Neck Pain and Cervical Instability

Prehab is any rehabilitation or medical coaching prior to a medical procedure or surgery to best position you for a best outcome. Good prehab as it relates to regenerative medicine should consider all aspects of your daily life and help condition you to perform those tasks post-procedure with the least amount of stress through the site of injection.

With over 25+ years of experience treating neck pain in an out-patient physical therapy setting, we are they pioneers in neutral spine-based fitness and physical therapy prehab. We have 8+ year teaching neutral spine-based fitness digitally, 5+ years of experience preparing patients to go into this procedure with healthier posture.

We have 9 levels of check-and-balance with every exercise prescribed. You are not advanced to the next level of conditioning until you have demonstrated the ability perform the current level properly without cueing.

The HPC prehab program is a digital physical therapy product, all session are completed through telehealth from the comfort of your home, at your pace and on your schedule.

Our goal is to have you maintain neutral spine alignment (aka healthy posture) during your daily activities. The exercises are built around the daily tasks you will have to complete post-procedure. We just help you do them without forward head posture.

Visual representation of the consequences of faulty posture on the neck

The HPC Prehab Program for Neck Pain will;

• condition you to get into neutral spine alignment (healthy posture).
• teach you an individualized daily “Start Your Day” routine to maximize your chance of starting each day with your cervical spine in neutral position.
• condition you to sit, stand and walk from neutral spine alignment to reduce the amount of muscle tension you have in the neck, low back and hips.
• condition you to go up and down stairs with healthy loading through the spine and symmetrical loading through the ankle, knees and hips.
• condition you to pick object off the floor with a hip hinge strategy to reduce stress on the spine, hips and knees.
• condition you to lift object overhead with a bicep/shoulder strategy with the neutral plane of the scapulae to reduce stress through the elbow, shoulder and neck.

How Much Does the Self-care for Neck Pain Program Cost?

You journey to healthy loading through your cervical spine starts with the purchase of a $50 Posture Screen. If your HPC physical therapist identifies that your neck pain is associated with faulty loading patterns in the cervical spine you will likely be asked to complete the Healthy Neck Program. You will then be asked to purchase a $600 Functional Mobility 8-pack to work with an HPC physical therapist to safely restore your ability to perform your daily activities from healthy posture.

Total Cost: $650 to position you to get the most out of your regenerative medicine procedure and set you up for long term injury management and prevention.