♪ Bob and Brad, ♪
♪ the two most famous physical therapists ♪
♪ on the internet. ♪
- Howdy folks! I'm Bob Schrupp, Physicals therapist.
- Brad Heineck, Physical Therapist.
- Together we are the most famous physical therapists
on the internet.
- Say no more.
I mean, in our opinion, of course, Bob.
- So, how are we gonna stop destroying our back, Brad?
- Oh, Bob, Bob!
This is something that everyone needs to be aware of,
and some people are not and they're wondering,
why is their back bothering them, this situation or that
or when they're up walking
and they just get out of the car.
- This is one of problems with sitting,
is it hurts your back if you do it wrong.
- And if you've heard the phrase,
'sitting is the new smoking',
we could not agree with it more.
It's one of those things that catches up on you.
It's making our life miserable.
When I say ours--
- Again, it's not only the inactivity,
it's also the position.
- Right.
So, if you look at the spine
and that's where it all boils down to.
The seated posture, the bad habits take the spine
from a good healthy curve like this,
we call it the S curve
and turns it into the C curve,
at which point we're putting stress on the discs,
the ligaments, the muscles.
What else, Bob?
- So say C a good health..
- Ya C, or C for criminal
because it's robbing you of good health.
All right.
- Good one.
- Yeah. Well, yeah.
I used to do that when I get a talk years ago on posture
and what not.
- By the way, we're doing a giveaway.
- Oh, yes.
- We're giving away the Bob and Brad
hand grip strengthening kit.
If you want to strengthen your grip
and be able to choke people.
- Oh, Bob, Bob this is a family show,
but also there's five different devices in there
for strengthening individual fingers.
- Great for rehab.
- Oh yeah it really is. Little injury.
You want to get the full function.
- So much for our commercial.
- There ya go.
All right, let's carry on Bob.
Let's get right to it. The first bad habit.
This is it right here.
- And everybody does this after a while.
- You take your butt and it slides forward.
- Yeah. Creates fatigue and you're trying to lean
against the back.
- And then what goes along with that, Bob,
the head forward crash.
You get the full C,
the criminals going after that bag
robbing your healthy spine. So that's the first thing.
Get your buttocks back in the chair and keep it there.
You know, in the car,
there's the dead pedal and it's on your left foot.
You'll see a little plastic or rubber spot there.
You can push and you get your butt back in there.
And I want you to do that every seven minutes.
- It kind of helps keep you in there too.
- It does this amazing thing.
- Now that's only for the driver.
- Yeah. Yeah.
There isn't more dead pedal on the other,
- Right, right.
- They should put them there though.
I'm going to talk to the--
- The backseats.
- We're going to talk to the manufacturers.
Number two, avoid sitting,
we don't have a sofa or soft chair.
So we're just going to pretend we got a nice cushy brand new
piece of furniture.
- So this could be a recliner.
This could be like a side chair.
But you know,
pretty much every couch you're going to sink in.
- Yeah, if you're all feel so nice, so cushy,
but look what's happening to my back.
It's rounding and then you sit there and watch a movie
for two and a half hours. Maybe fall asleep.
Wake up three hours later. I've never done that.
So easy way to correct that
is to take a throw pillow and have somebody throw it to you.
- Yeah. Yeah.
- Yeah you cannot just pick it off the table
or off the chair--
- I can sit in a chair like this or a couch
without grabbing a pillow.
- Yeah.
I've got one of those couches that has the recliner built in
on the ends.
And then in the middle--
- Like lumbar?
- It doesn't have lumbar.
So I'll use this, but it has to, you know,
recliner on the couch.
- Oh sure
- People. Now we're blabbing.
- Yeah what does that have to do with anything?
- Matter. All right. Number three.
We kind of alluded to this already with this throw pillow,
but say you're in a regular chair,
you want to use some type of lumbar support.
- And I think this really comes into play in vehicles,
your automobile, if you're sitting somewhere.
- 'Cause you get shock absorption
and you're in the vehicle for a long time.
