- Stop what you're doing right now!!!
We've got something important for you to see.
- Five things.
- Five?! Oh five things. - Five.
♪ Bob and Brad ♪
♪ the two most famous ♪
♪ physical therapists on the internet. ♪
- What we're gonna do is help you relieve pain
in your body, neck and arms.
Five different posture checks while you're seated
- and back.
- And what?
- And your back.
And the back as well. We've gotta protect the back.
(whooshing)
Have you ever gotten so involved
working at your computer
and you find yourself in extreme pain
here, here, and back here?
While maybe this is live?
- This is bad.
(laughing)
(whooshing)
- Number one thing is the height of the computer screen.
We have it here. It's very low.
We're gonna show you where it should be.
(whooshing)
If your screen is low like that
you need to get it up and you can see we raised it up.
Look at this.
- Quite a bit.
- Yeah, nine inches.
- Ah!
- The way you check it is if you sit in a chair
good posture, and you take a line across from your eyeballs
it should at least hit the top of the screen.
- Right. - Even maybe lower
into the screen.
The next thing you definitely want to do is
if you're using a laptop, is get a separate keyboard.
Wireless, you know, works nicely.
So your arms are down, your head is up,
your body is straight.
It's gonna make a tremendous difference
on the neck and back pain.
(whooshing)
All right, Bob, number two, look at your arm position
while you have the keyboard here.
I've got the wireless keyboard, which is good
but it's way too far in front of me.
You're humerus, your upper arm,
should be vertical. - Vertical, right.
- So I'm gonna need to pull this in.
I've got vertical upper arm, that humerus vertical.
Bring this in where you need to so you can see the screen.
And then your lower arm should be horizontal
as opposed to - or level
- Up like this or you can actually go lower.
- Right. - That's okay.
- Yep.
- But not anything above horizontal.
- Right.
- Wow, Bob, this is a whole ergonomic class.
(laughing)
- Well done.
(whooshing)
- Okay, Bob, I have to apologize. I jumped the gun.
Number three was keeping your forearm level.
We covered that.
The next one is, if your keyboard,
like this is a very low profile flat keyboard
- a thin board - thin keyboard. That's good.
It keeps your wrist right here in that neutral position.
Some keyboards are elevated.
I'm gonna demonstrate this by putting it on this box.
And now I'm down here and you can see
my wrist is curved up.
- Now I'm good for carpal tunnel.
- Yeah, exactly.
The old carpal tunnel's gonna kick in after some time.
If this is the case and it's not on a box,
it's built like that, it's made like that.
Simply get, they make cushions.
We've got a cushion right here and it's actually comfortable
on your palm - on the wrist, right.
- Yep. And now I've got a neutral position
that takes weight off the arms as well and the shoulders.
So this is a nice, easy fix. - You look set, Brad.
You look set.
- I'm feeling pretty set.
Bob, we got one more though.
- Oh yeah.
(whooshing)
- Now the fifth one doesn't apply to anybody,
but if you sit in your chair and you're too short
and your feet are not flat on the ground,
so the weight of your legs is going through your feet
while they're flat, you might be on your tippy toe
or you may even be swinging your feet.
You definitely need to put in a riser on the floor.
We got a Pete's choice. - A little foot rest.
- I had a person that worked with me.
She just had a little wooden thing that her husband made
at home. Put that there.
And boy does that make a difference.
It allows the circulation through your legs
to go to your feet much more, minimize swelling, pain,
the whole works. You feel so much better.
Bob, was that five?
- That's it. Five - Five things to keep yourself
happy while you're sitting at work or whatever you're doing
on, while you're sitting. You know what I mean?
It could be anything. Whatever.
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