0:04 This is Brent of the Brookbush Institute, bringing you another taping 0:07 video. In this video we're going to do a kinesiology taping technique that I use 0:11 to reinforced deep cervical flexor, or cervical retractor activation exercises. 0:19 These are for all those individuals with neck pain, cervical dysfunction, that 0:23 forward head posture, as well as some individuals with thoracic spine and 0:28 scapular dyskinesis. Now the technique that we're actually going to use is not 0:32 deep cervical flexor activation taping, but it's going to be lower cervical 0:37 extensors taping, and we'll explain that as my model Melissa comes out here. Now 0:44 let's just use our imaginations here for a second, so I want to reinforce this 0:48 position, which deep cervical flexors longus coli, longus capitis, 0:53 rectus capitis anterior, these are the muscles that we get thinking about. But 0:57 to take those being that they're on the anterior side of the cervical spine, I 1:02 would have to put tape I guess here, right, and then it would have to 1:07 pull back that way, so that I reinforced this chin tuck position, and I don't know 1:11 about you guys, but I'm not very comfortable putting two pieces of tape 1:14 like this right, like if I actually want my patients to come back. So I think we 1:20 need to come up with a different technique, and there's actually a 1:22 technique I learned from Perry Nickleston over at the rock tape workshop, which was 1:27 lower cervical extensors taping. So what we're going to do for this, is we're 1:31 actually just going to put a piece of tape just over the front of the upper 1:36 traps, at the angle of the of the neck here right, where that neck makes that 1:40 bend. And then my lower cervical extensors, which lower cervical extension 1:45 is part of that retraction that we need, to cue somebody to do, are the splenius 1:51 and semispinalis cervicis muscles, which go down to about T5, T6. So I'm 1:56 going to tape, and bring it all the way down, just along T5 T6. Now the only 2:04 thing we have left to figure out, as you guys know I kind of don't like to put 2:07 tension in the tape. I like to lay down the anchor with no tension whatsoever, 2:10 use tape off tension, and then the tension that we put in the tape actually 2:15 comes from putting them in as shortened position as 2:18 possible. In this particular technique what I'm going to have you guys do, is 2:22 you're going to kind of push somebody into a little bit of thoracic extension, 2:25 not lumbar extension, but thoracic extension. Make sure their as chin tucked 2:30 as possible, stand up in the kind of like this super posture position, and then 2:36 you'll lay down the tape. This will be the shortened position for those lower 2:39 cervical extensors. Now once again we have to move a sports bra around, we have 2:45 to get the tape directly on skin. My recommendation is to have your patient 2:49 or client for female, hold their sports bra down, and then you can go ahead and 2:54 move the strap without risk of pulling their top down in the process, especially 2:59 with the sports bra, because the elastic is usually pretty, pretty strong. Alright so 3:05 I'm going to go ahead and pull that down, and you can do one side at a time. If 3:09 you're only doing one side, or if you're doing both sides, pull both sides down as 3:13 long as they're holding on, everything should be fine. Alright, now what I'm 3:18 going to do is I'm going to create my anchor, once again 2 to 3 centimeters of 3:22 paper, i'm going to tear off, and I'm going to fold back that other side. Put 3:31 that right over the front of her upper trap here, at the angle of her neck. I'm 3:36 going to cue her back into super posture again, no not scapular retraction, 3:41 relax your shoulders. Yeah make sure they don't go into scapular retraction 3:45 because that will make it tough to lay down the tape, and then you're going to 3:49 go ahead and lay down the tape. I can use that little pull through the paper 3:52 technique that i did in lower trap activation, and we see there, we end right 3:59 at the spinous process of T6. 4:05 I'll have her test it, how does that feel, good. Alright, now I'm going to go to 4:12 the other side, there you go. Alright another thing you guys, I'm from the side 4:18 just so you guys can see the tape, another thing that will make your female 4:22 patients a little bit more comfortable, female clients a little bit more 4:25 comfortable, is if you stand behind them rather than to the side of them, so that you 4:29 don't have a view of their chest. That will also help. Alright so I'm going to 4:35 put this tape just on the anterior portion of their upper trap, at the angle 4:40 of your neck. Cue her back into super posture, bring that down. I can use my 4:48 pull the paper through to lay down the tape technique. Make sure I give the tape 4:55 a little bit of a rub. You can use the paper just to kind of go over the tape, 5:02 so you don't catch the tape with your fingers, and once again that's just to 5:04 create some friction. Make sure i warm up the adhesive a little bit, because this 5:08 is heat activated adhesive, and then once I have that tape in place, I'm going to 5:16 make sure i replace her clothing without catching the corners. One thing that will 5:22 get tape to come off very fast, is catching the corners of the tape with 5:26 clothing. Alright you can go ahead and relax, how do you feel? Good, you can see 5:32 her posture is here, and of course my hope is that, that cueing for lower 5:39 cervical extension, as well as upper thoracic extension, will help keep her 5:44 posture a little bit better. The stretch on the skin if she goes into bad posture, 5:49 hopefully we'll keep activating these lower cervical extensors, which means a 5:54 little bit more activity over time, even without me cueing her. Which hopefully 5:59 leads to faster results by improving or carry-over from session to session. Thank 6:04 you Melissa. So there you guys go, that is lower cervical extensor activation 6:11 taping, which generally i use to reinforce deep 6:15 cervical flexor, or cervical retraction exercises, for those individuals with 6:21 neck pain, cervical dysfunction, or forward head posture, occasionally 6:27 individuals with upper body dysfunction, but I know is stemming from the upper 6:31 thoracic spine. I hope you guys enjoyed this video. I look forward to bringing 6:35 you many more techniques in the future. 6:45
