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Failure to warm-up can cause early onset of Carpal Tunnel or tendonitis.
== Cardio ==
It helps to do several minutes of cardiovascular activity before playing. Running in place or jumping jacks or simply pacing around the room quickly will get the heart working and force blood flow to all the muscles in the body.
== Stretching ==
Finally, stretch your neck. Try to hold your shoulders back and push your head back, like you are trying to retract your chin into your neck. Now turn your neck as far left and right as possible, back and forth. As you turn back and forth, slowly start tilting your head backwards, so you are looking upwards. Next, try to push your shoulders lower, while tilting your neck left and right. Don't tilt the neck too hard - try to lower the shoulders more until you can your lats get a good stretch.
== Injury ==
see [[Injury]]
== Petrucci Chords ==