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121. Neck pain assessment, clinical reasoning & rehab. Physio Edge podcast with Prof Gwendolen Jull

Physio Edge podcast with David Pope

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How to Train Cranio-Servical Flexibility

A head lift is in advance so the first one when you're training cranio-servical flexion we know from research that it becomes a bit of an imbalance between the deep and superficial flexors. Once patients can do that then when you introduce head lifts etc you're adding load which will strengthen both the deep and shallow muscles. The only thing I'd ask for them is to regularly retest so if they've become very creative in a particular exercise just retest to make sure in fact it is working. A good contraction really nice guides there and ideas for how people can start to incorporate that into other activities or movements like rotation or any of those type of things.

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