♪ Bob and Brad ♪
♪ the two most famous ♪
♪ physical therapists on the internet ♪
- Hi folks, I'm Bob Schrupp physical therapist.
- I'm Brad Heineck physical therapist.
- Together we are the most famous physical therapists
on the internet.
- In our opinion of course Bob.
- Brad has a story for us.
- Bob, like I was just gonna get into,
this was about 10 years ago,
my wife and I are out riding, I rode bikes
and we were drafting.
So she was right behind me using my draft to keep up to me.
I mean.
- Not difficult.
- Yeah, anyways.
So I'm riding along and we're doing about 20 miles an hour,
just a little over 20,
and all of a sudden I hear this sound of like
flesh hitting the pavement and a bicycle
and I looked behind me and sure enough,
there was my wife laying on the road, all twisted up,
the bike was, you know.
- Is this the time she dented her helmet?
- She broke her helmet.
- Oh my gosh.
- And that's what's supposed to happen.
The helmet breaks so your head doesn't
and she's lying there on the road, it's a county road,
traffic could be coming any time
'cause it was in the morning before work
and it's like, oh my goodness
and I go back there and she's moving and she's talking,
but she's not doing very well.
Anyways, we ended up, someone came along and helped us out
and called 911 and we got her the ambulance search
and she ended up being okay,
no concussion, nothing serious,
but she did not only that protected her head,
but her shoulder came down on the pavement
and dislocated her AC joint and the GH joint,
the humeral head.
And since then, again, about 10 years ago,
she's had chronic shoulder pain
kind of on and off functioning fairly well.
But what would happen if she would reach over like this
and this is a test for the AC joint,
we're gonna get into this.
So we do have a title have relating this
to AC, the acromioclavicular joint,
which is a common joint that gets injured on shoulders.
- So you see kind of this S-shape bone.
- That's the.
- That's the acromion, I mean, that's the clavicle.
- Clavicle, yes.
This is the acromion we're getting backwards
and this tissue here is the ligaments that connect the two.
Well, this is either this bone.
- You see it over here.
- Yeah, there you go.
Either this bone fractures, which is very common,
the clavicle.
- It happened to my son.
- Sure.
- He landed on his shoulder and it broke.
- It broke.
- It splintered. - Yep.
If that doesn't happen, sometimes in her case.
- It gives way.
- It gives way and you get a separation
from the clavicle to here and there's a couple of tests.
So if you have shoulder pain from a fall,
you may wanna do this
or if it's even chronic 10 years later,
and the test is still positive with my wife Julie.
- Why don't you show the test Brad?
- All right cross over,
if this was a shoulder.
- Very simple.
- Over like this, grab the elbow and pull.
And if it's painful, you may have a problem now
and do it, Bob.
Let's pull this up.
We have some tape on here we'll talk about,
but you can,
like with my wife so you can see the clavicle
actually dislocated and pop up about a half inch
and it's a little painful, but not too bad.
Her body's adapted to it and then come back, okay?
Then the other test is
you can't do this to yourself, someone else has to.
Here's the clavicle,
you put your palm right on the clavicle.
- Right on the bone.
- And then on the back, your other palm goes here
and then you squeeze in
and see if it implicates pain
or you can feel movement or both.
- That's also called the collar bone.
- Yeah, I think it's the most commonly
broken bone in the body.
- I wouldn't be surprised.
- Statistically speaking.
So I would go like this to Bob
and I can easily feel the collar bone back here
and I squeeze.
- Your shoulder blades push it on.
But you could do this,
have someone do this to you even if you have shoulder pain
and don't know what causes it,
because a lot of weight lifters get this.
- Oh really?
- Yes they do.
- A lot of stress on their.
- Especially benching.
- Yeah, that's what I was thinking.
So, you know, this is one of those injuries where
typically time is going to heal it,
but you have to treat it properly, don't irritate it, okay?
So this happened to my daughter too
actually playing basketball, that was about 15 years ago.
- It is a common injury.
So what did I do?
I went to the canoe sealer tape, you know, to save,
did this to my daughter as well as with my wife.
And we went to what's his name?
- John Gibbons.
Get John Gibbons' book or you can just.
- He's on YouTube.
- Yep, he's on YouTube, he's got some excellent videos.
He's very knowledgeable. - Very knowledgeable.
- So here's AC-joint, he's taking three
and you don't have to use different colors
I just did so you can clearly see it,
you go over the AC joint.
I already put two on criss cross there, make an X,
and we're going to one more, pull that off.
