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we're going to be talking about a set of exercises called neck situps
these are muscles that are very commonly ignored in a good physical therapy rehab
program but they need to be strengthened to rehabilitate these should not be done
on postsurgical patients and should not be done on patients who have a large
herniated disc or narrowing of the spinal canal and cord compression these
are done for patients with neck pain that we're trying to strengthen the muscles
very simply neck setups are you're using the weight of your head
be the ballast or the counterweight to the strength of the muscle contraction
so if you watch sherrie here
she is actually using her head
as the counterweight and her neck muscles are contracting to lift her head
up and she's doing a very slow very easy maneuver
your neck muscles will get fatigued quite quickly with this and if you do
too many of these such as ten on the first day you almost have the feeling of
a neck whiplash because the muscles will be so sore so these should be done
very slowly and
increase maybe every two days for a short period of time until the neck muscles get
strong enough you can tolerate two or three sets of ten
sherrie's now demonstrating the anterior strengthening and then we'll go
ahead and demonstrate the posterior strengthening
we've already
discussed the
anterior neck situps or the front neck situps
now we're going to the reverse neck situps where we do the posterior muscles and
lift the head using the posterior
cervical muscles this will allow strengthening of the
extension portion of the neck and we do the same way as we do the flexion
portion of the neck
these muscles tend to be stronger than the anterior muscles for the next situps
so reverse neck situps will be a little easier to do and they'll be less
soreness nonetheless they're very important muscles to strengthen and you
can't do the front muscles without
the back muscles