Stop Stretching Your Neck! Do THIS Eye Drill to Turn Your Head Pain-Free

Does your neck lock up every time you turn your head? Stop stretching it and try this instead. Hi, I'm Bill from Beyond Fitness Online. Today, I'm gonna show you an exercise to help relieve stiffness in the neck when you move your head, and this exercise has also been shown to help improve vision in some people as well. The first thing we're gonna do is we're going to get an assessment of where we are. So, if you have a Snellen chart, which is this right here, You can post that on the wall and you can test your vision to get an idea of where your vision is. You can also test your range of motion in your neck. So you can turn your head left and right and get an idea of how far you're able to go, if there's any stiffness or pain in either direction, and also if you feel comfortable moving in either direction or if one makes you feel a little more nervous than the other. So now you've got your assessment. Now we're going to do the VOR drill. That stands for vestibulo-ocular reflex. What does that mean? Well, your vestibular system is your inner ear balancing system, and that tells your brain which way gravity is pulling you and how you are moving in relation to gravity. Now, your eyes do that as well. Your eyes tell you which way you're moving based on how the world is moving around you. And the visual system and the vestibular system work very closely together to tell your brain how you're moving and so you— and to keep you balanced. Now, if those aren't working well, Your brain is going to start to lock up certain muscles like in your neck and lower back, particularly anything along the spine. So we want to try and fix that problem if there's an issue there. So here's the drill. It's called a VOR. We're going to have a visual target. You can post a sticker on the wall or you can hold your thumb out in front of you. You're going to keep your eyes on that visual target the whole time. We are going to tuck our chin and we're going to turn left and right, keeping your eyes there. Do not let your eyes jump off of the visual target. Do that for 10 to 15 seconds and then take a deep breath and try rotating your neck again and see if it's improved at all. Now, if it has, great. If not, we're going to go to the second level of this. We're going to do the same exact drill with the thumb out in front of us or the target on the wall, and we're going to do up and down this time. Again, 10 to 15 seconds, then reassess your neck and see how it feels. If it's improved, you are onto something, and this is something you should do 3 to 5 times per day, 15 seconds at a time. So give this a try. Let me know in the comments below how it worked for you. And if you got something out of this, don't forget to like the video and subscribe. I post videos like this all the time. And until next time, live healthy.