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3.7.1C. Non-specific techniąue to increase dorsal flexion with rotation to the right and lateral flexion to the left.

P supine. Alternative grip.

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

Grip: T’s right hand grips P’s occiput, with wrist and forearm supporting P’s head against T’s chest. 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 ftex 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.

Notę;: 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

. 50 b. Finał Position.

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