Cervical spine exercises

[hla025]

can someone help me with anterior and posterior low load and functional load exercises for the cervical spine? I know how to carry out the exercises but I am stuck on the rationale for why this should be done?? is it just to improve stability of the cervical spine after injury??

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[BridgetOH]

Recent evidence supports that notion that the role of cervical stabilization exercises (specifically deep neck flexor exercises) is primarily to provide postural stability for the C-spine. I measure DNFer endurance with a biofeedback cuff, and once my patient has developed the proper form and demonstrated endurance (up to 10 mmHg change x 5-10 seconds x 5-10 reps), I may advance on to the cranio-cervical flexion test (although my experience has been that this is very difficult for patients to perform correctly, even if there is no history of cervical dysfunction!)