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All right, Brad, arthritis pain.
Now it not only comes from the joint itself, the shoulder.
But, it also comes from the tissue surrounding the joint.
Especially the ligaments and the tendons
and you can even get, maybe get a little impingement.
- Right. The capsule can tighten up
and all those things add up to pain.
- Right. So sometimes it may not even be
your joint that's painful.
- That's possible.
- So if your shoulder is tight,
pain can often be reduced by regaining the motion.
And that's what we're gonna do here.
We're gonna show you how to regain your motion.
So the number one exercise that
we think helps is the statue of Liberty exercise.
- Wow.
- You called it that.
- Wow, I invented it.
- Yeah, you invented it.
- I don't know if I invented it.
But I had never seen before
and I was working with a patient.
- We're gonna say you invented it.
- Yeah. And actually it, it fits,
it looks, it's obvious why it's called that.
- So you're gonna need a Booyah stick,
or you're gonna need some type of pole or broom handle.
- Right. About five foot long and
the bigger the diameter better a inch in diameter
inch and a quarter really is easy to grab onto.
- Yeah and it, it's nice to have tips on it.
You don't necessarily have to, but, but you'll
you'll see why it does help.
We are, you know, put a little plugin for ourselves here.
We're gonna sell the booyah stick
on our website for 15% off plus free shipping.
So we'll put a link below.
It's the red one here.
- All right.
- So, all right, so let's start off
with the first one, Brad.
do you wanna do it in the chair or where do you wanna do it?
- Well, yeah, let's do it in the chair.
- And I'll do it standing.
- Yep.
- Well, we're gonna start.
- Uh, progressive.
It's gonna be the progressive statue of Liberty.
We got we're moving on here, progressive.
- Right.
So if you're sitting in the chair, make sure,
you know you got a firm chair is better
and sit up to the edge with good posture
as best posture as you can get.
And standing as well.
- Standing as well.
You can go up to a countertop or,
or you could go up to a chair.
Depending on, on your height.
So you're gonna start off.
Do you want me to start off Brad?
- Yeah. And that's why it's beneficial to have
a rubber Pad, a tip or something
so it doesn't slip and slide.
- Yeah.
And again, as a plug for our booyah stick,
for whatever reason,
the material we're using, it's not PVC pipe, really.
It, it's furniture grade and it's really it grips.
- Right.
- It grips really well.
- Yeah.
It really just, it just works well.
- So with progressive,
what we're gonna talk about is
your shoulder maybe only goes this high.
I just had a lady, Brad.
That she, she was initially starting off 85 degrees.
You know where that is?
- Yep.
- And by the time she was done
doing these exercises she was at 140.
- You mean in one, one, one session?
- No, not one session, but it was well, what was it Mike?
Mike worked with her a couple weeks?
Couple weeks.
- Yeah, which is good.
- Yeah you gained that much.
- You can't expect miracles.
- Right.
- So. All right, so
we're gonna, you know, give it whatever it takes,
you know, whatever it gives you, we're gonna take it.
- Right.
- So if we go this far
we're gonna start leaning forward like this and
putting pressure on the shoulder.
A nice little stretch.
- So it's just gonna be an oscillation.
It's like pressure on, pressure off.
- And you can do some end range stretches too.
- Sure. Yeah.
- Now look, I'm keeping my back straight.
But, that's why the chair
sometimes works better for this because
Brad's got his back nice and straight
while he is doing this.
- And, and if you find that you have to
lean too far forward to get the stretch, that's good news.
But, then just lift your hand up.
- Yep. Start moving your way up.
- And then you don't have to lean so far.
- Hence the name progressive statue of Liberty.
- And it's not clear yet why it's called statue,
statue of Liberty, but it will be.
- Yep. As we work our way up.
- Yes.
So we continue to do this and you may
work this for you know, 10, 15 repetitions.
If it continues to feel better, you can go more.
But, the first time you do it, I wouldn't do it more than
10 or 15 because it might not feel too bad while you do it.
But, because of the stretching
it hasn't experienced for a while,
It might get real sore the next day.
- Yeah.
This is not a no pain, no gain situation.
We want this to be a painless basic.
I mean, you could have a little bit of,
a bump into the pain, but not bad.
So yeah,
then when you get up to, all the way to the top.
Now you're starting to look like
the statue of Liberty holding the torch.
And, you're gonna go ahead and lean forward
and you can really get a stretch on there now.
- Yeah.
- And, and this is where the money, uh, is made.
- Right.
- So this is where the gains are made.
- And for, if you're doing this in a chair and like
I'm on the floor, but it's not high enough anymore.
So, I'm gonna actually bring the stick up
onto the chair seat pan itself.
I'm gonna get my reach up there.
And then right now I'm really getting an aggressive stretch.
And again, you're not gonna make it sharp pain or anything.
It should. By this time after doing it for a few days,
it's just gonna be a gentle stretch and feel,
feel like a stretch, but not aggravating it.
