Bill explains why your brain locks neck muscles when eye movements feel unstable, then shows you how to fix it. Do rapid eye shifts between your thumbs for 15 to 30 seconds, then retest your neck tilt. Most people see immediate improvement in range of motion and pain.
Do you get pain in your neck when you tilt your head laterally like this? I'm going to show you how to fix that. Hi, I'm Bill from Beyond Fitness Online, and today we're going to use an eye exercise to make the neck more stable. The brain maps lateral neck stability based on eye speed, so if your eyes are not moving efficiently and appropriately, it will end up locking down muscles in your neck so that when you do try to move, it hurts because it wants to stay more stable. The first thing we want to do is assess our neck range of motion. So we're going to tilt this way. Now it might be helpful to do this in the mirror because there are compensations that tend to happen with this. We want to bring that ear towards the shoulder like this, and then the same way the other side. Make sure you're not rotating and trying to get further by doing this or by doing this. Really try to stay lateral or sideways with this. Also, don't forget to use your Snellen chart, this right here, to see if your vision improves while you do this. It's very common to see that once we do some eye movements that we can see more clearly. So I'm going to show you a really simple exercise to fix that right now. That exercise is called a horizontal saccade, and horizontal saccades are very simple. It's your eyes moving from one spot to another spot, and all you need are your thumbs. You're going to put them out in front of you, and you're going to stay nice and tucked with your chin, nice tall posture. You're going to look at one thumb and then immediately flip Flip your eyes to the other thumb, and you're gonna go back and forth between those as quickly as you can. Now, here's the key. Don't just fling your eyes back and forth. Make sure that you're seeing one thumb clearly before you switch to the next thumb. So, it's not uncommon to see people do it at this speed. It's important that you can see it clearly before you move, because now your eyes are going, okay, I see that. Boom. Now I see that. Boom. Now I see that. Your brain takes that and goes, oh, now I know we can move the eyes left and right. It's safer to move your head. We don't have to stay so stable right here. So when you're doing this, set a timer for 15 to 30 seconds and get as many switches as you can, and then take a rest and try to test your neck again. See if it feels better than it did before. And don't forget to go back and check your Snellen chart and see if your vision has improved. If you found this video helpful, don't forget to like and subscribe. If you have any questions or comments, leave them down below. I answer all of them personally. And until next time, live healthy.
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