{"id":1575,"date":"2021-04-07T16:54:15","date_gmt":"2021-04-07T21:54:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maracoreconditioning.com\/?p=1575"},"modified":"2021-04-07T16:54:15","modified_gmt":"2021-04-07T21:54:15","slug":"five-ways-to-release-neck-pain-in-a-doorway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maracoreconditioning.com\/news\/five-ways-to-release-neck-pain-in-a-doorway\/","title":{"rendered":"Five Ways to Release Neck Pain in a Doorway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Do you find yourself hunching over while working or looking at your phone? Are you hunching over while reading this right now?\u00a0 If you suffer from chronic neck pain, this may be the root of the problem.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Slouching and slumping cause neck, shoulder and back pain. While we must always strive to improve our posture, it\u2019s also really important to relax and to stabilize the shoulders.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The doorway is a perfect tool for this because it anchors the shoulders and repositions them allowing the neck to be free of stress.\u00a0 Also, using the doorway helps us elongate our spine and scoop in the transverse abdominal which provides core strength and stability.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This video shows five exercises to release neck pain while standing in the doorway. Throughout the exercises,\u00a0 push the doorway away with your arms positioned \u201ceast &amp; west\u201d\u00a0 while looking straight ahead to the future!<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"video-shortcode\"><iframe title=\"Five Ways to Release Neck Pain in a Doorway\" width=\"1300\" height=\"731\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7EHf2FaXmUU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Raise the shoulders up &amp; down and then relax them down<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Look to the right &amp; look to the left, rotating your neck<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Tilt the head to the right &amp; tilt it to the left bringing the ear to your shoulder<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Look up &amp; look down<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Pull the doorway down, raise your heels up and let the crown of your head reach towards the ceiling<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Interested in trying a class? We teach locally at our Newton, MA studio or via Zoom.\u00a0 Contact us to learn how we can design a program specifically for you! Phone: 617-852-6785 or\u00a0 Email: info@maracoreconditioning.com.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you find yourself hunching over while working or looking at your phone? Are you hunching over while reading this right now?\u00a0 If you suffer from chronic neck pain, this may be the root of the problem.\u00a0\u00a0 Slouching and slumping cause neck, shoulder and back pain. While we must always [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1576,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maracoreconditioning.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1575"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maracoreconditioning.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maracoreconditioning.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maracoreconditioning.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maracoreconditioning.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1575"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.maracoreconditioning.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1577,"href":"https:\/\/www.maracoreconditioning.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1575\/revisions\/1577"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maracoreconditioning.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maracoreconditioning.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maracoreconditioning.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maracoreconditioning.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}