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How to prove the second Korn inequality?

Suppose $ \Omega $ is a bounded domain in $ \mathbb{R}^d $ with Lipschitz boundary. If $ u\in H^{1}(\Omega,\mathbb{R}^d) $ is a function with the property that $ u\perp R $ in $ H^{1}(\Omega;\mathbb{R}^d) $, then
\begin{eqnarray} \int_{\Omega}|\triangledown u|^2dx\leq C\int_{\Omega}|\triangledown u+(\triangledown u)^T|^2dx \end{eqnarray} where $ R=\left\{\phi=Bx+b:B\in\mathbb{R}^{d\times d} \text{ is skew-symmetric and }b\in\mathbb{R}^d\right\} $ and $ C $ is a constant.

I recently see this statement in a book about elliptic equations. It is called the second Korn inequality. I tried to get the estimate by direct computation which works in the proof of the first Korn inequality, but for this inequality, I cannot combine the condition $ u\perp R $ with the final results. Can you give me some hints or references?