Exercise and Chronic Mechanical Neck Pain

Participant will be in a high sitting position. An elastic resistance band will be wrapped on each hand of the participant leaving the palm open and will be told to abduct and extend of thumb along with fingers, followed by wrist extension and forearm supination, the participant will be instructed to perform scapular retraction with shoulder external rotation, elbow extension, shoulder abduction, and extension and chin tuck. The treatment protocol will be for 4 weeks, having 3 sessions in a week and 4 sets of 12 repetitions in each session. Intervention was started from 10 seconds hold to 30 seconds with 2 seconds increment in every session. Rest time was 30 seconds.

Multimodal exercise program including chin tucks, bilateral pectoral stretching, scapular region strengthening exercises and Wand exercises. The training program applied 3 times a week, 50 minutes each time, for 4 weeks