Kit Laughlin – Overcome Neck Back Pain

Kit Laughlin  Overcome Neck Back Pain DVD

304 MB

This is the full 82-minute video stream from the original DVD, with on-screen cues and full audio instruction. The ONBP (as we call the book) Video Companion updates critical exercises and introduces 19 new exercises that are not included in the original edition of “Overcome Neck & Back Pain”.

* includes the full “Standing Leg-Length Test”
* the most important exercise from Overcome Neck & Back Pain: exercise 1 (seated lower back stretch)
* new seated piriformis stretches (two versions), demoed by Cherie
* new chair + bench piriformis, demonstrated by Cherie
* new improved solo floor hip flexor stretch, and can be done as a limber or a stretch (with contractions)
* full demonstration and description of the Floor Partner Rotation
* new table-top hip flexor stretch (modified Thomas test, but used to improve range of movement)
* full demonstration of the Practitioner partner hip flexor stretch; this can be used when one’s back is sore
* new Partner-assisted Side Bend (floor version). This is a more advanced exercise to be used once the original back pain has settled, but this is the one that will change your lower back’s propensity for further attacks of back pain forever. If “game changer” can be used to describe an exercise, this one qualifies. It is a much stronger version of exercise 1, Chair Side Bend.
* new exercise 14 (Chair Side Bend, but with partner assistance); perfect for anyone who can’t do the previous floor version
* new stronger solo floor piriformis. This version uses an object out to the side to pull on, and that extra force improves and intensifies the standard version.
* ex. 16, Partner Piriformis. Like the partner floor side bend, once you are ready for this one, it too is a game changer.
* the ‘Three Amigos’: homage to the movie of the same name, this standing stretch is an extremely effective middle and upper back stretch for computer jockeys (and isn’t that everyone these days?)
* exercise 19, Chair Rotation
* exercise 26, Chin to Chest. If you have a sore neck, start with this one.
* exercise 27, Lying Neck Side Bend. The complement to ex. 26, this exercise is one of the few direct stretches for the scalenes (look up “Thoracic Compression Syndrome”, TOC, or “Thoracic Outlet Compression Syndrome”, TOCS, for an elaboration of the problems that can be caused by this pair of muscles); this part of the exercise offers an unique way to stretch these often-problematic muscles—achieved without bending the neck to the side.
* exercise 31 is the strongest of the scalene exercises; and only to be done after the earlier ones have been mastered
* new exercise 38a: supraspinatus/middle deltoid. Supraspinatus is one of the four rotator cuff muscles, often problematic. If you have “frozen shoulders” (one or both) this is a must.
* new exercise 39, Partner ‘pec. minor’ stretch, involving “joint distraction” (modest traction on the joint) to relieve discomfort and to significantly strengthen the stretch. Pec. minor is always involved in rounded or slumped shoulders.

Please view this program with the ONBP book as the reference for exercise numbers.

All new variations are included, and both sides of the body are demonstrated, so once you have watched a few times, you can select your exercise, press Play and follow along. And the audio track has all the cues, too, so playing from your phone and using ear buds is also effective.

If you do not have any of our other programs, this video will show you the essential “how to do” any of the exercises in the book.

The printed version of the fourth edition of the book is available from all good on-line book stores.

The PDF version of ONBP is available at stretchtherapy.net/overcome-neck-and-back-pain-book-by-kit-laughlin/.