{"id":75877,"date":"2025-02-08T13:38:27","date_gmt":"2025-02-08T13:38:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/alternative-medicine\/is-there-a-neck-joint-allyna-steinberg\/"},"modified":"2025-02-08T13:38:27","modified_gmt":"2025-02-08T13:38:27","slug":"is-there-a-neck-joint-allyna-steinberg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=75877","title":{"rendered":"Is There a Neck Joint? \u2014 Allyna Steinberg"},"content":{"rendered":"


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The person in the foreground seems to know that the neck joint is where the skull meets the spine.\u00a0 This joint is called the atlanto-occiputal (AO) joint referring to where the atlas (the top-most vertebra of the spine) meets the occiput (the bone that makes up the lower and back part of the skull).\u00a0<\/p>\n

Using the spine (and not the AO joint) to look down, as the men in the background are doing, is an act of forgetting about the neck joint.<\/p>\n

It may surprise you that the AO joint is behind your eyes and between your ears. You can see that the person in the foreground is pivoting from there to see her phone.\u00a0<\/p>\n

When we have chronic tension (which can be the cause of pain), the skull gets pulled onto the spine making us less ready to move at the AO joint.\u00a0 Often we do not notice because we get so use to our habits that they feel right — even when these habits look very clear to an observer like the habits of the people in the background of this photo may now be very clear to you.<\/p>\n

To start to free up your neck joint, invite ease in the AO joint (high up behind your eyes and between your ears). Then try these two tips:<\/p>\n

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    Explore motions of the AO joint. The AO joint operates in two ways: one is a pivot (looking side to side) and the other a glide (looking up and down).<\/p>\n