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Summary: Learn how to perform an interior neck muscle stretch in this free video on neck physical therapy.
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Monica Paradise Monica Paradise works at Industrial Hand and Physical Therapy in Phoenix, Arizona. She graduated from Northern Arizona University with a degree in exercise sc... read more
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Questions & AnswersHi, I'm Monica. This next stretch we are going to do is actually going to be for an anterior neck muscle. This muscle is called your sterno fido mastoid or for short is called your SCM and it is a muscle that is commonly injured during whip lash injury. So what we are going for this is it is a big muscle that starts down here and runs all the way back to this bony process, your master process in the back of your neck. So if we wanted to stretch out this right hand side here what you want to do is turn your head until you are pulling this process away and you are going to kind of lean to the side a little bit and then just let your head relax on back. So you should feel a nice stretch all right in through here. You can actually see the muscle tightening up a little bit. Now you are going to want to do the other side so the left hand side. You are going to turn your head to the left a little bit and just kind of bend over and back. Again you are going to be feeling it all right in here. Hold both of these thirty to sixty seconds.
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Monica your videos have been a great help for me. I recently had my neck fused from C3-C7 and was instructed to have therapy. Knowing the therapists in my home town are not that great, I went on the web and found your videos and I thank you for the help that you have given me.