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- 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 are the most famous physical therapists
on the internet.
- In our opinion of course, Bob.
- Do you remember romper room,
which you used to look through?
- I do remember that!
- Not many people out there
will remember that.
- Today we are going to talk about why
we would not buy a yoga wheel for back pain.
This is a physical therapist's opinion.
- Well, two.
- Yeah, two therapists.
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- Oh!
- They come in two sizes, this one actually
comes with a little stretch belt too.
- Oh, that's right!
- Yeah.
- But these are really high quality,
wouldn't you say? Well, tell them
what you use it also for, Brad.
- Well, outside of balance,
you can use it to kneel on.
- Oh, yeah.
- You can use it, this is where I really like it,
on my outside deck, on my patio furniture I
put it down and this time of year it is
comfortable and it-
- Warm.
- Keeps bottom very warm.
It's just like a little heater out there, it's fun.
- All right, enough of that.
- All right.
- All right, let's start to talk about the wheel.
It's not that we necessarily think this is a bad product.
- Right.
- But we think there's a lot better alternatives.
We've got three better alternatives in our minds.
- And we'll explain why, it makes a lot of sense.
- Right. First, let's talk about
one that is free.
Well, let's maybe show what this does.
- That's a good point, Bob.
- All this does, there's really only one thing
you can do with it as far as I know.
Mike, you don't have anything else do you?
- Well, I have one other thing but
we'll show that later.
- Oh that's right! I forgot about that, Brad!
- It's really not what it's made for though.
- So you're just going to roll over onto it,
and you can stretch, it's really
mostly for the mid-back.
- Between the shoulder blades.
- Yeah, between the shoulder blades,
its is nice because it does fit between
the shoulder blades.
- Can you lift your right arm-
- Yep.
- Towards the ceiling? There you go, see?
I got to admit, it does a fairly good job,
but it's a little tippy if you are on
carpet, if you are on solid floor,
- It is very tippy on carpet!
- Very tippy.
- My wife, that's the first thing she said,
"Oh my Gosh, this is tipping right over!"
- So we got the wife in,
- Opinion
- Input, yeah.
- Now if we go into the low-back here,
I don't like it for that.
- Yeah...
- I think you're jamming the fec eps,
jamming the joints of the back together,
between three and four.
- Between the vertebrae.
- Right, so I really wouldn't use it for that.
So now you're limited to the mid back,
and it's a little tippy, and you can jam
that low-back, plus there's free alternatives.
I'm gonna show the first one, Brad.
- What's the first one?
- The first one if you're trying to work the back
and do extensions, you can just go
ahead and do press ups.
- Oh, sure.
- So you're going to get down on the floor,
or on the bed, put your hands down below
beneath your shoulders, going to keep your
pelvis down and you're going to lift up like this.
You're looking for your boost-it, aren't you?
- Yes I am, it's way over there.
Look at this right there.
He's got a nice job of maintaining pelvic position.
- What you don't want to do is lift up like this.
- Oh, no good, no good.
- So this is a great way, natural way,
you can do it anywhere, any time
without equipment, you can get some
back extensions there, and work on it.
- It's probably not quite as focussed as that,
but the next options are, I think.
- Yeah, you want to show a mid-back one?
- Oh yeah.
- So this one involves just an inexpensive
ball you can get at any big box store, Walmart,
or from your children.
- From your children, nieces and nephews,
don't steal it from a little kid on the
street and they'll go crying to their mom.
- It works good to have a ball that's soft,
or like this one that's partially flat.
Actually works better than a basketball,
would not work that's all pumped up.
You need something that's a little soft,
eight or nine inches at the most.
You put that there and, I really enjoy this.
- Yeah this one has worked for so many patients,
and Mike the cameraman, Mike,
by the way, who is part of the Bob and Brad crew,
you'll have to check out one of their videos.
He actually invented this.
- Yeah. Well, not the ball.
- Not the ball
- But the technique.
- The technique and it can go up and down,
hit different spots.
Yeah, it's been a big hit with us.
- Yeah, next one.
- You should have patented that, Mike.
Okay, next thing, you actually can use
something that is about half the price.
The Yoga... The Yoga... Was it the Roll?
- This.
- Yoga wheel is about 40- something dollars,
you can get a ball for like 15, or 20 dollars?
- Yeah, you and can get them sometimes cheaper.
- And you can do the exact same thing with this,
you can roll back onto it.
- Which I actually like, the nice thing about
this is you can do the same thing.
- Can you hold that for a second, Brad?
- Plus a lot more with it.
- So you can roll and stretch like this,
and it's actually more comfortable
on the back, Brad, it's not as harsh
- Sure don't we (mumbles)
- But you're right, in addition to doing that then,
I have a friend that by the way,
that does that all the time,
- He uses the ball? Yeah.
- Yeah.
But you can do a whole series of exercises.
Brad's going to prove that, because we're
going to have a video coming up this week.
- Yeah.
- That he shows a full-body workout
using the ball.
- In ten minutes.
- I love the ball.
The beauty of the ball, Bob.
- Beauty of the ball.
Less money, and you can use it
for some more things.
One more option, you can actually.
We've got the Fit Index electric
foam roller here.
This is what I use to stretch my
mid-back every morning.
- Oh, yeah.
- I don't put it on vibration when
I do this part.
I just roll it.
This definitely works the mid-back
just perfect.
- Yeah I use one of those as well, Bob.
Did you want to show them the vibration part?
- Yeah, in addition to that,
Oh I'll let you have the honors.
In addition to that, you can actually
work on muscle pliability in all
the different muscles.
So you can work on quadriceps,
you can get hamstrings.
I shouldn't even,
I'm giving it away, aren't I?
Because actually The Bob and Brad Crew,
they are going to do a video.
It's coming out tonight so check
out their channel, Bob and Brad Crew.
We'll have a link to it.
- Oh it's already out, Mike is
saying it's already out.
- Just check it out,
they go over every body part.
This actually has four settings I believe.
Three, four, yeah.
Then it turns off.
Really nice, and this is actually the same price
as the yoga wheel.
- Yeah, okay.
- Brad's back.
- That happens to be what Tom Brady uses.
- Right.
- Maybe not the exact same manufacturer,
I'm not sure, but same thing.
- For muscle pliability.
- Exactly, and you can play football and
(Brad's microphone fails and his voice cuts out)
- Oh, Brad's cutting out.
So, I'm going to finish things
up here, Brad and I can fix
just about anything,
- Except for-
- We can't hear you
- Except For!
- A broken heart.
But we're working on it.
By the way, check out the Bob and Brad Crew.
They are younger, funnier,
they are handling our (mumbles).
Thanks for watching.
- There is one thing we forgot, Brad.
That there actually is one more
use for this.
- Right, there is.
There's a very nice use,
if you're using your stability ball,
you put it down, they always roll around.
You put it on there, and you've got
a holder for it.
- Can you actually sit on it when
it's on there like that?
- Well of course, Bob, of course.
I mean I never do, but you could
if you wanted to.
- Could get some exercise with that too.
- Yeah, I guess.
- All right, thanks for watching.
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