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Lower Cervical Extensor Activation Taping

This video shows how to apply lower cervical extensor activation taping for improved neck and head posture. Learn how to apply taping correctly for maximum support and improved posture in minutes.

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00:04 - 00:07This is Brent of the Brookbush Institute, bringing you another taping
00:07 - 00:11video. In this video we're going to do a kinesiology taping technique that I use
00:11 - 00:19to reinforced deep cervical flexor, or cervical retractor activation exercises.
00:19 - 00:23These are for all those individuals with neck pain, cervical dysfunction, that
00:23 - 00:28forward head posture, as well as some individuals with thoracic spine and
00:28 - 00:32scapular dyskinesis. Now the technique that we're actually going to use is not
00:32 - 00:37deep cervical flexor activation taping, but it's going to be lower cervical
00:37 - 00:44extensors taping, and we'll explain that as my model Melissa comes out here. Now
00:44 - 00:48let's just use our imaginations here for a second, so I want to reinforce this
00:48 - 00:53position, which deep cervical flexors longus coli, longus capitis,
00:53 - 00:57rectus capitis anterior, these are the muscles that we get thinking about. But
00:57 - 01:02to take those being that they're on the anterior side of the cervical spine, I
01:02 - 01:07would have to put tape I guess here, right, and then it would have to
01:07 - 01:11pull back that way, so that I reinforced this chin tuck position, and I don't know
01:11 - 01:14about you guys, but I'm not very comfortable putting two pieces of tape
01:14 - 01:20like this right, like if I actually want my patients to come back. So I think we
01:20 - 01:22need to come up with a different technique, and there's actually a
01:22 - 01:27technique I learned from Perry Nickleston over at the rock tape workshop, which was
01:27 - 01:31lower cervical extensors taping. So what we're going to do for this, is we're
01:31 - 01:36actually just going to put a piece of tape just over the front of the upper
01:36 - 01:40traps, at the angle of the of the neck here right, where that neck makes that
01:40 - 01:45bend. And then my lower cervical extensors, which lower cervical extension
01:45 - 01:51is part of that retraction that we need, to cue somebody to do, are the splenius
01:51 - 01:56and semispinalis cervicis muscles, which go down to about T5, T6. So I'm
01:56 - 02:04going to tape, and bring it all the way down, just along T5 T6. Now the only
02:04 - 02:07thing we have left to figure out, as you guys know I kind of don't like to put
02:07 - 02:10tension in the tape. I like to lay down the anchor with no tension whatsoever,
02:10 - 02:15use tape off tension, and then the tension that we put in the tape actually
02:15 - 02:18comes from putting them in as shortened position as
02:18 - 02:22possible. In this particular technique what I'm going to have you guys do, is
02:22 - 02:25you're going to kind of push somebody into a little bit of thoracic extension,
02:25 - 02:30not lumbar extension, but thoracic extension. Make sure their as chin tucked
02:30 - 02:36as possible, stand up in the kind of like this super posture position, and then
02:36 - 02:39you'll lay down the tape. This will be the shortened position for those lower
02:39 - 02:45cervical extensors. Now once again we have to move a sports bra around, we have
02:45 - 02:49to get the tape directly on skin. My recommendation is to have your patient
02:49 - 02:54or client for female, hold their sports bra down, and then you can go ahead and
02:54 - 02:59move the strap without risk of pulling their top down in the process, especially
02:59 - 03:05with the sports bra, because the elastic is usually pretty, pretty strong. Alright so
03:05 - 03:09I'm going to go ahead and pull that down, and you can do one side at a time. If
03:09 - 03:13you're only doing one side, or if you're doing both sides, pull both sides down as
03:13 - 03:18long as they're holding on, everything should be fine. Alright, now what I'm
03:18 - 03:22going to do is I'm going to create my anchor, once again 2 to 3 centimeters of
03:22 - 03:31paper, i'm going to tear off, and I'm going to fold back that other side. Put
03:31 - 03:36that right over the front of her upper trap here, at the angle of her neck. I'm
03:36 - 03:41going to cue her back into super posture again, no not scapular retraction,
03:41 - 03:45relax your shoulders. Yeah make sure they don't go into scapular retraction
03:45 - 03:49because that will make it tough to lay down the tape, and then you're going to
03:49 - 03:52go ahead and lay down the tape. I can use that little pull through the paper
03:52 - 03:59technique that i did in lower trap activation, and we see there, we end right
03:59 - 04:04at the spinous process of T6.
04:05 - 04:12I'll have her test it, how does that feel, good. Alright, now I'm going to go to
04:12 - 04:18the other side, there you go. Alright another thing you guys, I'm from the side
04:18 - 04:22just so you guys can see the tape, another thing that will make your female
04:22 - 04:25patients a little bit more comfortable, female clients a little bit more
04:25 - 04:29comfortable, is if you stand behind them rather than to the side of them, so that you
04:29 - 04:35don't have a view of their chest. That will also help. Alright so I'm going to
04:35 - 04:40put this tape just on the anterior portion of their upper trap, at the angle
04:40 - 04:48of your neck. Cue her back into super posture, bring that down. I can use my
04:48 - 04:55pull the paper through to lay down the tape technique. Make sure I give the tape
04:55 - 05:02a little bit of a rub. You can use the paper just to kind of go over the tape,
05:02 - 05:04so you don't catch the tape with your fingers, and once again that's just to
05:04 - 05:08create some friction. Make sure i warm up the adhesive a little bit, because this
05:08 - 05:16is heat activated adhesive, and then once I have that tape in place, I'm going to
05:16 - 05:22make sure i replace her clothing without catching the corners. One thing that will
05:22 - 05:26get tape to come off very fast, is catching the corners of the tape with
05:26 - 05:32clothing. Alright you can go ahead and relax, how do you feel? Good, you can see
05:32 - 05:39her posture is here, and of course my hope is that, that cueing for lower
05:39 - 05:44cervical extension, as well as upper thoracic extension, will help keep her
05:44 - 05:49posture a little bit better. The stretch on the skin if she goes into bad posture,
05:49 - 05:54hopefully we'll keep activating these lower cervical extensors, which means a
05:54 - 05:59little bit more activity over time, even without me cueing her. Which hopefully
05:59 - 06:04leads to faster results by improving or carry-over from session to session. Thank
06:04 - 06:11you Melissa. So there you guys go, that is lower cervical extensor activation
06:11 - 06:15taping, which generally i use to reinforce deep
06:15 - 06:21cervical flexor, or cervical retraction exercises, for those individuals with
06:21 - 06:27neck pain, cervical dysfunction, or forward head posture, occasionally
06:27 - 06:31individuals with upper body dysfunction, but I know is stemming from the upper
06:31 - 06:35thoracic spine. I hope you guys enjoyed this video. I look forward to bringing
06:35 - 06:39you many more techniques in the future.
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