This simple stretching exercise can help alleviate many back and neck pain symptoms and free up the shoulders.
Floor angel stretch.
Try these four stretches first thing when you wake up to energize your body.
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Lie faceup with your knees bent and feet flat.
The shoulder is the most movable joint in the body.
If the wrists come forward off the wall or are unable to touch the wall then there is an upper quarter imbalance.
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Floor angels for thoracic extension try these floor angel stretches if your shoulders are rounded and your thoracic spine is more prominent than it should be.
Stretching your pectoralis major muscles and activating your rhomboids trapezius muscles will allow your shoulder blades to move back towards the spine rather than hanging out.
It was shown to me by a physical therapist and i use it frequently for myself.
Wall angels can be done either against a wall or on the floor floor angels.
This exercise stretches lengthens pecs and strengthens shortens rhomboids and.
Floor angel with foam roller prehab rehab exercise.
Morning stretches are basically a warm up for your day.
A wall angel is a stretching strengthening exercise that can be used as a functional assessment for upper crossed syndrome.
Floor angels neck tension range of motion shoulder tension stretch wall angels.