Range of Motion Exercise

Daily Range of Motion Exercise from Healthstar Chiropractic in Millwoods, Edmonton.

I want to teach you how to do some neck exercises. So, for those of you with neck issues, one of the big things we want to do is an adjustment that unlocks the joints.

We use our hands and specific instruments to create motion in your spine and there are some simple exercises that we want to give you to help maintain some of the Correction we made. This movement is good for your joints in general. It’s not just about pain, but it’s also both preserving your joint function.
This exercise in the video link below is one of the easiest ways and think the easiest things you do at home. So after the adjustment, you’ll notice you’ll have more range of motion, and the more you can keep that range of motion, the better off you’re going to be. We have these simple exercises where you’re turning your head to your right as far as you can. Then, you turn your head left as far as you can. Hold it in each direction for about 20 seconds. Then you tilt your ear to your shoulder on each side. As well, don’t forget to bring your chin to your chest and also look up at the ceiling for the 20 seconds.
Besides that, make sure you continue to breath all the way through it and allow your ]neck to go as far as you can go while you’re breathing.
Here’s the link to the video:

Neck Band Exercises

Neck Band Exercise

Neck Band Exercise from Healthstar chiropractic in Millwoods, Edmonton.

So, what do we do the adjustment? We are unlocking the joints using our hands and specific instruments…this creates motion in the joints.

One of the things that we always want to do is give you things to do at home. So, one of the great things that you can do is what we call Pro lordotic neck exercises.  After we adjust you, we’ll take some of the pressure off the spine, increase the range of motion of your joints and this neck band exercises will help allow you to maintain your correction.  Do maybe 4 to 10 repetitions of each variation of the exercise.  The video link is attached below.  The band will be put at 3 different areas in your neck (again, see the video).  Start with the band at the bottom of your neck, then you move it up to the middle of your neck, and finally it will be placed right up underneath the back of your skull.  You’ll use your arms to push straight out across while extending your head backward (looking up toward the ceiling).

If you got the time, it’s always wise to also start going straight back with your head but also add a little side movement (again, see the video link below) in all three band positions. And then of course what we do to the right side, we’re going to want to do to the left side as well back like this. So, essentially this exercise really shouldn’t take you more than a couple minutes a day.