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3.7.IB.

Non-specific techniąue to increase dorsal flexion with rotation to the right and lateral flexion to the left.

P supine.

Starting Position: P: Supine; head beyond end of couch with shoulders at couch edge; shoulders and thorax may be stabilized with a belt. T: Standing at head of couch, to the left of P’s head.

Grip: Ts right hand grips the right side of P’s occiput to fix P’s head between T’s right forearm and chest. T's left hand stabilizes P’s left shoulder against the couch.

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

Stimulation of Antagonists: T retains grip, and asks P to look upwards, to the rear, and as much as possible to the right, and then move his/her head further in the direction just stretched. T resists that movement to stimulate P’s antagonists.

Notes: T may find the complex movement of this techniąue morę easily performed using both hands to guide motion; see techniąue 3.7.1C, p. 66.

The finał position may move the vertebrae into a locked position.

Therefore, T must cautiously use successively smaller forces and movements in approaching the finał position.

Fig. 49 b. Finał Position.

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