- Okay with a high hip,
in this case Sam has a left high hip,
you can see here the gap between the hip
and the pelvis and the ribcage is less than here.
Often times that can be the result of
injury on the left side.
- Former injury.
- Former injury, whether it be an ankle sprain,
a fractured leg.
- Bad knee.
Something where when you walk
you compensate for the pain,
and your body does that-
- Automatically.
- Yep.
And things tighten over this over time.
So what we need to do eventually
is get this stretched out and even.
- Pelvic floor to the hip.
- Yep, get this back down where it belongs.
- Right.
- So that's what we're gonna show you.
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- Okay, so the high hip being the left side,
we're going to,
hopefully this works as far as your height.
We're gonna use the door frame, the trim.
I'm gonna grab it on this side,
but it would be here.
Make sure you got solid trim.
If it's not safe, don't do it.
And then we're just going to,
you're not gonna put all your body weight through it,
just stretch, allow it,
and feel, you can see the tightness of my clothing stretch,
well my tissues and my muscles
are doing the same underneath.
And we're just gonna relax and hold it,
it should feel like a good stretch.
And then take it off.
And go ahead and do it again.
How many times, Bob?
- [Bob] Maybe three.
- Maybe three times.
The first time to do it-
- [Bob] Throughout the day.
- Throughout the day, yep.
So every time you walk through the doorway,
you might wanna stop
and give it a stretch.
- [Bob] Got it.
Perfect Brad.
- All right, very good.
All right, the second alterative is
you can take a stick, a broom stick
or a booyah stick,
you're gonna put it off to your side on the floor,
bring this hand up so you're looking at
the back of your hand, you're facing it away.
Grab the stick and we're going to lean,
and you're gonna feel a stretch on the tight side.
We were talking left before,
so I'd be doing it over here.
I think you can see it better here,
it's the same mechanics either side.
And stretch.
- So you can use a PVC pipe.
- Yep, PVC pipe.
The big thing is it has to stick to the floor.
If you've got a smooth floor
and it's slipping, simply put a shoe down,
and put the end of the stick inside the heel of the shoe,
that works good for a nice gripper.
- If you got the booyah stick,
you can say booyah.
- Oh yeah, booyah.
Oh, I wanted to do the double bearing.
Anyways, let's go onto the next one
before I embarrass myself more.
Now another alterative if you don't have a stick,
you can still do this.
It's not as intense of a stretch,
but if this is the tight side,
you're reaching up,
like you're reaching for that apple
you can hardly reach,
and then-
- [Bob] Shift over.
- Yep, shift the weight over,
feel that stretch.
And remember you need to relax with this.
♪ Bend and stretch ♪
- There you go, sing away, Bob.
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- That's enough Bob,
we wanna keep these people for the next one.
All right, now this next one,
the first time I saw it I thought
it's a little unusual.
- Strange.
- But Rick Olderman, therapist,
has been doing this for years with patients
with good-
- He's a good man.
- Yep.
Good success.
You're gonna take this arm up,
and just like we did in the seated position,
reach up like that,
and you're gonna walk around like this.
Now you're probably not gonna walk around like this
downtown shopping in the grocery store,
but in your house,
wherever you can,
and you walk it for a reasonable distance,
and you should feel that relief there.
- What do you want?
- What?
- Raise your hand.
- Yeah. (laughing)
Now the other option is
if your door,
you don't have the right door height
like we mentioned before-
- If you're short.
- Yep.
You can get a hanging handle,
and put it in, attach it to the wall
anywhere you want so it fits your height.
And I'm just gonna do this.
So this is a little short for me,
but it's okay, it doesn't really matter,
'cause I still get a nice stretch,
and I can go up against the wall
which is nice.
It allows me to vary the resistance
in a very controlled manner
as opposed to just dangling there.
- Beautiful Brad.
- It feels good too, Bob.
I'm gonna do the other arm,
otherwise, I'm not crooked,
I don't have a short hip.
You can turn the camera off,
I'm gonna finish up here.
- Okay, see ya.
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