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‘Rather than bending the neck forward or tucking the chin, the aim is to draw the head straight back over the shoulders, ...

Yoga isn’t the only way to improve your posture—exercises that stretch and strengthen your core, back, chest, and neck can ...

Neck and shoulder pain can be caused by poor posture, muscle strains, or degenerative conditions, which break down the structure and function of certain organs and tissues. Targeted exercises can help ...

Football is a contact sport. There is no way around it. Collisions occur on almost every play and the head and neck are often involved in these hits. These hits can jar the head forward, backward, to ...

Improve the longeivety and health of your neck and spine and prevent and alleviate neck pain with these three mobility exercises. You may not think much about neck and spinal health until you’ve got a ...

My work as a fitness writer has me sitting for hours and, despite having a good desk set up and an ergonomic chair, my posture inevitably gets worse throughout the day. If this sounds familiar, and ...

Exercises you can do to tone, strengthen, and thicken your neck include neck flexions, neck extensions, shoulder blade squeezes, and dumbbell shrugs. A thick, muscular neck is common among ...

If there’s one thing gaming and desk jobs have in common, it’s encouraging poor sitting posture. It’s practically an epidemic; so many of us are hunching forward for hours, staring at a bright screen, ...

A pinched nerve in your neck, also known as cervical radiculopathy, can cause pain, weakness, numbness, and limited motion, according to Cleveland Clinic. Your neck contains your cervical spine, which ...

An osteopath has shared his daily neck mobility exercise that only takes two minutes. Brendon Talbot, a Canadian health practitioner who specialises in bone and muscle tissue, recommended doing four ...