Name: Lower Cervical Extensor Activation Taping
Uploaded: 2023-04-26T01:00:27.000Z
Duration: 6 min 42 s

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Learn how to properly perform lower cervical extensor activation taping in this comprehensive step-by-step instructional video from the Brookbush Institute. This evidence-based video provides expert coaching on setup, positioning, alignment, and tape application technique to improve lower cervical extensor activation, potentially deep neck flexor activation, and cervical stability. Enhance cervical extension support and postural alignment while supporting optimal head and neck mechanics with this targeted taping technique. Perfect for athletes, fitness enthusiasts, and rehabilitation clients seeking to improve posture, enhance cervical stability, and restore optimal movement mechanics while reducing injury risk.

Introduction to Kinesiology Taping for Neck Pain

Rationale Behind Lower Cervical Extensor Taping Technique

Demonstration of Taping Technique

Taping Process and Patient Comfort Considerations

Post-Taping Assessment and Expected Outcomes

Lower Cervical Extensor Activation Taping

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

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