Effects of Craniocervical Flexion Exercises and Scapular Stabilization Exercises in Neck Pain and Forward Head Posture Among Female Wearing Head Scarves

Command the subject to be in crook lying position. Lock their finger to place their finger below the skull and retract the lower jaw and retract chin as far as possible. Subject has to slightly raise his/he skull a few centimeters. Fingers should be touching the cranium but not supporting it. Subject had to respire and hold the position. Subject has the move out the chin. Stop exercise and restart again. Perform this exercise for 10 times by holding this position for 20 sec at the start of the exercise, increasing it by 10 seconds every session commonly underwent pectoralis minor stretching before every session of exercise of 4 sets with 30 second's hold

The scapular stabilization exercises were made up of four stages: (1) In supine position, the patient was commanded to deep respire for the sake of relaxation by maintain the cervical and shoulder in relaxing position to take a deep breath to relax the body while holding her shoulders and neck in relaxing position. (2) The patient then flex her knees and placed her feet flat on the plinth, and maintain the pose without any cervical movement. Then the patient asked to raise her dominant arm to 90° shoulder flexion with full elbow extension and scapular protraction. This position was sustained for 10 seconds before going to initial position. Three laps of 10 repetitions with one-minute interval in between were performed. (3) In quadruped position, the patient raise her arms alternatively with shoulder abduction and 120 ° flexion. That posture was held for 10 seconds before returning to the starting position. (4) In sitting position