♪ Bob and Brad ♪
♪ The two most famous ♪
♪ Physical therapists ♪
♪ On the internet ♪
- Hi folks I'm Bob Schrupp, physical therapist.
- Brad Heineck, physical therapist.
- I don't even like sitting there for a little while.
By the way, we're both the most famous physical therapists
on the internet.
- In our opinion of course, Bob.
- Today, Brad, we're going to talk about seven alarming ways
bad posture is ruining your health and success.
Plus a simple fix is gonna be shown.
- Right, Bob, I really wanted to do a,
we both have a passion for posture,
- Uh huh, yeah.
- And literally there are seven things that can
Drastically affect your life, your appearance,
your body, your health, your orthopedic issues,
All those things.
We're going to get to it.
- It's a little bit shocking, actually.
- It is!
How much you can. I mean,
it can really
you'd start having pain to the point where you
can't even function.
- Right
It could cause a surgery
It could lead to that.
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Okay Posture
Let's go to the first reason why posture gives you so
much problems
It has to do with your neck.
When you have poor posture, your head goes forward.
Puts a great deal of stress,
particularly on the low neck
or the upper cervical vertebra
causing headaches because a disc can actually rapture
causes a pinched nerve.
So we really need to take care of our necks
with our posture.
Number 2 ,
- For every inch you go forward.
It's another 10 pounds of stress on your neck.
- Right, that's not number two
- Number two is the shoulder.
It affects you.
People don't realize that actually poor posture affects your
shoulder.
Look at me here.
I'm going to have poor posture and
I'm going to try to
raise my shoulder up.
Look how far I go, that's it.
I can't go any higher
- Right
- Now, I'm gonna stand with really good posture.
Whoa.
Well, it goes all the way up.
And if it's down like this, that means it's pinching.
It's giving impingement it's causing pain.
So if you're at the computer and going like this,
you're actually causing pain and problems
and impingement
- They say 70% of shoulder pain is an impingement problem.
So we need the work on that posture,
- It's not a minor thing.
Number three,
how you can breathe as incredibly affected by your posture.
- Yes.
If you're, you know,
Let's go here and give a profile for I'm leaned forward and
slouch forward,
it takes your visceral organs
your abdominal content pushes that into your diaphragm,
which limits your volume of breathing.
Also your rib cage is not able to expand as it would like to
as when you're up to here and then you can breathe and
really take it a lot more value is going to give you more
energy, going to change.
Make big difference in your life.
It's actually the problem is with
spread everything starts tightening up
they have trouble with breathing.
Sure.
- I thought id throw it in there
- I'm glad you did
Next one back.
You can start.
If your back you're holding into a flex position,
the majority of the day, like you sit
or you lift,
or you carry things
with a bent posture like this,
you start to develop a disc problem
That puts pressure on
the disc and it actually push out the back and it can push
on a nerve.
It can give you a sciatica
It's probably the number one cause of sciatica.
Is posture.
Yeah.
Poor seated posture or biomechanics,
- Yes
- Right?
The next one.
- And this, this is huge.
I think Bob, it has nothing to do with,
with pain and you know, the,
the anatomy as far as not the anatomy,
but as far as being sick.
But it has to do with your appearance,
you look so much better when you're up tall posture.
You know,
if you go to a job interview and you walk in slouched,
you're not going to get the job unless everyone else looks
like that.
Well then they're going to look for someone else.
but appearance is a credible amount of
what people think of you,
what you think yourself.
Wow. I think it also makes you look away older.
I mean, if I see someone and they're slouched or you know,
like an older man or a woman,
they look that much older,
but they come along and they got good posture.
Oh, they must be younger than all right.
- Right
So head up, shoulders back.
You're going to get the job.
They're going to look younger.
All good stuff.
The next thing is, people don't understand this,
but believe it or not, if your head is forward,
it actually affects your jaw.
The way you can chew.
Just try this once.
Put your head part and you try to swallow.
- Yeah. It's hard to do
- So you got to actually,
one of the things that when I went to TMJ courses,
the temper band era joint, that's the jaw joint,
TMJ.
You actually teach the person you work on posture is the
first thing you do to try to help take away jaw pain because
poor posture will lead to poor arthro-
arthrokinematics? Yeah.
Yeah.
The mechanics of the joint.
Yeah changes.
If you think about it, if you ever try and swallow,
you got something to swallow.
You always go.
You'd straighten up a little bit.
Things go down easier.
As opposed to going through a zig-zaggy esophagus,
- Right
- We should be speech therapists.
