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Cervical Extensor Self-administered Static Release

Say goodbye to neck pain with cervical extensor self-administered static release. Learn to safely perform this 10-minute guided exercise that can reduce tension and improve mobility in your neck.

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00:04 - 00:08This is Brent of the Brookbush Institute, bringing you guys self-administered
00:08 - 00:12cervical extensor release. These tight muscles, or these muscles that have a
00:12 - 00:17propensity to get short and overactive right here in the back of my neck. I'm
00:17 - 00:20going have Melissa come out, she's going to help me demonstrate some of the stuff
00:20 - 00:24I've used in the past that wasn't particularly effective, as well as what
00:24 - 00:29i'm using now. So i know a lot of us have had neck pain. I have to think that neck
00:29 - 00:34pain is almost as common as low back pain, especially in those that work
00:34 - 00:39behind a desk. I know all of us have tried a foam roll, because we all know
00:39 - 00:43that foam rolling muscles that get very overactive generally feels good. But if
00:43 - 00:47we stick a foam roll behind her neck, number one our head is not in a great
00:47 - 00:52position, and then I think we've all kind of figured out that what hits the foam
00:52 - 00:57roll first, is the spinous process of all of our cervical vertebrae, and those
00:57 - 01:03cervical extensors actually exist in the trough between
01:03 - 01:07the spinous process and the transverse process. So we need something
01:07 - 01:13that fits in here. Now I've seen a lot of people try to fix that problem by going
01:13 - 01:21to something like a tennis ball. But a tennis ball has a problem, number one is
01:21 - 01:25one of two things usually happens, I usually either find that my clients and
01:25 - 01:29patients do this thing, right so they roll away from the ball which then
01:29 - 01:33takes pressure off, and now I don't have that pressure to get the release. Or they
01:33 - 01:37do this thing and press into the ball, and now the muscles I'm trying to get
01:37 - 01:42the release on, are active which means I'm never going to get a release. And then we
01:42 - 01:47got a little more sophisticated with stuff like this, but even this has
01:47 - 01:52problems because of the lordotic curve in the neck, unless you are a really
01:52 - 01:58small person something like two tennis balls together, or two racket balls
01:58 - 02:04together, just doesn't work very well for the cervical spine. And then I ended up
02:04 - 02:09running across this. This is a 'twin blocks pro' from 'massage blocks'. Now I
02:09 - 02:14know I don't do product placement very often, but literally guys this thing has
02:14 - 02:20solved my cervical extensor release problem. Every patient or client I've
02:20 - 02:25given one of these to, to take home to support their corrective exercise
02:25 - 02:30program for cervical dysfunction, has raved about this product. I actually
02:30 - 02:35have one of these in my workout bag, to help manage my cervical
02:35 - 02:39dysfunction. And what you're going to see here is is there's two bumps right, so
02:39 - 02:45these two bumps help me get around the spinous process right. So it fits right
02:45 - 02:51into those two troughs, and then it has the height to get into that lordotic
02:51 - 03:01curve. and we can start right up here, in those suboccipital muscles, and hold that
03:01 - 03:06until it goes away, and Melissa is smiling, she's liking this product. The product is
03:06 - 03:11also a little rubbery and a little soft, so it's not really really aggressive.
03:11 - 03:15Sometimes I've seen products that people use for release techniques and they're
03:15 - 03:20literally so hard that you can't relax. Well if you can't relax you're not going
03:20 - 03:25to get a release, and the one I teach my clients and patients to do is they just
03:25 - 03:31keep moving this thing down one segment at a time. So now I'll try it there, right
03:31 - 03:37give them 30 seconds, 60 seconds there, and then move it down a little further,
03:41 - 03:46alright. So now we're more in the mid-cervical spine now, and then we
03:46 - 03:51can get pretty close, we'll call it the upper portion of the lower cervical
03:51 - 03:57spine, maybe we're at C5 at this point. She lies her head back. Good, we get a
03:57 - 04:02release there, and then we get a little bit more bang for a buck from this
04:02 - 04:11product because it actually does this, right so now I take it off this base, and
04:11 - 04:20I can keep right on going, on down the cervical thoracic junction, and it feels
04:20 - 04:24pretty good all the way down to T3 to T4.
04:29 - 04:34And what I think you guys will find is once again, unlike these products that
04:34 - 04:40use like two lacrosse balls right, which almost don't give at all. This product
04:40 - 04:47gives just enough that you can relax, you can get a release. I can tell you from a
04:47 - 04:51physical therapy standpoint, I know some of my physical therapists out
04:51 - 04:55there will agree, I also am less concerned with this product doing
04:55 - 05:01something like displacing a rib as i get down into the thoracic spine. Some of
05:01 - 05:04those products out there are definitely a little aggressive, and I've had some
05:04 - 05:09people kind of kind of almost do more damage with the product than good. This
05:09 - 05:16one we don't have a risk of that because it's nice and soft. We could actually use
05:16 - 05:21that all the way down the thoracic spine probably all the way down to T8-9
05:21 - 05:26without a problem. You get a lot of bang for your buck guys with this little
05:26 - 05:32product. I think they're running about 45 bucks. So once again guys this
05:32 - 05:39is self-administered cervical extensor and even the thoracic extensors release here
05:39 - 05:44with the 'twin box pro' from 'massage blocks'. I'll go ahead and throw the link
05:44 - 05:49down in the comments section of this video, and maybe we'll even throw an
05:49 - 05:54annotation on the video at the end here so you guys can click on that. I'm not
05:54 - 05:59trying to to push a product here, and I'm not getting paid by massageblocks.com
05:59 - 06:03by any means to create this video. I just finally found a product that I really
06:03 - 06:07like for cervical dysfunction, and I wanted to share it with you guys. I hope
06:07 - 06:11to hear about some great results. We will follow this video up with some
06:11 - 06:16cervical mobilization with the massage blocks, which I think you guys are really
06:16 - 06:19going to enjoy. I'll talk with you soon.
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