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- Hi folks, I'm Bob Schrupp, physical therapist.
- Brad Heineck, physical therapist.
- Together we are the most famous
physical therapists on the internet
- In our opinion of course, Bob.
Today we're gonna talk about what is causing your neck pain.
I have to apologize here, Brad because we're gonna just,
it's kind of an introductory video.
We're gonna show you,
tell you how we approach neck pain,
but we're really not going to show you anything in this one.
So you're gonna have to watch
our subsequent videos to get that.
- So this is a bunch of babble?
- Well, but they're all free, you know? So.
- Yeah, it is.
- So the way we approach neck pain
is that something is not working quite right.
Now the exception would be if you had an injury,
like a motor vehicle accident, or a fall.
- Yeah, some real traumatic force
- Traumatic, right.
But otherwise if it's developed over time,
even if it's arthritis, there's probably tightness.
There's weakness.
Poor positioning, poor posture.
- Right.
- You might have been,
you may not be active enough.
- Right. - Sometimes when you've just
stayed in one position too long
- Oh yes, yep.
- So our first goal is to get the neck position right.
And working and moving right.
So we're gonna do that with exercises
and proper posture.
- Sure.
- So our second goal is to eliminate or lessen
the neck pain makers in your life.
- Pain makers?
- Right. A pain maker.
It's any action or position
that causes you pain in your neck.
So it's really important on these,
to figure out what is causing your pain
because you gotta eliminate that.
And a lot of times, if you eliminate that,
the pain goes away and you never deal with it again.
- Right. I've had patients
just change their posture and wow,
things are a lot better now.
Using lumbar supports or a pillow, or a cervical support.
I was going to say that people,
I've had so many patients say,
well what makes your neck pain worse?
And they say everything does.
But then I talk to him a little more,
- Right. - And eventually,
well this one thing really gets it going.
And then you can focus on that.
- Yeah. And sometimes when you start changes in these things
and the pain starts coming down a little bit
it becomes easier to point out
what really is causing the pain.
'Cause sometimes it's flared up to the thing,
it seems like everything is causing the pain.
- Right, exactly.
- But it might just be you're sleeping wrong,
with the neck in the wrong position.
I mean, there's a lot of things
and we're going to go over that again in all these videos.
Our third goal is to strengthen your posture muscles
in the neck and upper back.
So that you're going to be able to prevent any
fur- future problems.
- Right, right.
- So further or future.
I was starting to say both at the same time.
So there's a lot of reasons for neck pain,
we're gonna address the most common ones.
Neck arthritis, pinched nerve in the neck
cervical spondylosis which is basically arthritis.
Wear and tear.
Headaches in the back of your head.
- Yeah, yep.
- The pinched nerve is also called
cervical radiculopathy, in case you didn't know that.
- Right, yeah. Going down the arm to the hand.
- Neck muscle strain or fatigue,
you'll see a strain lot of times in whiplash.
- Sure. - Or a tear.
Cervical, which is neck,
DGAD, which is a form of arthritis.
- Right. And we should say, Bob,
there are going to be people,
particularly down under it's cervical.
- Oh that's right,
there we go. - Not cervical.
So we can make sure we're clear
and everyone is happy.
We'll probably call it cervical though.
- I'll do it right now, cervical spinal stenosis too
which is neck spinal,
the canal narrows in your neck.
- Yes.
- Or one of the holes narrow, in your neck.
- Right, for framing.
- And that can give you pain on the nerve.
And the last thing is just good old neck stiffness.
Well, we'll show you some things for that, too.
If you want to check this out,
this is part of a series of videos.
So you just go to bobandbrad.com
go to the program section,
look up neck pain, hold,
you know, we gotta download all of these.
So it may take a while before they're available.
But once they're available
there'll be about 20, 30 videos that you can check out.
And what about each video?
- Well, they check it out
and sure enough there's going to be
a PDF printout available for free.
It gives a review of the video,
it shows the exercises, it is really convenient for you.
- Yep, and it's our gift to you.
- That's right.
- And we don't even ask for an email, check it out.