When someone has a cervical fusion(anterior or posterior) what three exercises should be avoided & why?
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Having a fusion in my neck myself makes this is an easy question with room for thinking outside of the box.
I’d have to say if I were going to pick three exercises, though, then I’d choose regular squat with the olympic bar on one’s upper traps, Push ups. And a tie for third with pull ups and traditional crunches.
Any exercise that pulls the neck past the frontal plane and into the sagittal plane is going to be a neurological issue waiting to happen.
