I was doing the neck stabilization exercises wrong.
WRONG!
My neck has been sore because I was applying too much force, but dude, I wanted to feel the muscles working.
::sigh::
So now I place only the pads of two fingers against my head instead of my palm. Due to my previous overzealousness, I feel my neck muscles working with just the slightest amount of pressure so I guess it’s all good.
Though I still feel like Carnac the Magnificent when I do them.
Tony the PT Nazi piled on more exercises and just as I was thinking JESUS GOD when am I going to find time to do all this, he said I only have to do them once a day. When he found out I was doing last week’s exercises 3 times a day, he tried not to laugh. He was unsuccessful.
He said he only has people perform the exercises once a day because if they think they’re supposed to do them more, they often can’t fit them into their busy schedule, get discouraged, and don’t do them at all. So once a day is sufficient, and I can even break them up and do them a few at a time at different times throughout the day.
Then he cracked my bones.
I’ve only been to a chiropractor once a long time ago so I forgot how bizarre it is to have someone crack your bones. He said it shouldn’t hurt, to which I replied I would prefer “wouldn’t,” and then he was nervous. Smart, Sheila, real smart: make the big man who can crush you with his bare hands nervous. Well done.
But he didn’t crush me. He had me cross my arms over a rolled up towel, “roll a little towards me,” rocked me back and forth a bit while pressing his weight down on my crossed arms and then did something – I have no idea what – and CRACK! And it didn’t hurt a bit.
He said he would crack me in a different location next week and I begged and begged him to do it now because I wanted to hear the noise again but he said no.
Party pooper.
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