Neck Instability or CCI in Hypermobile Humans Makes it Hard to Build Strength!
If you have cervical spine instability, you’ve most likely experienced the headaches, brain fog, and pain that accompany it. But many people don’t realize that other symptoms accompany the condition as well, such as:
Heavy head; it feels like you cannot hold your head up
Trouble swallowing; feeling of a lump in the throat; changes in voice quality
Cracking, popping noise in the affected area
Dizziness
Trouble hearing
Balance issues
Tingling and numbness of the face, head and neck
And many more!
While awareness of your body position and finding support for your neck and head is important, there are also gentle isometric neck strengthening exercises you can do when your body is ready! Bendy bodies with Thoracic Outlet Syndrome and hypermobile Ehlers Danlos Syndrome can benefit from them too.
While these are Pilates for hypermobility and Pilates for Ehlers Danlos exercises, it is always important to stay in a pain-free range of motion and do only a couple of repetitions to start with. Many hypermobile necks have never done targeted exercises like this using resistance so start small and slow in order to maintain consistency.
Remember that your neck and head are supported by the rest of your body so any strengthening and stability work you do there as well, is absolutely going to increase support and stability for your cervical spine.
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