Sentences with phrase «neck positioning increases»

Because incorrect head and neck positioning increases the likelihood of injury, the best prevention involves knowing and practicing proper strengthening and conditioning techniques.

Not exact matches

Since your son just turned 4 months I would not be worried that he is not consistently rolling yet or pushing up on extended forearms, although I would try to increase his tolerance to belly time as much as possible since this is the position that will most benefit him in developing the neck and trunk strength that he needs to complete these skills.

Proper head positioning can help you prevent injury and generate more force, but looking at the ceiling during heavy squats squeezes the spinal discs in your neck, hyperextends the neck, forces the hips forward prematurely, increases knee flexion and can easily result with neck pain and injury.

The head is a very heavy object and if you position it just a few centimeters the wrong way this can considerably increase the work the muscles of the back and neck have to do.

Fascinatingly the authors discovered that tablet use increases mechanical demand on neck muscles by 3 - 5 times more than a neutral position.