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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: T’s right hand grips P's occiput; T's right wrist and forearm and right side of chest support P’s head. T’s left hand grips P’s chin (without pressing on the larynx).

Procedurę: Using this grip, T applies traction, and then maintaining this traction,moves his/her body to gradually and fully dorsally 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 move further in the direction just stretched. T resists that movement to stimulate P’s antagonists.

Fig. 43 a. Starting Position.

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