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3.3.1A.

Non-specific technique to increase ventral flexion with rotation and lateral flexion to the right.

P sitting.

Starting Position: P: Sitting; right side of head supported against T’s right shoulder and chest. T: Standing oblique facing P’s right side.

Grip: T’s right hand grips the left side of P's occiput, and fixes it against Ts shoulder and chest. T’s left hand and forearm grip around P to the left shoulder, stabilizing it from the dorsal aspect, and applying pressure to stabilize P's right shoulder against Ts trunk.

Fig. 22 a. Starting Position.

Procedurę: Using this grip, T applies traction, and then maintaining this traction, moves his/her body to gradually and fully ventrally flex and simul-taneously rotate and laterally flex P's cervical spine to the right.

Stimulation of Antagonists: T retains grip. T then asks P to look and then move this/her head further in the direction just stretched. T resists that movement to stimulate P’s antagonists.

Fig. 22 b. Finał Position.

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