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3.6.1A.

Non-specific techniąue to increase dorsal flexion with rotation and later-al flexion to the right.

P sitting.

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

Grip: T's left hand grips the right side of P's occiput and fixes it against his/her shoulder and chest. T’s right hand and forearm stabilize P’s right shoulder from the dorsal aspect. P’s left shoulder is stabilized against Ts trunk.

Fig. 42 a. Starting Position.

Procedurę: Using this grip, T applies traction, and then maintaining this traction, moves his/her body to gradually and fully dorsaUy flex while rotating and laterally flexing P’s cervical spine to the right.

Stimulation of Antagonists: T retains grip, and asks P to look to the right, to the rear, and downwards, as if looking over shoulder, and then move his/her head further in the direction just stretched. T resists that movement to stimulate P's antagonists.

Fig. 42 b. Finał Position.

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