Optimize your neck rotation with Lift Clinic’s team of physio, chiro, RMT and strength coaches!
This post will focus on reinforcing exercises used to improve strength and mobility in the neck rotation movement pattern.
The ability to rotate your neck through a full range of motion is important for the health of your neck and for optimal control of your arms. Neck rotation is also important in everyday life for things like shoulder checking when driving!
This post is a continuation of our blog series on our full body assessment. If you haven’t already, visit our blog page to learn more about how we assess and treat other movements in the body.
For any given movement pattern, our treatment approach follows 4 primary steps:
- Assessment
Techniques used to test ranges of motion and find the root causes of limitations
- Reset
Hands on treatment techniques used to improve & restore limited range of motion
- Reinforce
Exercises or self treatments that help maintain the gains made from the reset techniques.
- Reload
Exercises that develop strength, resilience, and coordination for the desired movement pattern.
3 reinforce and reload exercises to take neck extension to the next level:
1) Banded chin tuck + rotation
2) Quadruped neck rotation
3) Cervical Controlled Articular Rotations (CARs)
What's next?
Congratulations, you’ve completed the final component of treatment and exercise for neck rotation. Now that you can perform at 100%, go on and use these new mobility and strength gains to chase your goals!
If you haven’t already, check out our assessment, reset, reinforce, and reload posts in this series!
