♪ Bob and Brad ♪
♪ The two most famous physical therapists ♪
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- Well, hi there, folks!
I'm Bob Schrupp, physical therapist.
- Brad Heineck, physical therapist.
- We are the most famous physical therapists on the internet
- In our opinion, of course, Bob.
- Here we are in our secret bunker once again.
Today we are gonna talk about scoliosis,
how to self-mobilize at home to improve your posture.
This is by the work of Steve August, isn't it Brad?
- Right.
- From Austria, New Zealand?
Australia?
- I think it's New Zealand. - New Zealand.
Yeah, it was New Zealand.
Sorry Steve.
- He's gonna get mad at us.
- No, he's gonna get mad at us.
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- There you go Bob.
Nice work.
Are you ready?
- Yeah, I'm ready.
- Okay, so.
scoliosis, a number of many people over the years
ask us to do exercises.
What can they do with scoliosis?
And this is probably one of the best things
we can come up with.
scoliosis to treat it through physical therapy
is really a specialty.
- Very specialized.
- All right. - Yeah.
- But we got something here
that we found that you can do at home.
- Especially, probably for a milder case.
- Exactly.
- This isn't gonna help the person who has severe scoliosis.
- Right, and what we need to do,
you do have to purchase something for this.
- Sure.
- It is a back-pod.
And we've endorsed this before.
I like to use it for my Costal-Chondritis,
Bob uses it for his posture.
- I use it, I am a big fan.
But I am just gonna warn people Brad,
it is expensive.
And I know people complain that it is pricey
but we know, Brad and I, have created products ourselves
and when you have to have molds made
and you have the products and you are not a big company,
it ends up being a lot more than you wanna be,
and you gotta pay Amazon money.
- Yeah, but if it works, it's worth it.
- It works.
- It's like 80 bucks, you know?
In the medical field,
I don't think that's really expensive.
Here it is the book.
Now Steve talks about if you have,
we mentioned if it's a serious case of scoliosis,
it's probably not gonna work.
- Can I mention this brand though?
- Oh, yeah mild case.
Yeah here is the book that.
And Steve August also recommends get this book
and use it for reference.
- Yeah so the book is basically called Schroth Therapy.
It's based upon the work of Katherina Schroth,
she's since passed,
but she really knew her stuff.
And ideally what you are going to do,
this is going to be way beyond your capabilities
to read this.
It really is.
- Mine too?
- Well, it was beyond mine.
But I mean, I understood it.
But if you don't work with it,
you don't really know what you are doing.
So you are going to want to seek out a Schroth Therapist.
Someone who has been trained in the Schroth Method.
- And you know the thing that we got here is to
show the technique that Steve mentions with the back-pod.
Bob actually has,
and this is how you determine if you have.
- The scoliosis - Scoliosis,
a visual test.
So Bob why don't you stand up?
Can you get him in the screen there?
Okay, so Bob is going to stand
and he's going to put his hands together like this.
And he is just going to bend forward
and I'm gonna point out,
you may have to go up a little bit, Bob.
- Which up?
What do you mean?
- Keep your head down.
Just, can you see the difference?
So here we got the rib cage,
here is lower than the rib cage here.
In other words, the yellow stripe I put on,
you can see it's higher.
It's a little bit higher.
So this is the side we want to treat.
Now, this is pretty mild.
Bob, we don't think Bob has scoliosis.
He's got another issue we don't have to get into.
Bob, you and I are gonna talk about your thing and all.
- My serratus anterior.
- We don't care about that
we're not gonna talk at all.
So, now, what we are gonna do,
why don't you turn around Bob?
- Which way, this way?
- Yeah.
So, this is the way Steve recommends to use this.
You are going to put it, not on the spine
but over to the two inches
from the spine
on the high side.
So it is going to be where the yellow stripe is.
So Bob do you want to demonstrate that?
- Sure.
- I'll put that down for you.
I'm trying to maintain--
- Which way do you want me to lay?
This way?
Or should I lay?
- I was thinking head towards them.
- Or lie.
- Yeah we've gotta make sure we get our grammar properly,
we're gonna get--
- So I am going to go ahead and find the spot.
And what's nice about this thing
is it stays right in place.
I mean, you can try like a tennis ball
and put a towel over the top of it
and that feels similar to this.
But it rolls around then, you know what I mean?
It is hard to keep in place.
For a lot of you,
this is going to be too harsh to start off with
and that's why Brad is putting a towel there.
Because if you haven't done this before
it's probably going to be
a little bit too aggressive.
- [Brad] Especially if you don't have a lot of muscle there.
- Right, and you also may need a pillow.
I don't need one Brad.
- [Brad] No, I wasn't going to get you one either way.
(laughter)
- But for someone else,
they may need a pillow.
They may even need to put a pillow over that spot.
Now with this,
you're going to want to bring your arms out like this.
Correct, Brad? - [Brad] Yep.
- And you are going to want to take some nice,
relaxed, deep breaths.
'Cause you want the ribcage moving
while you're mobilizing it.
So, breathe in through the nose
and out through the mouth
and again, you're letting your arms
try, and elbows relax down to the floor.
Again, you know, I can't actually go down like this even.
- Here, we can put this under there.
- Here we go,
well now you can't see the--
- Yeah, I don't know if they can see it anyways Bob
from the camera angle.
- SO, does he usually just hit one spot?
Or does he move up and down and that's all?
- Yeah, but it's just on the high side,
but you can go up and down vertically.
- Yeah you can tell when you are not on the
high spot anymore.
- [Brad] Right.
- You know.
- [Brad] And one thing he said is critical
which is true with all physical therapy.
You need to do this consistently on a daily basis.
For quite a while
before you are gonna see some results.
And again, it's not a guarantee
but it's one way that he recommends and--
- Yeah, I would attest to that too,
because it took me a while before,
and you've done it now too, for your costal chondritis,
but what I do is I actually go up the steps
and I put my foot on the railing
and stretch my hamstring
while I am doing this mobilization.
- [Brad] Yeah, two for the price of one.
- Yeah it works out really great.
It's really relaxing.
- It's a good idea.
So, just so they can see how you have that set there.
- This thing is solid, by the way.
I mean one of these days
we're going to run the car over it.
- [Brad] Well I think we should get a dump truck,
maybe we can get one from the town.
- Yeah there we go!
- [Brad] Give it the ultimate.
Did we mention that the other underlying factors
that people should be aware of?
You are gonna have to see a doctor or therapist
to assess this.
If you have a leg length difference.
Oh, if you have a leg length difference,
muscle imbalance,
SI, sacroiliac problem,
those are things that can influence
your scoliosis. - Yeah if you have
one leg longer than the other,
that can definitely affect your scoliosis.
- Right.
So make sure you get this from all different angles
and you know, it's the best
that we can offer for you.
- Yeah, there you go!
Thanks for watching, folks!
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