Hi! My friend sent this to me. It’s obvious not to tug with cervical instability but is there actual research that says don’t tug up and down it’s bad for the neck? I have not found any.
“Do you know of any evidence or have any idea if tugging with a dog in an up-and-down fashion is bad for the neck? I have heard that but don’t know if it’s true or not. Basically that you should only tug side to side with them or let them pull back”
Nothing that I know of in the literature… I just did a quick pubmed and google scholar search and confirmed 'nothing'!
I guess there would simply be pragmatic guidelines to follow. As you say, not with cervical instability.
I don’t even want to comment about direction - Is pulling into extension bad? Nothing tells us this.
So, honestly who knows. If there are recommendations against it, then they are pure conjecture at this point.