Your daughter.
She could probably show us she's a speech pathologist.
- She could fill us in on that
- That's right.
Next one. Should we talk about a hunchback
break down here and
- You get that big bump at the bottom of your
neck too, or in the middle of your back.
And both of them are very unattractive.
I'm sorry to say
- and painful. They can relate to a lot of painful changes
- And that's from posture
- Yeah.
- I mean, people think that it just grew on its own,
but no that's because of poor posture
- I mean there could be some genetics
but one way or another,
there's the seven things that are really affecting
or could affect your life just by poor posture.
So we're going to show you some ways to correct it now.
- Wow.
Should we go to the first one,
- Yeah lets go to the first one
- Alright seated posture
- Alright.
Which is a big part of problem, especially at the computer,
the workstation or in the car.
- One of the keys to this is that you do it
throughout the day.
You just don't do it once its gone
- Okay. I did it now.
I'm going to, I'm going to have good posture.
No, you got to fight it constantly.
- So up and back, and this is,
I like this one for Bobby.
It reminds me, of when you say, hallelujah ,
I have to say that in my head,
Yeah. Well at home, maybe by myself,
you bring your arms up.
It's kind of like the W stretch is right.
W for Wisconsin,
Not for Minnesota, this would be,
it's a personal inside joke
Anyways.
- You can actually bring it all the way overhead too.
Cause you are going to be doing the W's too. Right?
- Oh yes
- Yeah.
- Hallelujah W's and if you have a chair,
you can lean back on that.
Doesn't go too high,
just go right back over the end of it.
Yep.
And breathe in and exhale.
And you'll notice when you do this,
you can clearly get more oxygen, more air into those lungs
This little trick here developed
actually by Mike, one of our crew members,
he's a physical therapist assistant.
He came up with his idea and we've been using it for years
with our patients, as well as each other.
You take the ball
get it behind your back.
And the ball.
It has to be a softball,
not like a basketball as a kickball here.
We took it from her neighbors.
Just kidding.
They gave it to us.
We stretch back
- After we took the candy.
- Yeah.
- The thing that is nice about the ball is you can put it
in different spots of the back
I honestly, if you work at a desk,
you should have one of these balls,
just go to the big box store in a ball.
And you are going to find out that this alone not only
reminds you to do it, but it can hit all spots in your back.
It just works really well.
- I can tell right now I'm a little lower
and that feels like
that's what needs it a little bit more.
- Yeah.
Look how he's stretching that chest muscles you know,
so he can open the breathing up
and can solve that problem of not being able to breathe
well.
- Ah, yeah.
- All right, good.
What's the next one?
- Wall angels.
Well, do you want to chin tucks since you're down here?
Brad.
- Yeah.
So this one's only,
you can do this one while you're driving when you're
sitting. Right.
But to do the chin type, you need to be here first.
- Yeah Good posture, you don't want to be down here
to do a chin tuck
- I was doing these once at a red light in my car
to pick up my posture let me do some chin tucks
and a person in other car
looks at me like what the heck ,
I'm thinking of chin tucks. What do you think?
You know, anyways, it was kind of funny.
I was laughing inside
Next one.
- The final one is wall angels
- I think, I think you came up with this one, Bob
- Oh no, this has been around years.
- It has? Oh, I can't remember.
So use the wall, lean up against the wall,
put your butt up against the wall, your shoulders,
bring your shoulders back and then the W again,
up against the wall.
Now, if you're really tight,
you will not build to get your arms up against the wall.
Yeah. But don't worry.
You can do them away from the wall.
- That's where he's doing the wall angel.
It's making the wings and you can see again,
any progress by you.
- Tell how close you are and how high you
- Even with your head
- You want to see if you can use your head back.
But some people can't touch their head,
but a lot of people can.
- I mean, if you go like this that's cheating.
We want to go back like this. Yeah.
- I'm thinking this is going to be a little project, right?
When I'm painting next at our house,
when the wall is all wet,
I'm going to go up against the wall and I'm going to go like
this and then take a picture of it and use that for show and
tell
- why don't you do it when they pull your cement driveway
or whatever.
- I know. They're good.
- Excellent. That's a Haikou.
- All right, next one.
- That's it.
That's all of them.
- Yeah Brad and I can fix this about anything.
Posture correction can be fun except for a broken heart,
a broken heart. And you know,
- That's right.
- Brad's going to finally start putting some time and do it.
He's been slacking off.
- Yeah I'm going to put another chapter in it tonight.
- Yeah All right.
Thanks.