Neck Pain Relief, Easy Stretches & Exercise – Dr. Berg

Watch as I demonstrate these easy stretches and exercises for neck pain relief!

hey guys Dr Burke here in this video we’re going to do a before and after on neck pain so you had a car accident about how long ago 10 uh it was in 2010 so six years ago wow so tell me you were sitting there did you see the other car coming no I was looking into the reval mirror and I was rear ended so I got whip blushed okay so when you’re rear ended your neck goes back first and then it whip backs forward right here so we get a lot of damage in the neck so right now uh you’ve been having a lot of neck problems right you have you have pain and stiffness right that’s correct so on a scale from 1 to 10 I’m sorry on a scale from 1 to 10 10 being very severe pain zero being no pain how would you rate it right now um probably 8 to nine wow now let’s take a look at the range of motion go ahead and um tuck your head forward okay that seems to be somewhat okay some yes okay now go back okay so it doesn’t go back so your neck is kind of stuck that’s right all right so look to the left look to the left okay and the right good any problem with that uh it seems okay okay all right so we got a problem in extension now the first thing we know that there’s damage from the Whiplash so and I can do that um but I want to make make sure that we really resolve this thing as fast as possible and of course I know that there’s two things that will cause a problem with the neck one is the neck problem itself number two is digestion okay I did find out she has a lot of digestive issues okay so we’re just going to first see how much of the digestion is keeping your neck locked up okay so to do that we’re going to do a little um work with the gallbladder so you you can lay on your back so we’re just going to do a little mild pressing over the gallbladder area now what’s happening the gallbladder right here has nerves that go right up into the neck and if it’s congested which it is that’s going to keep your neck really tight okay now we’re going to press the other side too why because there’s two nerves there’s one that go goes up here and this this one over here and they’re called the frenic nerves and they affect the the connect to the diaphragm and the organs underneath the rib cage and so if your pancreas is working too hard the gallbladder they can refer pain the hip bones connected to the thigh bone and I know this is uncomfortable so I’m going kind of light it’s okay okay so you can sit up for me and if you can sit back in the chair here all right so I just did a little work on the digest system and I want you to tell me the pain where is at at now it feels relaxed actually I feel like a big weight is off my shoulders actually H it feels great actually and and the back actually feels lighter wow too so it was at a I think a seven or seven or eight what is it now um pain probably a two a two that’s pretty good now go ahead move your head back let me see what happens to your neck okay is it going back a little bit better a little bit better okay so we knocked out some of the pain now here’s the interesting thing did you would you ever think in a million years it was connected to your gallbladder or your digestive system no yeah so this is going deeper into the system and I just already have done this a million times so I already know it’s connected but what’s interesting is like you can knock out so much problems with the neck by working on the digestive system and no one does this so I’m going to recommend that um she’s already I already found out what she’s eating she’s following all my videos so she’s eating good but I think what you benefit from is a little help with your stomach and the gallbladder just from nutrition standpoint because if you took probably the gallbladder formula and then alider vinegar plus before you ate that would allow her to eat more more complete digestion take the congestion of the gallbladder reduce this and your neck will feel better and better and better okay so that’s one thing I’m going to recommend now we’re going to actually clean up some of the injury from the uh car accident so let’s do that next um I have to first differentiate if the problem is in the neck or is it in the shoulder muscles because her neck muscles or shoulder muscles are like really tight and so is your neck so I need to find out what it is okay so I’m going to stretch your arms I’m going to stretch and you can relax your arms I’m going to stretch it up okay so what I’m doing is I’m stretching the muscles right underneath her arms relax your shoulders and I’m stretching as the person is relaxing stretching up what this is doing it’s relaxing all the upper back muscles now I want you to tilt your head back see if it’s any looser yes look at that come back up go back again is that better mhm yes it is so she has a lot of muscle problems in her upper back that are tightening the problem but she was in a whiplash so the first action was going back so she tore all the muscles and the tendons on the front part of her vertebra so we don’t want to do any stretching back okay unless she moves her head back the stretch you want to do is forward so what I’m going to do is I’m just going to stretch some of the muscles forward and I’m lifting the back of her skull up stretching forward like just like that we’re just G to do that like a few times I’m kind of isolating her skull and lifting and stretching the spine going forward now the only time I wouldn’t do this if she was in a car accident from the front end it’s real subtle okay now now tilt your head back let’s see what it is now okay good is that a little bit better at all it is better yes okay good so now the next thing we’re going to do there’s two collar bones right here and there’s two little muscles underneath there we’re going to stretch the collar bones not the collar bones but the muscles underneath the collar bones I’m going to take my hand and she could even probably do it with a massage tool but we’re going to show how to do it up underneath here so I’m going to have you tilt your head back forward good go back and forward forward good and back forward and back and I’m lifting one more time more time okay okay so let’s try it again on your on your own tilt your head back okay seems like it’s it’s doing okay so now there’s a couple other things that we’re going to do there’s a lot of muscles that go from this bone right in your neck up underneath the the chin and this these are very tender the this is what you can do yourself you can work on these muscles up underneath the chin so we’re going to kind of stretch those a little bit because think about it her neck is being pulled forward she’s not able to go back so all this is too tight so what we have to do is we have to stretch all the muscles underneath the chin which are connected to there’s a bone right here called the hyoid bone good it’s probably very sensitive okay good all right so we stretch that now I already know one of technique if someone can’t go back we go forward we stretch them going forward so what we’re going to do is we’re going to have you flex your head forward as much as you can good come up do it again and I’m just going to assist her just as as much as you can but just a little bit more so you always stretch the opposite muscles okay good okay you can bring your head back up now do you feel more relaxed yes I do um go ahead and tilt your head back and tell me what it feels like now it feels better actually there discomfort yeah so this is what I think that’s going on you don’t want to like do more than that per day but I would definitely you can do this on yourself get a massage tool or your hand and you work on these points right here that L they that gave you a lot of relief in your neck you work on your digestion you can stretch these muscles right here you can even take your head and stretch forwar