How To Do The Lateral Neck Stretch With A Partner Video

The lateral neck stretch will help relieve tension that builds up during the day. Learn how to do the lateral neck stretch with a partner in this fitness video.

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Ear toward shoulder
Hands on shoulder & head
Press away head
Pull shoulder

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Carol Childers has been a physical fitness trainer for twenty three years. She is experienced in yoga, pilates, sports conditioning, core strength training and nutrition. She currently works with clients all over the country.

With a stretch in the lateral position, it's a good way to elongate, taking shoulder to ear, a nice separation between the cervical and the delt. You get a lot of tension trapped up in there throughout the day, computer work, picking up the kids, just plain overall everyday activity. So you're going to have your partner sit in a nice upright position, and you're going to let them find their active range of motion by taking one ear towards their shoulder, and you want them to find their stopping point, that's their active range of motion, and then you would have your palm, the bottom on the meaty part of the shoulder, and then above that ear, you're going to press away. So you don't want to force that joint any further than it has already gone because you let them find the active range of motion, and then you're just using the energy to shoot it up to the top of the head and pull away in the cervical and the delt. You have them hold that stretch with breath, a good 10 maybe 15 seconds, and then you have them release it back into neutral, and then you can repeat that maybe a couple more times, and come to the other side, and again have them find the active range of motion with their ear to the shoulder first, and then again applying that passive resistance, not pulling against the joint but pulling away and elongating the muscle in the cervical, and the upper shoulder holding 10 to 15 seconds with breath each side.

How to Do the Lateral Neck Stretch With a Partner Video

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