♪ Bob and Brad ♪
♪ The two most famous ♪
♪ Physical therapists ♪
♪ On the internet ♪
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(cane thunks)
- Bob. (chuckles)
- Tsk. Straighten up.
- Yeah, sorry, Bob.
I was kind of slouching there, wasn't I?
- Okay.
- Hi, I'm Bob Shrupp, physical therapist.
- Brad Heineck, physical therapist.
- And together we are the most famous
physical therapists on the internet.
- In our opinion, of course.
- We probably finally have a solution
for a problem we've had for a long time, Brad.
And that's trying to teach people to have good posture
and for them to have a reminder.
- Sure. - So if you had bad posture
it's gonna lead to neck pain and back pain.
And this device, the Upright,
will actually help you with this.
So the old-fashioned way was, actually,
we had to take the cane and slap people with it, but...
and we got in trouble with that, didn't we, Brad?
- Well, yeah, we had to discontinue that technique.
- (chuckles) That practice. All right.
The other thing, Brad, that we used to do quite often,
I still do sometimes,
is we actually put strips of tape along their back.
- Right. - And we,
I've seen like a Mackenzie therapist,
she taped his whole backup
so that whenever you try to lean forward
the tape would pull.
- And it'd be a reminder, "Oh, I gotta get my back up."
And these are people that have pretty bad back problems.
Severe, where that posture
is not gonna irritate it right away,
but as a result of, you know,
sitting like that for 10, 20 minutes,
wow, you get a major flare up, so...
- What was always amazing about that, Brad,
is if the tape stayed in place, which often it didn't,
but if it stayed in place,
quite often the next day they'd come in
and their pain would be decreased.
- Oh, right.
- Just by improving their posture.
- Exactly. - That's how important it is.
It really is critical.
So we have this new device
and they sent us one and we're doing a review on it.
It's called the Upright.
Can you see that, Lonnie?
I'm just trying to give you a kind of a closeup of it.
So it's just this little cool device
and it comes with all these other things
and we're gonna cut away right now.
I'm gonna show what it does
so that you can see that close up.
Okay folks, I'm not a tech guy
so I'll do this at the best I can,
but I'm a little bit limited.
This is what all comes in the kit with the Upright.
First off, you'll want to go to the App store
if you have the iPhone,
or you wanna go to Google Play, if you have an Android.
I have an Android and I have the Galaxy 6, I believe,
and it worked very well with that.
I, again, I don't have a good closeup lens
so I'm not gonna even show you how the app works.
There's other videos on on the internet that shows this
and they're much better at it than...
they're tech guys.
So anyway, the kit comes with the actual device,
the Upright device.
And this is what actually you stick to your lower back
or as to we suggest
we think you should stick it to your upper back
or even lower your neck, lower part of your neck.
It comes with a charger and the charger's attached.
This actually comes off,
but it's a, I believe it's a USB port.
So you can plug this into your computer
and that'll charge it or you can charge it,
just stick it into, I don't know what this part is called
but this is the part that helps charge your phone.
So you can stick it into that.
You can plug it into the wall, so.
Comes with plenty of adhesive stickers.
They got Velcro on one side, sticker on the other side
so they can stick to the skin.
And then they have alcohol pads
that you can wipe the skin with first
before you apply the sticker.
The device, you go ahead and charge it up.
I think there's a little bit of a magnet here
that helps hold it in place.
And you get it charged up and then you'll turn it on.
You gotta hold it for a couple seconds for it to turn on
and you'll see that the light is flashing here.
I hope you can see that.
And then you go to your app and...
Oh my goodness, I hope I can do all this.
It's gonna want you to calibrate it.
So I'm gonna hold it up upright
like you would if it was on your back or your neck.
And I'm gonna start calibration.
Okay, "It says sit upright, stay still
and press I'm upright."
So I'm pressing, "I'm upright"
and now it has to sit in this direction for 15 seconds.
So we're down to 10.
Now you see it actually buzzed already.
So now it tells you to sit slouched.
So I'm gonna go ahead and slouch it a little bit
and hold this position and wait for the buzz.
And now it buzzed.
So now if I'm upright it doesn't buzz
but as soon as I bend forward it buzzes.
So it's a cool app though the app has a lot of...
I gotta actually keep it upright or it'll just keep buzzing.
But the app has, you know,
it has a dashboard, it has a library, it has settings.
I mean, you can take the sensitivity of it
and adjust it so that it's a lot more sensitive
or it's a lot less sensitive
and that's really a nice feature and really well needed.
And then it, you know, it gives you some reports
on how you're doing from day to day,
and that's cool 'cause it help with your motivation.
