Fix Forward Head Posture - Don't Make Nerd Neck Worse!

Will This Exercise Fix Forward Head Posture (or Make It Worse)?

Learn a home exercise to fix forward posture and how to avoid making it worse! By the end of the video, you'll understand the mechanics of your forward posture.

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00:00 Intro
00:29 What Causes Forward Head Posture
02:10 Exercise for Forward Head Posture
03:56 Warning
06:47 Programming
07:49 Closing Thoughts

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ABOUT THIS VIDEO
This video teaches you how to do an exercise to fix forward head posture. You'll learn how to do the forward head posture exercise, how often to do it, and how to prevent making forward head posture worse. If you've got hunchback posture or nerd neck, this video will explain how to correct it.

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[Uprighthealth]

What do you do on a daily basis that contributes to your forward head posture? Drop me a comment! 👇

[jeanneblackwell]

Very very helpful. Best part was what NOT to do. I thought I was doing what you said until you showed us how not to do it.. Yup I was doing it wrong and fixed it. Thank You!!

[hildamaclean]

Love the neck exercises…and short and concise videos.

[saz-]

Long time subscriber here. Good to see you back!

[Invincible_Viltrumite]

Great video man🎉
No one talk about neck axis rotation, but you did. now I feel much better strech on the neck

[chrisl]

This is terrific! I've started the exercise and hope to have less shoulder and upper back strain because my ol' bowling ball of a head won't be straining muscles the wrong way (and I won't look like I'm struggling to carry a boulder on my shoulders)!

After an exhausting physical job (between 4-8 hours standing/moving/etc in the medical field) I lay on my bed, chin toward my chest, head propped on a pillow, looking at YouTube. Pretty sure this posture is NOT great!

[wfrancis]

I love all his exercise videos. They are extremely helpful. I am clicking the “thank you” button.

[KenanTurkiye]

These ''forward head posture'' vids are always welcome as it is kind of like the digital-age pandemic. :)
I weightrain and sprint train a few times a week, and even I have allocated some of my gym time to correct my forward head posture with weight plates rested on my head and working my neck sideways and backwards, and doing exercises for my thoracic muscles and erector spinae to correct the kyphosis. So in summary! lol thank you.

[evelynkessinger]

Thank you for these great videos! I just found you and am excited to do these exercises the correct way. I've always been conscious of my posture for my whole life but want to maintain it also. Thanks again!

[kristinlohin]

Thank you so much for all of your videos!! This one was particularly helpful, but I have a playlist with at least 10 of your videos, as someone who has spent too much time in PT, they are all so helpful.

[yarazooom]

EXCELLENT VIDEO !!!

MABEL TODD holistic posture
''ears over shoulders [drop the nose],  
shoulders over hips [trocanter],  
hips over ankles [not toes].

[ralphhancock]

Kind of runs in my family. I've resorted to lying flat on my back several times per day to allow my upper thorasic vertebrae inner muscles to relax, so that my head posture doesn't have to compensate so much. If your upper back isn't so curved, it is easier for your neck muscles to maintain good posture. This works for me, and I'm 75, so it isn't impossible. I still find it difficult to remind myself to stay focused about it. I'm a runner, and poor posture pain sabotages my motivation to do long runs.

[terrywhite]

Putting my head back like that makes my vertigo far, far worse. Anyone with cervical instability or cervical related vertigo needs to really be careful doing these types of exercises.

[jwr]

Great content, I also like if you pull the skin on your chest down first before looking up as it seems to stretch better, you can also do the shoulder skin when stretching the side of the neck. I don't suppose you have anything for the jaw? Would love some good stretches as it holds a lot of tension!

[DarthNoshitam]

The ability to destroy a planet is insignificant next to the power of the Force

[EllyChoo]

Thank you so much! Great exercises and very important “don’ts”!

[jamesb]

Anyone know of a good way to load this kind of movement with an external load?

I know that weighted supine neck curls on a bench with a weight plate will build the anterior neck, but it loads the muscles through a fulcrum whose axis of rotation is lower in the cervical spine, which is not what I’m looking for. As Matt suggests, I want a way to do it with the axis of rotation high in the cervical spine.

Anyone know how this could be accomplished with a neck harness?

[alias]

Why not do weighted neck curls on a bench?

[cindyslavik]

How can I email you? I’d like to sign up for the program but need to see if my condition will be ok to do this

[sandrabasel]

I am a subscriber of the hunchback fix but my upper back is too rounded to do the sitting wall properly, I just cramp up all over. Ist here a variant lying on the floor to start me of? I kind of think the "static back" from Egoscue might be a substitute exercise for frustrated hunchbacks?
I will start on the forward head exercises, I am getting a little neck hump and the back of my neck is showing a forward curve. So much work to do, I wish I could find a good local therapist to help, I am constantly worried I am doing the exercises wrong eventhough I carefully watch the videos and have a few zears of live Pilates classes under my belt.
Thank you for your work!!