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  2. 5 easy exercises for your head and neck to alleviate desk job ...

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    It shortens and tightens muscles in the neck, which can lead to pain and cause tension headaches. Do these exercises to help stretch and strengthen the muscles that support your head and neck.

  3. Progressive muscle relaxation - Wikipedia

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    Individuals should perform progressive muscle relaxation in a comfortable place. [16] A person can begin the exercise while sitting or standing. [7] It is important to breathe throughout the entire exercise, [7] because some sources recommend breathing in while tensing the muscles and breathing out as the muscles are released. [7]

  4. Relaxation technique - Wikipedia

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    It involves the effective and repetitive relaxation of 14 different muscle groups and has been used to treat anxiety, tension headaches, migraines, TMJ, neck pain, insomnia, bipolar disorder, anxiety, backaches, high blood pressure, etc. [17] PMR is a two-step practice that involves creating tension in specific muscle groups and then releasing ...

  5. Strain and counterstrain - Wikipedia

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    Within manual therapy, Strain-Counterstrain is a type of "passive positional release" [1] created in 1955 by Lawrence Jones, D.O. It is a hands-on treatment that attempts to alleviate muscle and connective tissue tightness by the use of very specific treatment positions held for 90 seconds (can be held for up to 3 minutes in neurological patients).

  6. Neck pain - Wikipedia

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    While neck pain is the second most common cause of disability and cost $100 billion, [2] the NIH budgets only $10 million to the study of neck pain. [3] One of the most common neck pains is between the neck and the shoulder. This is technically over the supraspinatus muscle and not in the neck, but it is still called “neck” pain.

  7. Stretching - Wikipedia

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    It may reduce the lactic acid build up in the muscles, making the next workout more bearable. [22] Stretching does not appear to reduce the risk of injury during exercises, except perhaps a dynamic warm-up for runners. While running places extreme stress loads on the joints, static stretching can help to improve joint flexibility.

  8. Dynamic Tension - Wikipedia

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    "Dynamic Tension" is the name Charles Atlas gave to the system of physical exercises that he first popularized in the 1920s. Dynamic Tension is a self-resistance exercise method which pits muscle against muscle. The practitioner tenses the muscles of a given body part and then moves the body part against the tension as if a heavy weight were ...

  9. Pilates - Wikipedia

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    Pilates was developed by Joseph Pilates from Mönchengladbach, Germany.His father was a gymnast and his mother a naturopath.. Pilates said that the inspiration for his method came to him during World War I, while he was being held at the Knockaloe internment camp in the Isle of Man. [9]