♪ Bob and Brad ♪
♪ The two most famous ♪
♪ Physical therapists ♪
♪ On the internet ♪
- Hi folks, I'm Bob Schrupp, physical therapist.
- Brad Heineck, physical therapist.
- And we're the most famous
physical therapists on the internet.
- In our opinion of course, Bob.
- Your posture is way worse than you think
and we can prove it.
We actually just experienced this ourselves,
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- There you go, Bob.
- So Brad and I just did a video recently on biking.
I was trying to take a picture of Brad for Instagram.
- You called me bread, it's Brad!
See what I'm talking about?
- We eat bread, we watch Brad.
So he's on the bike and I'm telling him
to kind of straighten up, he's like,
and you think you are straight, right?
- Yeah, I was on the bike, on a trainer, so stationary,
and then I go look at the camera at the picture of myself
and I said, it's not me, I look terrible!
My back is round, all like the Hunchback of Notre Dame.
- And that's quite often how you discover it.
You'll see it through a picture,
you'll see it through video.
We discovered it when we first started doing these videos,
that our posture was bad.
- We've gotta get the information out.
- So the problem is your body
has kinda little proprioceptors that kinda tell you
where you are in space.
- Sure.
- And when you sit for a long time,
or you sit throughout the days, after a while,
this feels normal to you,
this feels abnormal to you, to be straight.
So you really need feedback in some form or fashion
in order to stop this.
So one thing that I recommend, Brad,
is really actually just to have video,
someone videotape you from the side,
when you're walking or standing or sitting.
And you may be surprised.
I mean, the other one video that we just did,
I was doing pushups and I thought, too,
I thought I was straight as a board
and Brad keeps telling me to lift up your head
and straighten out.
And then I saw it afterwards, I looked like a turtle,
I mean I was so bad.
- Even the viewers noticed.
- I know, all the viewers noticed, exactly.
Do the video originally to just kinda see what your baseline
is, but then these are some daily corrections you can do
or things to help you correct in one day.
I actually did this by mistake.
My desk was set up in one of our bedrooms
and it had a mirror on the side
that my daughter used to use.
- Oh, those full body ones?
- Yeah, full body ones.
Just you know, you can buy them for a few bucks.
So you set up the mirror on the side of you,
where you do your work, and I look over once in a while
like, oh (bleep).
Oh, I'm sorry, oh, crud.
- It's a family show, Bob.
- A family show, oh, how did I do that?
Can you block that out?
- Yeah, edit it.
- Oh, shoot, I said oh, shoot.
- Yeah, sure.
Carry on.
- So anyway, I look over every once in a while
like, oh, crap, I'm really bent over.
It's something that sneaks up on you
and unless you correct it constantly,
it's gonna get you down.
(laughing)
So next one is that these are some of the things
you can check without having a mirror.
So when you're standing,
one thing to see whether or not your shoulders are rounded,
all forward, see where your palms are.
If your palms, if you're standing up nice and straight,
shoulders are back, the palms are gonna face you.
- My palms are are on my hands.
- Yeah.
So they face your body
- So like this.
- Right.
But if you're rounded out,
they're actually gonna come forward like this.
So just let them hang naturally and you can see
if I curl my shoulders forward,
right away the hands go forward.
- Sure.
- So, very simple.
Brad's gonna show you the wall test that you could do.
- Oh, yeah.
- So you're gonna stand about six inches
away from the wall, with the heels.
- It doesn't have to be exactly six inches.
- Six inches to a foot, yeah.
So now this is the key here where,
are you able to get your head back,
without bending back like this,
can you go back just straight back, like this,
with the chin level.
- And my shoulders are still rounded forward,
get them back too.
- So can you bring his arms up like this, like this,
and maintain contact with all points?
This shouldn't be arched more than two inches,
and you're actually arched a little bit more.
- I am, I'm really tight today, Bob.
- So he's got some areas he's gotta work on
and I would say it's mostly up here.
- Yeah, but I was on vacation for five days
and I didn't do my exercises, I gotta confess,
but I had a lot of fun.
- So if he was stretched out the way he should be,
this would be actually less of a gap here.
There'd be less than an inch gap.
- I'm working to maintain this.
- Less than an inch gap up here.
So you got a little work to do, you gotta get back at it.
- You're exactly right, Bob.
- But these are some of the things that give you,
like I said, you could check it every so often to see
where you are at, where your baseline is.
This is a short video today,
if you want some videos on posture correction,
we have lots of them.
Just put Bob and Brad.
- Yes, we do lot of tricks, lot of exercises.
It's one thing we'll continue to work on, Bob.
- But it starts all with knowing where you're at.
I mean, if you don't think you even have a problem,
you're not gonna try to correct it.
So that's why, check these out, see where you lie.
Remember, Brad and I are not just pretty.
- We're pretty ugly?
- Yeah, we're pretty helpful.
- Helpful.
- There we go, he's finally getting it.
- So not only just hug your kids,
but make sure you hug them and then say watch your (beep).
- That's right, be a good parent.
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