- So basically you're trying
to hold the bone down in place somewhat.
- And you give it stretch you can go stretch all the way
and then back off 50 to 75%.
And again on the last half inch of the tape,
no stretch at all, put it down and then,
oops, you should take this,
I mean, you rub it for 30 seconds.
I'm not going to take the time to do it, but do that
so that it thermal sense.
- You mind going over that again, Brad?
So you pull the tape all the way a hundred percent.
- Yep.
- And then you back off.
- 50%. - 50%.
- 50 to 75%, there is no exact.
- So there's not that much stretch on there.
- But there is stretch.
- Okay. - Yeah.
You definitely want to have stretch on it
and you do that three times in a crisscross pattern.
- There's no stretch on the ends.
- Yes, you do not stretch it there
and that anchors, it sticks better there and you know.
- It'll stay stuck.
- And you rub it over.
- Heat it up a little bit.
- You use the right side of this
and you'll feel it's very slippery, the other side.
- And how long can you keep the tape on?
- As long as it stays on.
- Sure.
- Usually you get about one to two days.
- And you can shower with it on.
- Yup, if you put shower on,
shower with it and use soap and water,
it won't stay as long.
So you just keep away from it in the shower,
you just work around it
and then you just replace it.
When it comes off, put it on again.
- Kinesio tape, it seems like it's fairly,
it's not harsh on the skin.
It may bother you after a while,
if it does you stop using it.
- I've never had anybody
have skin problems from Kinesio tape,
I have from Mechano tape.
- I have too.
- That's another story though.
So anyways, and you treat this,
now, I gotta be honest with you,
I've had success with this,
with both my wife and my daughter,
but it wasn't like it healed it.
- Sure.
- It helped it.
- It just patched the pain problem.
- Right, kinda helped and sometimes I think just
that tape on there brings attention and you.
- Move it better?
No, you avoid moving it.
- Oh sure.
- In the painful areas.
- To be honest Brad, I don't really feel it.
I don't feel the tape at all.
- But when you move,
you probably feel a little bit of a pull in.
- Yeah, a little bit.
- So it.
- It keeps you on the rails.
- Right, it keeps you attentive to it
so you just don't reach over and forget about it
and then tear open the healing tissues.
- I can see easily how it would prevent some movement
in your wife's clavicle.
I mean, it would kind of hold it in place.
- Right, yeah, 'cause hers was pretty dramatic.
- Instead of grinding it up and down.
- Anyways, people are probably wondering
how in the hell did you get it fixed?
And this is a beauty of it.
I showed her the exercises.
I said, take the TheraBand out
and do this exercise and pull back.
And I gave her three exercises to do,
make sure you do them three times a day.
And she says, well, what's gonna,
what's the worst that's gonna happen to this side?
I said, this is gonna hurt when you do this and do that.
She said, I'm not doing those exercises.
You're not gonna do them?
- Number one patient in Brad's life,
is his wife and she doesn't listen to him.
- I mean, she's functional with it.
- So the tape is all you're doing.
- Well the story gets better, Bob,
because we found out that the trick
and this had nothing to do with me.
Well, it did a little bit.
But one thing that always irritated her
was she would sleep on that side,
and would wake up in pain,
oh the shoulder hurts and out here in the morning,
my shoulder hurts and I said,
well, don't sleep on that side.
I can't help it at night, I'm just sleeping
and I turned automatically.
So she says to me, this has just happened a month or so ago.
She said, let's change sides of the bed.
And I said, I can't, I'm a man.
I'm on the right side, I have to be on there,
I can't change.
And she said, let's do it.
So I did it naturally I got stupid.
And so we went to the opposite sides of the bed.
And within a week, her shoulder pain is gone,
and that had been going on for all these years
and she managed it,
and she could get away with it actually, no,
the last year it's been getting worse
maybe because she's a little older, who knows?
But it was amazing, she said, oh, my shoulder feels better.
And as the week went on, it's like,
and now she hasn't even talked about.
So the simplest things,
find something that irritates the joint and stop doing it.
- Find something that irritates your wife and stop,
get rid of it.
- Right.
- Get rid of you Brad.
- Well, one way or another changing sides of the bed
so the tape, there are exercises,
we do have videos on exercises
to stabilize the shoulder joint.
Really that would be helpful I'm sure it would.
- That's a big boot camp.
- The boot, well that's where she goes to work out.
She goes to her burn boot camp
and she loves those exercises, she does very well there.
- They don't do shoulder exercises.
- Well, they do, but not specific ones,
but she's actually able to do those.
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