♪♪♪ Bob and Brad ♪
the two most famous physical therapists on the internet.
- Hi, I'm Bob Schrupp, physical therapist.
- Brad Heineck, physical therapist.
- And together we are,
the most famous physical therapists on the internet
- In our opinion, of course
- Brad, today we're gonna do facial exercises
for stroke, Bell's palsy, and Parkinson's disease.
- Works for all three?
- Well, it can.
And you know it's, it's definitely for Bell's palsy
which was named of course, after a surgeon, Dr.
Bell.
- Sure.
- And in that case, you actually had an inflammation
of your seventh cranial nerve, which affects the movement
on one, usually one side of the face.
The prognosis for this by the way,
is usually most people recover completely.
- Sure.
- And I would say a lot of people with stroke too,
wouldn't you say Brad?
In my experience, when they get the facial drag
it often goes away.
- Right
- So, there's 16 exercises.
Let's get 'em started Brad.
- Okay
- Brad's not sure you can do all these,
but I'm gonna read 'em
and then we'll go head and go ahead and do 'em.
Exercise number one, raise the eyebrows
wrinkling the forehead as in surprise or fright. So,
(both demonstrate)
like that.
Now, if you want
you can take your finger and help help it too.
- Yeah. If that the weak side is not going up.
- Right.
- And you're in the mirror, just help it out
- And what what's good is help hold it up
and then see if you can let go if it stays up or not.
- Sure. Yep.
So. Number two, draw the eyebrows together,
as in frowning. My wife's really good at this one.
She really can do this one.
- See I already got permanent wrinkles from this.
- Yeah, she's got well we, I got a joke about it.
Okay. Close the eyelids firmly,
forming wrinkles on the outer corners of the eye.
We have a few, too or, too many wrinkles there,
don't we Brad?
Okay. Widen the apertures of the nose,
that'd be the nostrils. Flare the nostrils,
is what you're trying to do.
I got plenty to work with on that one Brad.
- I'm getting facial fatigue already.
- Move the corners of the mouth upward and outward as
in smiling. So it's an easy one.
Okay. Draw the skin between the eyebrows and pull the skin
of the nose downward,
forming the wrinkles at the base of the nose.
I can do this one.
But I think Brad has trouble with this one, don't you?
- This one?
- Yeah
- I don't know.
- All right.
- I feel it working
- Raise the skin of the chin
and protrude the lower lip as in pouting.
(Bob laughing)
Draw the corners of the back mouth as grinning.
I have no idea what Brad's doing.
- My muscles aren't connected very well there.
- Draw the point of the nose downward,
narrowing the nostrils.
So you're just going like this.
I don't, if they're gonna be picking that one up or not.
I mean.
- Yeah, that's a pretty..
- I used to make my friends laugh by doing that one.
Draw the corner of the mouth straight upward,
deepening the furrow, the furrow of the side
of the nose to the side of the mouth.
So
- Looks like if you go.
(clicking sound of the mouth)
- Yeah, that's a good one.
- Then, do it on both sides.
Although it's higher on one side, usually.
- Yeah.
You'll find out your right hand or left handed
I think if your right faced and left faced.
Okay. Raise and protrude the upper lip.
Okay. Close the lips and protrude them forward.
That's a kiss.
- Ah.
- That's a kiss.
- Pucker up.
Okay. Four more, press the cheeks firmly against the teeth,
pulling the corners of the,
pulling back the corners of the mouth,
draw the chin backward.
- Chin tuck.
- Yeah. That is a chin tuck, isn't it?
- And then
- Okay. Draw the corners of the mouth downward.
Do that one.
- Frown.
- Frowning. Yep.
Draw the lower lips and corners of the mouth downward
and tensing the skin outside the neck.
What's, what is this? The Platysma?
- If you get a muscle sticking out here,
it's called the Platysma.
- Okay.
- Had to remember that in anatomy class
- And protrude the jaw on each side.
- So get the jaw to come out that way.
That really works.
- Brad I'd like to convince you of something.
- Yeah. That's how they do that voice.
- Yep. All right.
Very good.
Those are the exercises.
And remember Brad and I
can fix just about anything, but we can't fix.
- Well, it's a broken heart, Bob, but this is getting close
to it.
We're getting the facial.
You start smiling a little bit, the hearts
- Heart's gonna follow.
- Yeah.
- There we go.
- My Face. I need a facial massage, Bob. I'm tired.
- He, he needs a face transplant.
All right.
Thanks.