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