Stretch for Dowagers Hump

This beautiful 79 year old client settles her spine at the end of her workout. She is doing the stretch Romana used to do for her Dowagers Hump.

Back in the early 90’s, I was in Romana’s apartment and she showed me how she stretched back over the edge of her bed and let her neck and shoulders fall into extension. This client pictured has 16 Fusions in her spine and came to Pilates after her surgerys. She is not a candidate for stretching off the edge of the bed or even the Spine Corrector, her upper back kyphosis is due to neck fusions.

The towel rolled under her scapula helps to lift her sternum and open her diaphragm and chest and create length between her rib cage and pelvis, much like The Stretch with the Weighted Pole on the Spine Corrector. So lucky to have learned from Romana and her clientele at Drago’s gym. She had so many broken bodies, but cared for them deeply. Thankful to have learned to give my clientele the same care?