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3.5.1.

Non-specific techniąue to increase dorsal flexion.

P supine.

Starting Position: P: Supine; head and neck beyond end of couch; shoulders and thorax stabilized with a belt. T: Standing at head of couch.

Grip: Ts right hand grips P's occiput, with wrist and forearm supporting P’s head. Ts left hand grips P’s chin (without pressing on the larynx).

Fig. 29 a. Starting Position.

Procedurę: Using this grip, T applies traction, and then maintaining this traction, moves his/her body with P’s head to gradually and fully dorsally flex P’s cervical spine.

Stimulation of Antagonists: T retains grip and asks P to look upwards and rearwards, and then dorsally flex to move his/her head. T then resists that movemcnt to stimulate P’s antagonists.

Fig. 29 b. Finał Position.

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