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♪ The two most famous ♪
♪ Physical therapist on the internet ♪
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- Hi, folks, I'm Bob Schrupp, physical therapist.
- Brad Heineck, physical therapist.
We're the famous physical therapists on the internet.
- In our opinion, of course, Bob.
- Triggers create perfect posture without exercises.
- What you talking about?
- We've got a lot of explaining to do there, Brad.
Brad just came back from a vacation.
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Now what's cool about these
is this actually can help with your posture.
- Absolutely.
- It can also help with your shoulder pain,
and also back or pain or sciatica decompression.
- That's right.
- So Brad is gonna show you real quick
just how to hook these up,
but you have a chance to win some of these.
So yeah, we use our wall anchor.
Hook one up, and there's actually two hooked up right now.
- They're good for 275 pounds each.
- That's right.
- So over 500 pound person.
So that, we're safe, and we're covered.
So you grab here.
You can see the posture benefits here.
My back is flat, my head's back against the wall,
and I'm gonna relax and stretch your shoulders out,
get that impingement issue taken care of.
I can feel the traction on my lower back now,
and life is good, Bob.
- There we go even though you're back in Minnesota.
(laughs) All right, Brad.
You take it away, sir.
- All right, posture posture posture.
We have a lot of videos on posture
because it is incredibly important for breathing,
for how you look, shoulder mechanics.
- Should pain, neck pain, back pain.
- The whole works - Yeah.
- And I had a patient, and I was, Bob,
and I know, sometimes we learned
some of the best lessons from our patients.
- Yes.
- We had a patient, she was in,
she was concerned about her posture.
She had a shoulder issue, etc.,
and I started to talk to her and she was actually,
she's retired now, but she was a college professor
teaching dance at college level.
So at that level and you're teaching dance,
they're incredibly aware of their body mechanics,
- Right. - their posture,
and where their body is in space.
- Some of the best posture you're gonna see
are on people who teach dance.
- Right, exactly.
So we talked about what she used to maintain good posture.
She's, I don't know, she was in her 70s.
Yeah, you know.
- She's, yeah, late 60s.
- Right, so she had great posture,
and she says this is one thing I do.
She says I get what I call triggers,
and that's where the title came from,
and what's a trigger?
And she said, for example, in my house
every time she walks through a doorway,
it's a visual trigger or a reminder to check your posture.
In other words, so the shoulders are gonna be back,
the chin is in, and you're in that good alignment
where we need to be, as opposed to this.
- You know, I can even take it a little bit further, Brad.
There's actually a stretch you can do.
I mean, if you wanted to do an exercise.
- Oh, with the doorway.
- With the doorway, yes. - Beautiful.
- So if the doorway is like this,
you put your hands on both sides of the doorway
and lean into it, - Right.
And that'll stretch out those shoulder
or the chest muscles that tend to round out the shoulders.
- Sure. - It's all.
- Yeah, so you can work that in as well.
- But without the exercise, it's just a matter of, yeah.
It's like you said, it's nice and tall,
- Yeah, it reminds you - and it reminds you.
- of good posture. - Right.
So that's walking,
and I wanted to do one like if sitting at a desk,
right at your computer, just a prime place
where your mind goes off of your posture,
and you're looking at the screen focused on your work.
So in my case, I would take my Green Bay Packer cup
and put Gumby in there, and see Gumby,
how Gumby is, plays for those arms up, good posture?
That's going to be a continual visual reminder
while you're working to get the posture up,
and actually you can do the famous alleluia stretch.
- Alleluia stretch out
as a response to seeing that.
- Right, you don't have to do the stretch,
but at least get your posture up.
So it's a continual visual trigger to remind you
get your posture up.
- I think you can get a audio trigger too.
You could set an alarm on your computer, right?
Right, Mike?
Yeah, and I mean I actually.
What I do is I worked on my computer a lot yesterday.
Every half hour, I would get up.
I didn't have a alarm, but I just,
I would look at the clock, and every half hour,
okay I'm gonna get up.
- Sure, yep.
So that good, even though even the time
can be a posture trigger,
and then in the car.
Good place to allow your body to start slumping
thinking about traffic, whatever.
So one thing that you can do is every time
you come to a stop sign or the red/green go lights
is use those as a visual trigger, check your head.
Now with me, I always bring my head.
If my head's not touching the headrest
or where you, it prevents you from getting whiplash
if you get rear-ended.
If my head's not back there touching,
I know my head's too far forward.
Head forward posture is rounded posture
is all the same thing.
So back, shoulders back,
and like to do some chin tucks.
- Yes, that's what I do.
Chin tucks when I'm driving,
it's just such a great time to do it, saw.
- So pick out some visual cues.
You can throw in some exercise like we did,
but at least think about that posture,
and it's gonna happen throughout the day.
- That's the thing.
You really do have to work on it all day long,
I hate to say, because if you do the exercises
like let's say once a day,
and then the rest of the day you're like this.
- You forget about it.
- Yeah, but I what is.
Mike, can you follow me?
I do, this is what I do every 20,
every half hour when I'm at home.
'Cause I have some Hanging Handles at home,
and I do the hanging.
So it's just my back decompresses.
I can, gets a little cavitation a lot of times.
- You see how they're cracking?
- And it just straightens out my posture,
and I feel like refreshed when I go back to it.
- Yep, you breathe better.
It's just a wonderful thing.
So those those triggers.
Get yourself some triggers
that you can work with on a daily basis,
and, Bob, what are you doing?
- Gumby's going to the bathroom in there (laughs).
- Why, Bob, why?
- Why, Gumby, why?
- Just 'cause his team doesn't do so well (laughs).
- Right, thanks for watching.
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