What is "Forward Head Posture"?

Forward Head Posture or FHP affects nearly everybody, yet hardly anyone understands the serious long-term physical and mental damage it can cause.

Your neck is literally the BRIDGE between your head and your body. It’s the balance beam from which good posture flows.

As the main connector between your upper torso and skull, the neck has the crucial task of cradling the body’s computer — the brain.

Not only does Forward Head Posture give your back that ugly hunch and crouched-over look, it also causes much deeper, serious problems.

Although there are a number of major muscles in the neck and back, there is one “vital” muscle at the front of your neck which does all the lifting and that muscle is the sternocleidomastoid.

When your sternocleidomastoid is strong and supple, your head sits perfectly upon your neck.

This muscle is the key to your postural health.

When you see how deeply connected the muscles around your neck and back are to each other, you realize there has to be a right order in which to exercise these for optimal effect.

If you don’t, you’re wasting your time doing ANY stretching. You need to hit the muscles from different directions using a combination of exercise techniques to target them properly.

Once you know the right way to do it, you can learn to fix your head posture on your own in 15 minutes per day!

Forward Head Posture Fix is a 15-minute sequence that utilizes a combination of different techniques to unravel the neck muscles using the following:

MUSCLE RE-EDUCATION DRILLS

If your neck has been thrust forward for too long carrying too much weight, it needs some serious re-alignment. These drills re-educate your muscles to put your head in the right position again.

BREATHING EXERCISES

Deep belly breathing helps release tension in the neck, shoulders, back, and whole body so your muscles will relax and help balance the head and body.

 MOBILITY EXERCISES

The more your head moves forward, the more your joints lock up. Mobility movements are used to unlock the joints in your spine to decrease stress and damage.

DEEP CERVICAL FLEXOR TRAINING

The cervical flexors are located at the back of your neck, and their weakness causes your head to drop forward. Recent research has shown that retraining the flexors is the key to restoring your head's balance.

SELF MASSAGE

This therapeutic technique loosens up and lengthens muscles that have become shortened and helps to relieve trigger points that have built up.

STATIC STRETCHING

Static stretching targets shortened muscles to lengthen and elongate them. Done in the correct sequence, it can be very effective.

POSTURAL STRENGTHENING

Now that we have unraveled the head, neck, and upper body by targeting all the muscles and joints affected by FHP, we need to work on keeping things in that new, ideal beneficial posture.

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