Buffalo Hump Removal Exercises

A neck hump or buffalo hump may be caused by poor posture, hormonal imbalances and certain medical conditions; fortunately it is reversible through targeted exercises.

Here are five easy Buffalo Hump Removal exercises that will help improve your neck and back posture, strengthening and stretching other parts of the body that need strengthening or flexibility work.

Double Chin Exercise

Diet and weight management remain key ways to diminishing double chins; however, regular facial and neck exercises may also help tone and contour the jaw area. These simple yet straightforward exercises can diminish fat accumulation while improving posture and shaping the jawline for a more defined jawline.

Begin by standing or sitting upright, with your back straight. Gradually rotate your head from right to left to stretch your neck muscles. Do this daily.

An effective neck exercise is to tilt back your head and gaze upward. While this exercise might initially prove challenging to complete, regular practice is necessary in order to strengthen chin muscles and decrease any appearance of double chins.

Extending and switching your tongue side-to-side is another excellent exercise to tone the chin and jawline, providing visible results more quickly. Do this exercise before a mirror for maximum impact!

Upper Back Stretch

Known as a buffalo hump, neck humps result from fat accumulation at the base of your neck due to hereditary factors or medical conditions (or even using steroids), or even through using steroids themselves. Although untreatable in most cases, they are treatable with exercise alone.

Ethan Cleary of Orthopedic & Sports Physical Therapy suggests doing shoulder blade squeezes as part of an exercise regimen to improve posture and reduce the appearance of a hump. To perform this exercise, sit up straight and draw together both shoulder blades as though pinching a pencil between them before holding for several seconds and repeating several times.

Exercise for upper back and neck health. Yoga or stretching exercises may also help, which will improve rotation of spine – another contributing factor of neck hump formation.

Shoulder Stretch

A buffalo hump is a bulge of extra fat under your neck that makes you appear older than you really are. It may be caused by weight gain, hereditary factors or medication and in rare instances may even cause discomfort such as numbness and pain.

To reduce a bump, exercises which strengthen posture and muscles may help. A non-invasive treatment called Precision Sculpt may also remove any extra fat without surgery.

Begin your warm up session by warming up your muscles with dynamic stretching – moving the muscle through its full range of motion without holding it still – to increase flexibility and decrease stiffness. This is proven effective.

Assemble near a doorway or wall and place your right hand on the edge of the door frame slightly below shoulder level with palm facing forward, palm down. Slowly turn left keeping arms down and back until a stretch in your chest and shoulder appears; hold this stretch for 30-60 seconds.

Neck Stretch

Fatty deposits behind the neck may reduce movement in both the upper back and thoracic spine, as well as irritating nerves in that area causing pain or even numbness.

To ease tightness and tension that commonly appears here, try this simple exercise:

Simply stand up with arms at your sides, slowly turn your head right until a stretch in your neck can be felt, hold for 20 seconds and return back to starting position. This exercise can help relieve neck and shoulder pain caused by poor posture or digital device usage, helping relieve neck strain.

This exercise targets the levator scapulae muscles (the group that helps you move your shoulder blades). It is easy to perform and may help relieve neck and back pain as well as improving neck and shoulder alignment – perfect for anyone suffering from buffalo hump!