- Hi, I'm Bob Schrupp, physical therapist.
- Brad Heineck, physical therapist.
- And together we are the most famous physical therapists
on the internet, Brad.
- Oh, in our opinion, of course, Bob.
- Trying to get some enthusiasm going here.
Today, we're gonna talk about,
we've got some rules that we live by, Brad,
and I thought this would be a good time to go over these.
- Sure.
- I mean, just kind of our general philosophy.
We got the three- - As physical therapists.
- As physical therapists,
and even for these videos.
- Right.
- We kind of got three things,
or three general areas we're trying to cover.
So the first one, rule number one is
help others. - Help others. Yeah.
- That's right.
We're all on this earth together, you know.
This is why we're doing these videos.
We're trying to help you.
And we'd like to see that you're gonna
help each other too.
- Right, so if you're watching a video
and you want to give some feedback to someone else
who makes a comment and you have some helpful information,
feel free to put a comment down there.
And we've had people doing that already,
but we're gonna encourage that even more.
- Yeah, we'd like to see more of it.
- Right.
- I mean, please jump in and help, you know,
'cause personal experiences a lot of times are better
than a therapist telling you what to do, so-
- Yeah, exactly.
We just had someone talk about their success
with their back problem and the person
that was already having it, if they read that,
I'm sure it helped them out
a little bit. - Yeah, it really
is fantastic.
So let's go to the second rule.
The second rule is, and Brad and I highly believe in this,
your body wants to heal.
- Right. - It wants to repair itself.
So get outta the way or at least
try to help it in some way.
- Right, and that's a lot of what therapy is
is doing things to promote healing
that the body already wants to do.
- Right, fitness and exercise
and doing the right things or avoiding the wrong things.
And that's what we try to cover.
- Exactly.
- Well, I'll give you an example, by the way.
Brad has a condition called spondylolisthesis,
where one bone kind of slips forward on the other bone.
- Right, so the spine is actually out of alignment,
pretty obvious in the X-rays.
- But what happens, over time, and this is a problem,
right, Brad? - Sure.
- I mean it gives him back pain.
But eventually, it's starting to fuse on its own.
- Right, the disc actually is gone now.
Four and five are on top,
you know, lumbar four and five are on top of each other.
And I'm really hoping that those bones are fused
so they're stable.
- Right. And another example, by the way,
that I saw in a book, it was by Robin McKenzie.
There was a guy that, do you have the hip too?
- Oh yes, Bob. We are full of anatomy.
- Your hip is made out of a ball.
This is kind of a ball
that doesn't have this part on there,
and a socket, a hole that it fits in.
Now, this guy through some type of trauma,
this ball had broke through this hole here and-
- It took the pelvis and
pulverized it basically. - Right, it went,
made a hole right into it.
And what they found out,
this was in the way, in the 1800s,
they took a picture years later of the anatomy
or did a drawing of the anatomy.
A new joint had formed. I mean-
- So there's no surgery involved. The body-
- There's no surgery. The body repaired itself.
It made a new joint.
And this guy was probably walking around on a-
- And this is an extreme example.
- Yeah, this is an extreme example, but the body is crazy.
I mean, so let your body heal yourself.
Third rule, Brad, let's be medically smart.
- All right. - And what does that mean?
You've gotta educate yourself nowadays.
You've gotta become your own advocate.
- Right. - Because
it's a very complicated system, the medical system.
And we're gonna try to help you navigate it.
- And I think we need to make this clear,
because we've got 50% of our viewers
are not in the United States.
- Right.
- So it may be different from country to country.
In the United States, which we're very familiar with,
you really need to know
whether you're gonna see an orthopedic doctor,
the neurologist, or the general doctor, MRIs-
- How do you find a good doctor?
- Right.
- You know, what questions do you ask?
- And we're gonna have a video on how we're-
- Yeah, we're gonna cover all this stuff.
- Right. - And you know,
the other thing, as a part of that umbrella term,
we're really pushing always for you to use less medications
as possible. - Right.
- I mean, there's obviously times
you have to use 'em. - Right.
- Less injections, less surgeries.
You know, you know, we're always pushing for
the non-surgical option before we-
- Right, a more natural way.
- Right. - Because, you know,
surgery is not always the answer.
And a lot of times, it causes more problems
on the road. - It can, exactly.
And that's why we're trying to help you out.
So those are kind of our basic three rules.
We'd love to hear your comments below
and we will be hitting those themes
throughout our videos as we move forward.
- And sooner or later, Bob, we're gonna have
the fourth one on there.
We're gonna get that broken heart thing figured out.
- Oh, that's right.
- And that's when we're really
gonna get popular. - Yeah, once we know how
to fix that broken heart, we're gonna be cool.
All right.