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Do Neck Exercises Really Help?

Neck exercises are the conventional approach in treating neck pain or stiff necks. If you've already visited a therapist for your problem, then I'd guess you'll have a set of exercises to do each day.

However, from personal experience as both a sufferer and now a teacher of The Alexander Technique, I would say in most cases these exercises don't really help.

This is because, if you've got a stiff neck you'll have lost your natural range of movement and struggle to do the exercises anyway!

In fact. more exercise could make matters worse.

Try my 'exercise' further down this page and see if it helps

Are You Wasting Your Time?

The accepted wisdom is that pain may be due to muscle weakness or imbalance, if you have eliminated other causes then this is the most likely reason.

But how do your neck muscles become weak in the first place? You can accept that doing exercises for your neck will have an effect on the muscles. But what about the other ninety-nine percent of the time? What you do with your muscles away from your exercises will have a far greater impact.

I believe that many cases of neck and shoulder pain are due to poor habits of movement. These habits include wrong use of the muscles causing some to work too hard whilst others do little.

Constant use of your neck in this way will obviously lead to uneven development. If you have not yet tried my body awareness test click on the link below and you may be surprised at the result.

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How you move your head and use your neck muscles will be based on the picture you have of your body. The exercise below will help you to redraw this picture and therefore start to change how you move and ulimately the strength of the muscles. Good use of your body during your everyday activities will readdress the imbalance issues without the need for separate exercises. If you do your exercises based on your old inaccurate picture of where you head and neck meet, they will serve only to re-enforce your poor habits.

Body Awareness & Movement - The Neck

This is not a neck exercise, more of an experiment that will give you a new experience of moving your head in a different way.

1. Place your both index fingers in the groove behind your ears - the joint your head moves from is roughly in between your two fingers and almost level with your eyes.

The point where the two lines cross in the photograph on the right.

2. Leave your fingers there and move your head to the left with as little effort as possible. You should be able to do this without the shoulders moving. The objective is to get the head moving with the absolute minimum amount of effort enabling you to experience movement in a different way.

3. Now look down without your neck dropping forward.

4. Move your head up and down like a see-saw pivoting from the point you located in step 1.

5. Be aware that your neck should not be supporting the weight of your head; let it's weight pass through your body into the chair or floor beneath you.

This can take a huge amount of stress and tension out of your neck and reduce considerably stiffness and pain.

Did it help? - find out more here

When you next do your neck exercises, check whether you are moving your head from this point, or more importantly, do you really need to do them at all? If you can use you head and neck correctly your muscles will soon re-balance themselves and in the majority of cases where muscles are a factor, real improvements are possible.

There are 15 simple exercises, similar to the one you've just done, in my ebook. I can show you how to sit, stand, walk and do whatever you want to do without placing unnecessary stress on your neck.

I can guarantee that you'll not have seen this 15 unique neck 'exercises' before, yet any one of these could be the answer to your problem.

Download the ebook with special bonuses and posture assessment for $27. For more information on this offer please click here.

Your Neck and Posture

A weak or stiff neck can be the result of a poor neck posture. This places undue stress on your neck, shoulder and upper back muscles leading to fatigue and the all to familiar aches and pains.

Exercises for your neck do not ultimately correct neck posture. This is because how you sit, stand and hold yourself are down to habits - and exercises don't change habits!

To check yours, click here.

Want to ask a question?
My view of what fitness means and how it can be attained is different to the conventional approach. If there is anything on this page that you would like to follow up please feel free to contact me

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