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so that you don't miss anything. Can you adjust your own neck?
Well whether you can or you can't the question is, is it a good idea? And the
answer is no. It is typically a really bad idea to adjust your own neck and
when we say adjust then I'm talking about the people that you might see out
in public sometimes on a bus or a train or whatever and they grab their head and
they give themself a nice big lever and they just yank and twist and they get
that pop what's wrong with that is that it's an adjustment that has very very
poor precision is very very unspecific So what happens is you'll typically have
a several segments next to each other and there'll be one segment that is
stuck and then that's the one that you feel tight and that feels that gives you
the tension and then you yank and twist and what happens is you'll have a
cavitation you'll have a movement of the joints above and below so you're
adjusting the wrong joint and over time so it feels good because you get that
pop but in the long run it gets worse because you're creating hypermobility
above and below and that tight move that tight segment is getting more stuck
than ever so I would recommend you find a chiropractor who can adjust
specifically and move the segment that needs to move. Now what you can do is
that if you do it carefully if you just stretch in general if you sit down and
then you stand up and you really stretch and you get a pop or two that's not a
bad that's just the body kind of self
adjusting as you as you move about and if you're stretching and you kind of
move your neck carefully and you give yourself a little stretch and it pops a
little bit that's not a big deal that's just your body self regulating
self-correcting but if you start pulling and yanking and trying to get the pop
then that's not a good idea something that you can do however is if you go to
a chiropractor or not if you do then in between adjustments you can support the
adjustment by doing little stimulations yourself but without the popping so what
you do is let's say you have a really tight neck and you find a tender spot if
you find a really tight spot and you rub it a little bit and then while you're
rubbing it you start doing some movements so your band forward you bend
back you turn to the left you turn to the right and as you're
doing this you're combining the proprioception the incoming signals from
the point of rubbing you're adding to that the signals from the motion so now
you're giving the brain more information about that area and it's not as
effective as an adjustment but it can give the brain a little bit of
information to get by in between adjustments you can do the same thing
for the lower back so if you have some some stiffness just find the spot where
it's tight whether it's on the sacrum or low back and then you can walk in place
you can shift your weight a little bit you can do a little hula circle with the
hips you can kind of arch your back and tilt your hips forward and back move a
little bit while you're rubbing and then you're adding the proprioception from
the rubbing to the motion of moving the active motion and it's not as effective
as an adjustment again it can provide some very very useful and
some relief for information for the brain in between adjustments so I do
that when I feel a little stiff if I'm out traveling if I'm driving than any
time I go to a rest stop then I'll get out of the car and I'll do these things
I'll do the three winged friends which we have another video on I'll do the
rubbing on my back the hip stretches just because I'm sitting so much that
there is very little proprioception the body gets stiff when you sit that long
so once you have a chance you want to create a little movement a little
increase in signals and that way you get through the quick trip much easier and
at the end of the trip you're not going to be as stiff as if you just sat all
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