♪ Bob and Brad ♪
♪ The two most famous physical therapists ♪
♪ On the internet ♪
- Hi folks.
I'm Bob Schrupp, physical therapist,
- Brad Heineck, physical therapist.
- And we're about the most famous physical therapists
on the internet.
- Well, in our opinion, of course, Bob.
- So I'm doing this video for my nephew.
Big boy, big strong guy.
- His name is- - Alec.
- Alec. Pleasure to meet you, Alec.
- Anyway, Alec tore his bicep- - Okay.
- tendon, and he actually tore it from
right down by the elbow,
which is unusual.
Usually they tear it up by the shoulder.
- Sure.
- Big softball player. - Ooh.
- He can really jack the ball-
- Yeah. - You know?
And he wants to get back to it.
- Absolutely.
- So, He tore it, and he had surgery,
and it's now been three to four months,
and the doctor said no restrictions.
- ah, go after it uh.
- So we're going to start some strengthening,
you know,
first off you do want to make sure also that it's completely
straightened
- full range of motion. Compare one to the other.
- Right.
We'll look at them both at once.
If that one's a little bit tight,
just give a little pressure on it and stretch it for
- Yep
- 20, 30 seconds.
- Stretch.
- All right.
With all these exercises,
I want you to warm up without weight.
Just you get the arm moving.
I don't know if it's his left arm or right arm.
- I think he will know. - Yeah.
I would guess so.
(Laughter)
so because you're starting this and the
muscles going to be very weak.
The tendents is going to be weak.
I want you to do 20 reps without weight,
but we're going to do isometric. So what you'll do,
you'll go up to a countertop and you'll take the arm and
put your hand on our knees and you're gonna pull underneath
that for maybe 10 seconds. - Sure.
- Relax, do it for 20 seconds. 20 repetitions.
- You know, he, he's got these loop bands from you.
He could put enough bands on there. So it's, it's a little
it's just really strong.
- Sure.
- And these, if these create any sharp pain in this area,
you're going to have to, that's too much.
- Right.
- It's not ready for it yet. So don't overdo it right away.
- So were gonna go all three sets.
Um, I think we'll start with 10, three sets of 10.
- Sure. Yep.
I think it was a good,
- So. - good start.
- All right. After you've been doing that for awhile,
and it seems really easy. And like,
this is not bothering me at all.
We're actually going to have you take a roll up sheet and
you're going to put it around your foot,
like this, and you're gonna Grab on
Palms up. - Yep
- And you're going to give a little resistance with the leg,
but the leg is going to do the movement.
The arm is not going to do the movement.
- Right.
- I mean the arm is moving. - Right.
- But it's the leg that's actually providing the resistance.
- Right.
So we're just trying to get some resistance with movement,
- Right.
- not a lot,
but enough to make things work and just kind of wake it up
- And we'll do uh, what do they recommend, uh
three sets of 10 again every other day.
- Right.
- All right, That gets to be too easy.
You're going to progress to the loop bands which you should
have by now.
- So you sent him some loop bands.
- Right.
- This is your nephew.
- Yeah.
- Wow. Uncle Bob
- Uncle Bob.
- You're a nice uncle, Excellent. So there will be,
you'll probably start with the yellow one.
- Right.
- Then there's a handle with a clip like this and I've got
it all set up.
And what I'm going to do is I'm going to step here and just
start out, put my elbow against my waist and get it so that,
you know,
you can do the full range of motion without any notable
pain, maybe a little twinge,
but you're not going to irritate it. You know,
you should be able to get, by the time you get to 10,
you should feel like, oh,
I need a rest. - Yep
- And then give it a rest.
- Yep.
- You can do a little massage or maybe
- Pay attention to your body
- Yeah
- What's your body telling you.
- If there's some scar tissue
where that surgery was, you can get in there and you know,
massage a little bit
- Right
- while you're resting - Right, absolutely
- Yep, and then, you know,
to get it tighter.
It's a really nice thing about bands is you just,
I just slip it down a little bit. Now it's more resistance.
And then of course, when that gets too much,
you can go to the next band up.
Like I already have set up with the red ones
- You wanna show how you
can actually supinate to Brad.
- Oh, good, good point. - And, once they add
Cause the muscle actually doesn't just
bend the arm.
- Mmhm
- It actually turns the form too.
- Right.
- So it turns you from hand down to hand up.
Yeah. That's where if you want to impress the girls,
you always go Palm up. - Right.
Cause then you get that bulge.
- Right.
I don't have a muscle there. But anyways, so with,
with uh, what works a lot well with this is,
I'm going to start like this. And then the palm
- He's starting palm down - Is going up,
- And he, he turns it palm up - Yep.
- Palm down, Palm up, down, Palm up.
And that's a really nice way to work that forearm with it.
- So three sets of 10 - Mmhm
- And I would do it every other day,
one a day to recover - Right.
And see how he did too, make sure he didn't get too sore.
- Right, you might do it. It's the next morning.
or next day you say maybe I went a little too hard
- So eventually you can work up to it, again
like I said, he's a strong guy.
- Oh.
- Wow yeah, What position does he play in the ball team?
- I don't know.
- Well, maybe he can comment in and chime in.
- Sure.
- But yeah, if you get to the purple, Alec um
obviously you're a pretty big, strong athletic guy,
but I have a feeling this will challenge you
- Yeah. - Cause I,
you get in there like this.
Well, anyways.
(Laughter)
Yeah. It's, it's definitely a nice challenge.
And uh, so that's uh, more than enough resistance
I'm sure. - All right.
Alec, give me a call if you needed help, otherwise.
Good luck, get that bicep back in good shape.
- Absolutely. And just think if he's a pitcher, you know,
he'd be pitching a hundred miles an hour.
- I don't think he pitches.
He just hits the ball forever.
- He just hits it. - Yeah
- Maybe he's a pitch hitter.
- Jack.
All right.
I thought his name was, his name was Alec?
- No he jacks the ball.
- Oh, Jacks, oh yeah.
Goodbye, that's enough of that.
(Laughter)
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