This added strain creates a ripple effect throughout the neck muscles and joints, laying the groundwork for tension headaches. Forward head posture places excessive pressure on the suboccipital ...

So forward and back is an important way to reestablish not just an emphasis on the muscles that hold your head forward, but also the muscles at the front of your neck that can pull it back.

Although it's usually associated with car accidents, any impact or blow that causes your head to jerk forward or backward can cause neck strain. The sudden force stretches and tears the muscles ...

Objectives To examine the correction of posture, increase in strength and decrease in shoulder pain and dysfunction in varsity swimmers. Design and Setting Randomised clinical trial. Participants ...

with eccentric contraction occurring mainly in the anti-gravity muscles such as the rectus femoris and the medial head of gastrocnemius. The forward and backward shifts in centre of gravity (CG) were ...