- Your getting your reach on Brad, Right?
Like getting your freak on.
Is that okay to say Mike?
I don't know.
All right.
- Why Bob?
Why?
- All right, let's go to the next one.
Uh, shoulder extensions.
So let's say it's, you know, you've been doing that one.
Now you can do all of these.
Or, you can pick out the ones that work for you.
Cause some of these may be a little more difficult.
So I like Mike's little suggestion.
He says it's like rowing a boat.
- Oh, sure.
- So you have the palm down
and this palm up or to the side.
You know, outward basically.
- Yep.
- And you're gonna go back like this
and you're stretching back into extension.
- Sure.
- As far again, as pain will allow.
Just, you know if pain hurts right there
stop right there and bring it back again.
- Yep.
Now looking from the back view.
He's not going out to the side, but it's, it's behind you.
If you can do that.
So here and if it hurts there.
But, it's better out to the side, that's okay.
Actually it's probably good,
cause' eventually you will get it to go straight back
with more stretching.
You can do this one in a chair too, if standing.
If you're balance is maybe, needs some work.
You can do it in a chair and you know,
it's really kinda like rowing the...
- I suppose you could do it in a canoe too, I mean.
- Well yeah, but
- And then you work some trunk and core
and have some outdoor activity.
- Now we had some discussion on this.
You can actually put the,
the stick behind you like this and,
and dip down a little bit.
- Yep.
- Stretch it that way too.
If that's what you prefer.
It's just a different way of going at it.
- Right. Yep.
- So, shoulder internal rotation.
Do you wanna show that with the belt, Brad?
- Oh, sure.
- This one is one that I have found
some people just can't do it.
It's a very good one to do, but it,
you know some people have trouble getting into this position
cause' they can't get their arm much further than this.
So, you bring the arm around
like this and you gotta find it.
And then you're gonna just
start working your way up like that.
- If you've got severe arthritis,
this is gonna be very challenging.
It depends on the level.
You might have to work the statue of Liberty
and the other...
- Extension.
- Extension,
then work, you know, after a couple weeks...
- Get into this, right?
This would probably be the last one.
You can do this with a belt too.
Brad's gonna demonstrate.
- It works best with a, a leather belt,
something that's shiny and smooth.
And, you hook on there and you get a loop,
put that on your wrist.
And then this does...
- Take a little bit of coordination.
- If there's someone to help you
to get it over your shoulder
and then you're just gonna relax
the arm that's being stretched right here.
And simply it's gonna go over your shoulder
like a pulley system.
And then you just go up and down.
That, that's why you have a shiny belt.
It goes so much nicer, um,
and you work it just like that.
Stretch and down.
- The next one is kind of a progression from that.
This is the one I invented.
- Oh yes.
- But Brad came up with the name.
Called chicken wing from his wrestling days.
So again, one that's gonna be difficult for
a lot of you to do.
This is great for impingement, if you have it.
And, and, but even shoulder arthritis
if you can get there, it's gonna help.
So you're gonna start off like the internal rotation one.
So the palm is out
and this palm is forward.
- So this is the shoulder being stretched.
- Yeah.
This is the shoulder being stretched.
I'm not gonna run into my head here.
So, I wanna go a little bit off to the side.
So I bring it up
and then I'm actually gonna leverage,
lever it out like this.
- This is one probably more for younger people.
- Right.
- But if you're, you know, if you're older
and you're able to do it and you're not
gonna crank on it hard, you're not gonna create sharp pain.
It's a stretch.
- Needless to say, you wouldn't do any of these
with a shoulder replacement. (Bob laughs)
- That's a good point, Bob.
Very good point.
- These are, these are for arthritis.
Or like I said, this is a great one for impingement.
- Right.
- So again, pressure on pressure off.
Always pain be your guide.
Never, never, you know, allow pain to,
to creep in their too hard.
- Exactly.
- Okay. The last one is abduction.
This is kind of probably
I'd say the least needed to do.
- Yeah. Probably.
It's least functional.
- Yeah. If you do the other ones,
this one's probably gonna come around.
- Sure.
- So we got palm down on this side,
palm up or out on this side
and you're just gonna work going out to the side here.
Going up to the side and
I don't know is this like any motion like rowing
or that's not,
there's nothing.
Shovel!
Oh there Mike says, yeah like you're shoveling.
Look at this.
- This is the shoulder that we're being stretched.
- We're working on, yep.
- So yeah,
throwing the snow, which we will be doing soon,
won't we Brad?
- Oh, they're talking like this weekend maybe.
- Oh gosh,
(Brad laughs)
that's just not fair.
So, all right.
So there they are, um,
you know, give 'em a shot.
Don't need to do all of them.
Do you know,
I would definitely start with the statue of Liberty.
- Right.
- That, that that's one I'd maybe have everybody do.
- Yeah.
- And then you can see which other ones work for you.
- Right.
And once again, the booyah stick
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- Yeah, yeah.
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So all right, Brad.
- Booyah.