Do you find yourself hunching over while working or looking at your phone? Are you hunching over while reading this right now? If you suffer from chronic neck pain, this may be the root of the problem.
Slouching and slumping cause neck, shoulder and back pain. While we must always strive to improve our posture, it’s also really important to relax and to stabilize the shoulders.
The doorway is a perfect tool for this because it anchors the shoulders and repositions them allowing the neck to be free of stress. Also, using the doorway helps us elongate our spine and scoop in the transverse abdominal which provides core strength and stability.
This video shows five exercises to release neck pain while standing in the doorway. Throughout the exercises, push the doorway away with your arms positioned “east & west” while looking straight ahead to the future!
- Raise the shoulders up & down and then relax them down
- Look to the right & look to the left, rotating your neck
- Tilt the head to the right & tilt it to the left bringing the ear to your shoulder
- Look up & look down
- Pull the doorway down, raise your heels up and let the crown of your head reach towards the ceiling
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