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Align back without chiropractor11/9/2023 ![]() ![]() The muscles did their job gently, but persistently, and it fixed my stiff neck! Once I woke with a stiff neck, and had done this…a couple of hours later, I was just walking through the house and I suddenly felt my neck spontaneously pop back into place. I have done this a few times when I’ve had a stiff neck. He also shared with me that you can bite down on a wooden popsicle stick on your back left molars to get a similar effect on the neck muscles. I found the sleeping position, and sitting with your left hip pulled back to be very helpful, as well as consciously switching my weight to my left leg whenever I remembered to do so. This PRI Position Poster was a very helpful tool for me He also had me look up the Postural Restoration Institute website, so that I could see other suggestions for movements and positions that would help ‘balance’ my body, so that I wasn’t constantly over-using the right side. My cousin did some further stretches to my spine, but these are the main exercises that he had me do. I can usually recheck my alignment afterwards, and my hands will touch evenly. This is such a simple exercise, but it can really help pull things back into place. Hold that deep breath for a count of 5, and then relax your leg and exhale. Properly activating the diaphragm through deep breathing further activates the back muscles to realign when you breathe in deeply to your diaphragm, your tummy should pooch out instead of your rib cage. Now, take a DEEP breath, way down into your tummy…this activates the diaphragm (the sheet of muscle that lays just below your lungs, separating your upper chest cavity from the intestinal area). Focus on really contracting the muscles on the back of your left thigh. Push straight down with your left heel, as if you are trying to push your foot to the floor. ![]()
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