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3.10.3.

Therapy for thc scalenus posterior.

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

Grip: Ts right hand grips P’s occiput and upper cervical spine (including the C3 vertebra), with the right wrist and forearm supporting P’s head. T’s left hand grips P’s chin (without pressing on the larynx).

Fig. 67 a. Starting Position.

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

Stimulation of Antagonists: T retains grip, and asks P to look downwards and to the left, and then to move head and neck in the direction j ust stretched. T resists that movement to stimulate P’s antagonists.

Fig. 67 b. Finał Position.

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