So again, I apologize,
I don't have a good closeup camera lens
and I'm not a tech guy but hopefully
you got the gist of it.
Thanks a lot.
All right, being the radicals that Brad and I are,
they recommend that you actually take the device
and you're gonna put it on the low back right here,
right above the belt line.
They have a whole video on the phone that you can watch
that'll show you how to do this.
But I have found that it worked out much better up in here,
and this is where we have it on Brad right now.
Yeah, I don't know if we can see it. Yep.
And you can even see the light flashing,
can't you, Lonnie?
(Lonnie speaking faintly)
- Yep. The green light is flashing.
So every time, once it's calibrated,
when Brad leans forward it's gonna buzz.
It's probably outta calibration right now, right?
- Mm-hmm. - It's out of our,
we had a training period of five minutes
and it's stopped right now.
So what's nice about this though
is if it's not in the low back,
you can actually lean against a chair now,
which you can't of course with the device.
But the other thing is
it's gonna be more sensitive to picking up
what we think is a more problematic area than anything,
is that is people hanging their neck down.
Yep. And a lot of times you'll see people
even looking at their cell phones
and they're looking down.
Right, Brad?
- Sure. Oh right, yeah. - Like this.
And that's gonna start buzzing with that instead.
And also you can often, sometimes,
have your back almost straight, but the upper back is not.
So it, to me this solved a lot of problems.
One, you can lean against a chair.
Two, it's easier to put on
when it's up in this direction here.
This is a lot easier to put on.
And three, it catches both the neck and the back.
- Right, yeah 'cause the low back's
connected to the upper back.
I mean you cannot, hardly,
typically when you go forward
the low back goes forward with it.
So this is also, you know,
sensitive to the low back as well to a degree.
- Right, so I'm gonna take it off here once again
so you can see the device.
We actually got some tape on there
and see, I think also if you were to actually
want a suggestion, the company,
is that you can make a little clip
that could clip on the back here
and the clip would just have to have some Velcro on it
and then you could put this right on there
without having to use the tape.
- Sure. - I mean,
they could sell a little clip with it.
- Right, so it'd be to...
you'd have to have...
actually it wouldn't matter
as long as you had clothing on you.
- Right. - Go to your collar
or like if you had a T-shirt. - Exactly.
The collar, you might have to probably
keep tight up against you.
You know what I mean?
Like this, you might have to have it buttoned.
But a regular shirt would work too.
And I just think, you know, this is a great device.
It, the cost,
you know, if you go to their website,
again uprightpose.com, it was 129.95.
But I saw it on Amazon for a 100.
I don't know if the company wants me to tell them that.
(both chuckle)
So, and at that price, I think if you, you know, (stammers)
it's really money well spent,
especially if you're having back pain or neck pain
because it is shocking to us always
how well this works just by correcting posture.
And the problem is if nobody is there watching you,
it's very easy to fall back into that habit.
'Cause one thing that happens, Brad,
put your head forward here.
- All right. - Like this.
This begins to feel normal
to a person who does it all the time.
And a lot of people,
if you have a picture taken of somebody,
they're shocked when they see
that their head is that far forward.
I was just putting this on my wife the other other night
and she goes, "No, no I have good posture"
and we put it on and she was a little shocked
how many times it went off.
- Sure. - 'Cause you forget
and then this feels normal to you.
And what you wanna get to the point
is where normal is up here.
There's just your...
the way the things work with your body position sense,
it throws you off sometimes
and this becomes normal where actually this is.
- Your body acclimates to that.
So I'll demonstrate this.
I have it here, when I get to here I feel a buzz.
And when you feel that buzz, that vibration,
you just get back to where you need to be.
So it's a constant reminder.
And like you said, your wife was having,
it's like wow I'm really changing my...
- I think the other way to improve this device, Brad,
would be make it a shock collar.
So like every time you lean forward it gives you a shock,
then you'd stop with bad posture.
- Now you're talking my language.
We better pass that through OSHA first.
- The other thing is, if you were a bald person
I'd put it right on your head and that way...
you know what I mean? (laughs)
- I gotta think about...
No, 'cause you could keep your head vertical
and have head forward posture...
- Oh, maybe that wouldn't work.
All right. You can scratch that idea.
- Stick it down just below the neck.
- So anyway. - Anyways.
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Right, Brad?
- Absolutely. And they work.
- What about?
- [Crewperson] Another round?
- Well, yes, and that's the other thing is
we're really getting into some more strengthening
and get strong like bull,
which is part of being fit.
- There's the bull, and there's the bull. (chuckles)
- Why, Bob? (Bob chuckles)