This last variation is optional moving from position 1/2, let your head fall back (in the direction behind your shoulder) to open up the front neck musculature.Keeping the neck same as position 1, rotate your chin towards your left shoulder, hold for 5 breaths.While seated, lengthen through the crown of the head and then laterally flex the neck to bring left ear towards left shoulder.#2 Levator Scapula Stretch (with Upper Trapezoid and Scalenes). Repeat 10 times holding for 5 seconds at the bottom of the movement. Keeping the back of the skull in contact with the surface you are lying on, on an exhale make double chins by flexing your neck and pressing the back of the neck towards the floor. Bend the knees to release the lower back. Prolonged neck congestion can cause neurological pain, numbness and tingling in the arms and fingers as the nerves for the upper limb come out of the neck vertebra. This muscle is hyper-contracted with paddling, and can also cause headaches and/or shoulder pain. Neck pain from surfing can also arise from a muscle called the levator scapula, which attaches the neck to the shoulder blade. This physical stress can cause headaches and chronic neck pain. This can create stress in the area below the skull, called the sub-occipital area. It can also be rotated in one direction or the other depending on the direction that the surfer is headed. The neck is held in extension for long periods of time when paddling and looking out at the wave sets. I have researched three areas of the body that can suffer after these sessions and compiled a list of yoga poses to help repetitive strain injuries from surfing. This means we can safely assume that most of the repetitive strain injuries come from paddling. Let’s start by taking a look at what surfing entails! Paddling and sitting on the board take up the majority of the time in the water, while riding the wave itself takes up less than 5% of the time. Since these are the more common type of injuries we’re likely to come into contact with, I’m going to dive deeper into discussing them. Traumatic is like the time I fractured my ankle surfing in Tofino, and then more commonly, repetitive, manifesting in the form of a strain through overuse. There are two categories of injury that can be sustained by surfing: Traumatic and Repetitive. It only made sense to merge two passions to better educate myself on both. Hi there, my name is Genieve Burley, I am a chiropractor who deals primarily with sport, and I recently developed a deeper desire to know surfing from an injury standpoint.
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