Bailey Chiropractic Centre

Exercise to Increase Truck Rotation Flexibility
If your spine is stiff when you try to rotate or twist, you will benefit from these exercises.

If you flex the hips and knees and bring your thighs toward your chest when you do the rotation flexibility exercises, you will stretch the mid-back area.  If you have your knees and hips bent with your feel on the floor, the stretch is more effective for the lower back area.  If you raise one leg straight overhead or cross one over the other as you do the rotation exercise, you are doing a more advanced stretch.  Note that the head is rotated to the opposite direction with all of these exercises.  You should hold each stretch ten to fifteen seconds.

Neutral lying position:

Trunk rotation stretch to the right:

Full trunk rotation stretch: