Week Six Practice: Integrated Flexion
Sound familiar?
Most people who suffer from neck pain feel their worst symptoms at the back of their neck and also in the “shneck” (my word for the area where the shoulders meet the neck). So they’ve been stretching and tractioning and rolling and massaging this area in an effort to get some (any) relief. But it hasn’t really helped has it? What if you need to address the tissues on the front of your neck? Some of these tissues are knows as the deep neck flexors. We do see that people with neck pain tend to be very stiff in the back of their neck and extreemely inhibited and weak in their neck flexors. This is just a fact. To feel better, we will need to re-educate these tissues and that is what this practice is all about. You may want to come back to this practice more than once. It is a very gentle and compassionate approach to renewing this vital balance.