but it really

works so again if you got hit from the

back your head goes backwards you tear

all the front things you’re going to

stretch going forward okay

don’t stretch backwards it’s going to

hurt or if you got it a front-end

collision you had went forward you

damaged all the back part you’re going

to stretch backwards like this okay does

that make sense you might want to just

review this video so go ahead and do it

put your comments below and tell me how

much better your neck feels thanks for

watching