If you have tension in your upper trapezius muscles when you get stressed
or you've got forward head posture then the technique that you're going to learn
today is going to help with both
Yo what's up Coach E here from Precision Movement and today I'm pretty excited
because I get to share with you something special that I've been working
on for a little while and that's a new mobile app and videos and techniques
designed and edited in a specific way that are going to be featured in the app
so I'm super pumped to demonstrate that for you today and I'd love your feedback
after you check it out so after you do check it out let me know what you think
about it the video editing style that is and give me any comments or suggestions
that might help me to make it better for you down in the comments down below okay
so this technique is a dissociation technique and it's going to help you if
you have tension in the upper traps when you get stressed especially it tense up
and you can get trigger points in the upper trapezius muscles and it also
helps with forward head posture so if you're walking around like this this
technique is going to help with both of those and it's a dissociation technique
so a dissociation technique is one that is featured in all of my control series
of course is shoulder control spine control etc etc and what it does is it
breaks those ingrained movement and/or activation patterns that you have that
can result in either dysfunctional movement or structural or dysfunctional
postures so this technique specifically when we get stressed and the upper
trapezius tends to tense up what happens with your posture is you get the forward
head so you're working out the computer you start to get that stress and your
head creeps forward towards the screen this technique is going to break that
okay so let's get into it right now the protocol is very very specific so
follow along work on it especially pay attention to the breathing and then
we'll come back and we'll break it down forward head dissociation from scapular
elevation start off by poking your chin forward giving yourself forward head and
then pull your chin in lengthen the surface
spine and elevate your scapula in this position hold for one slow breath and
keep activating the muscles to get into this range of motion release poke your
chin forward and then depress the scapula in this position activate for
one slow breath and repeat four prescribed number of reps so there you
have the forward head scapular elevation dissociation technique now you'll want
to do that for three cycles and at first if you have this issue where you get
stressed in the head juts forward or you get a lot of trigger points and tension
in those upper trapezius muscles do this on a daily basis for at least one week
and after that you can drop down maybe two to three times a week one to two
sets of three cycles and you're good to
go again this is going to help to break
that pattern so that every time you shrug your shoulders you're headed and
automatically jutting forward so if you're carrying some grocery bags you're
doing farmers walks you got a little shrug going on the upper trapezius
they're working you're still able to maintain that neutral spinal cervical
spinal alignment okay so like I said this video specifically is from my
upcoming mobile app called ROM COACH that's our ROM (Range of Motion) COACH and
this is something that I've been working on for the last five or six months since
September of 2019 and I'm very excited to get it into your hands we're kind of
nearing launch very very soon so if you're interested in checking out this
app it's gonna be free to download just visit the link in the card the
information button or in the description down below and if it's not yet live you
could sign up for the waiting list and if it is live you'll get a little
information about it and links to download it at the Apple Store and the
Google Play Store so there you have this technique to help with your forward head
or stress tension trigger points in the upper trapeze
so use this technique as I've prescribed to improve forward head decrease the
trigger points and tension that you get in your upper trapezius and make sure
that you don't carry around this dysfunctional pattern into other
movements and activities