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- All right very good Brad today we're gonna
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will never go away. So if you have any shoulder
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- [Russian Accent] You're strong like bull,
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and you can see
- Yeah there is a quote "I've never met a weak
man with uh," I meant " I've never met a strong
man with weak grip.
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a weak grip. All right let's get started Brad
- Carry on.
- All right, first thing is, you're gonna
wanna try to avoid sleeping on the shoulder.
But I know for many people, Brad I have patients,
this goes, I've had millions of, not millions
- Spit it out Bob!
- Hundreds of patients over the years that
just couldn't get away with sleeping on their
shoulder so if you're gonna sleep on your shoulder
I'm gonna show you how to do it.
- Right.
- If you're gonna do it, do it right.
We'll pretend this is the shoulder okay?
So what you're gonna need, generally when you
sleep on your side, you wanna fill in this gap
between the shoulder, I mean, you don't wanna
have your head turning like this.
- You're right.
- So generally you're using what two pillows?
Or one thicker pillow.
- Two pillows there you can fold it in half kinda
works but you gotta elevate this so you get your
spine in line.
- Yeah that might even be too much cause that's
a thick pillow. But anyway, you get the idea.
So, this is the key here though, you're gonna
get a throw pillow, a smaller pillow like this
I sleep like this every night.
And you create the canal and you're gonna put
the painful shoulder in here like this.
And now I'm taking pressure on my head
I'm taking pressure here I'm taking less
pressure on the shoulder.
- So the pressure is relieved through the ribcage.
- Exactly.
- Through that pillow.
- And if you wanna do a little bit even more
Brad you can lay a little bit onto your back too.
- Right.
- Just, just, twist the body a little bit.
- If you think about bring this elbow out which
pulls that shoulder, that relieves it as well
somewhat.
- So, again ideally I want you to not sleep
on that shoulder if you can avoid it.
But that is the next best option. To do so.
Now, let's say you listen to me and you're
gonna try to sleep with the painful shoulder on
the upside.
- Sure, you mean on towards the ceiling.
- Yeah on the other side.
So now in this instance what you're gonna do,
I'm gonna use these pillows Brad.
- Oh the custom memory foam.
- Yeah, just because it's gonna I need
these two pillows. Okay wanna hold onto that Brad?
We heard a phone, you probably didn't hear that.
- They didn't hear that we got the new mic system.
- So okay now you're saying "My shoulder should
be fine right?" Because its up here like this
but you know what, this is what happens doesn't it.
- Yeah.
- And it goes in to kinda internal roatation
and it just in a bad position all night.
We like to have it up in what we call
loose packed position.
So what you're gonna do, you say well
I just take a pillow, well even one pillow's
quite often not enough.
- Not enough.
- This is where we may need to double one.
So you put one here and then you put one
under the arm like this and now you can see
the arm is up and supported.
So now you may not stay that way but just
start that way and if you get a couple hours in,
its giving that shoulder some time to repair.
- And after you do that a bit your body's gonna
know that that's more comfortable and even
when you're sleeping when you take them out
or create space you can train yourself to
sleep this way.
- Yes you can and you'll find out the more
comfortable you are a lot of times less
you're gonna move.
- At night.
- An alternative would be to sleep with
the arm like this too, I mean that's,
if you don't have pillows.
- Sure.
- But it's you know it's better with the pillows
it gives you the little support that way.
All right let's say you're gonna sleep on your back.
Kinda the same thing again. I'm sleeping on my back.
Watch my mic here.
Um, I'm gonna pretend this is the painful shoulder.
When the shoulder's down like this, it is
kinda almost extended a little bit.
A little bit, it's just again gonna be a
little bit more comfortable to have support
like this. Nothing big but it does make a difference.
I find, this is the first thing I'll go over
with people with painful shoulders.
Because if no matter what we do all day long,
if you do the right things all day long
and then you sleep poorly, your shoulder's
gonna be hurting.
- It's like taking one step forward and two back.
- That's a good analogy Brad.
The final thing would be, Brad,
oh, by the way, I'm gonna mention with
that pillow under the arm, I even suggest,
I just saw a lady yesterday, painful shoulder,
and I actually saw her in her assisted living
apartment which is attached to one of the
nursing homes and she was sitting in her chair,
and she likes to read a lot, and her arm
was just hanging like this so we took a pillow,
and we put the pillow underneath there even
while she's sitting in the chair, and when
she reads her book she can put the book
on the pillow too.
- Did she say, "Oh that feels better"
- Yeah she did, I mean, just immediate.
Yeah you could tell right away.
Now the last position people tend to sleep in
is on their stomach. Now that, the only thing
I can say about that, I want you to avoid it.
Cause your arms are gonna be up probably
like this or like this. It's just not a great
position for the shoulder, you're just gonna
have to work your way off of it.
I know, I've never tried this with a patient,
but one thing they had suggested I heard is
you can take a tennis ball and sew it to your
t-shirt so if you lay over onto the stomach,
you'll be laying on the--
- It's uncomfortable.
- It's uncomfortable so you get off of it right away.
- Yeah.
- So, the same I mean if you couldn't sleep on
your back you could sew the tennis ball on the back.
- You sew it on your, how would you sew it?
- Sew it into the shirt.
- Well you're gonna have to have a sewing machine
then or a seamstress, you could take it
somewhere I suppose. Or just duct tape it.
- I was gonna say there's probably simple ways
to do it we could find out how it's all
- I also do wanna chime in Bob, cause we
got a little time here cause if I sleep on my
shoulder, it is clearly painful, however,
since I got a new mattress, clearly better,
it doesn't eliminate the problem but it's
clearly better cause last night I slept on
a different mattress, which actually the air
mattress on the floor, it's a long story.
- Sure.
- But what my shoulders talked to me
- Things are okay with your wife?
- Well yeah, yeah.
- He was at his mom's.
- My mother had to get up early for surgery
this morning so I
- He was being a good son.
- So I slept over at her house. And uh, I uh,
I didn't sleep well.
- I know you're not trying to do a commercial
here Brad but it is true that SleepOvation
mattress they have those 700 tiny mattresses.
- They happen to be right here.
- Yeah right behind ya.
- It's true it's made a big difference
- Yeah I just had the conversation with my
daughter last night, uh, with the company here
and she has a painful shoulder and she's
thinking she wants to get one of the
SleepOvation mattresses.
- Yeah well have her test one out.
- I was gonna say we probably could hook her up.
She tried it here.
- Oh she did?
- She did.
- All night long?
- No that's the problem she you know
- Well have her sleep here all night.
- [Laughs] Sleep in the offices
- Remember and I can fix just about anything
- Except for
- A broken heart.
- There you go.
- But we're working on it. Is it over here?
Where is it?
- Well, we had swayed between the two shoulders
and a little lower it for, we're getting closer
we're zeroing in.
- Thanks a lot for watching.