- Right. So a lumbar support.
- Well usually we start, we recommend the rolled towel.
- We've got options that don't cost any money.
Just go get a towel from the bathroom and roll it up,
put some tape around there.
Now the diameter of this will vary from person
to person.
- Yeah. If you're a slender build, like Brad is,
you don't need it as much.
- Well, thank you Bob.
- But if you have a large buttock and a big gap back there,
you're going to need a larger support.
- You know, it's the right size
'cause it's gonna feel very comfortable.
If it's too large,
it's going to feel like a big bump and it's not comfortable,
If it's too small,
and that also makes a difference on the chair or the car.
If there's a hollow spot back in there.
- And some car supports,
now you can push the little button
and it'll put the lumbar support on.
- Yeah. Or they got a little thing you pump on
one or the other.
This is a cool little device that really works well.
Get yourself some rice at the store,
fill it up in a tube sock. And then, this is Bob's sock.
Luckily it's clean and then put it,
so he put it the other direction
so that the rice can't fall out.
- Well I have two socks.
- You have two feet.
Yeah. Yeah.
That's what I meant. So he, he put it in one,
one way and then the other side put the other way.
So you didn't tie a knot in there.
I don't know whatever do what you gotta do
so the rice doesn't come out
and it's amazing how that conforms.
- Did you call me a douche?
- Did I say that? Tanner, what did I say?
- He said douche.
- I didn't say douche.
- You do. Play it (indistinct)
- I apologize a family show,
but make sure that you get that lumbar support
where you want it. That's another cheap option.
- That really forms to your back nice.
It feels good.
- And it stays nice and the temperature--
- Well, after a while, if you want to pre, you know,
manufactured one,
you can go online and you kind of know
what the thickness is going to be
because you've been experimenting on yourself
and you can get one that looks decent.
- There are so many different varieties and shapes,
you know, densities; medium, firm, soft.
- This air filled one that you can actually
put more or less air in it.
- And you lock it off there.
I've used all of these.
And I've had, for me, what works best for me
is actually this memory foam.
If you have a sciatic or something like that,
this probably won't work for you.
- I think it works well for spondy--
- Yep, spondylolisthesis,
- I think you're going to want the full cushion on those.
- And I'm telling you this as a major game changer for me
driving in a car more than 20 minutes.
- Even doing the lawn, right.
- Well, yeah, the lawnmower too,
because that helps you bounce around in that.
It's just a wonderful thing I have to have. I don't have to,
but I've been driving this car that belongs
to my stepdaughter.
And if I forget this, I get a backache
within a little over 20 minutes.
I'm not comfortable and I'm not pleasant.
All right. Next one.
- As if he is normally, okay, what's next one, Brad.
- Working on your phone.
- Or your laptop.
- Or your laptop
- Or sitting and watching TV and getting this
head forward posture.
Because for some reason screens
magnetizing and pull our heads forward.
It's just a natural tendency.
- Well the laptop makes sense.
The keyboard is down here and the screen is down here.
So quite often,
if you're going to work on a laptop
for a long period of time,
we actually recommend you get a separate wireless keyboard
and actually put the screen up higher on a desk
or on some type of support and use the keyboard.
- Exactly.
If it's your phone,
you have to be aware of it,
straighten yourself up and get the phone up here.
And not down here.
- I can't tell you,
I go by the bus stop in the morning and the kids
are getting ready for the, you know,
to get picked up as they're all like this.
- Oh gosh. Yeah.
- I mean, it's like--
- They're all going to turn into hunchbacks.
- I gotta take a picture of someday.
- Yeah. And then give it to them.
(Bob laughing)
No laugh.
And then finally, and I put a couple of them together here.
'Cause these are not everyone does.
But you know, if you find yourself,
if you're one of those people that sit like this, you know,
stop doing that or just do it for short period of time.
- This could be hard on your SI.
It could be hard on your hips.
- Yep. It tilts your whole pelvis
and get that spine as well.
So avoid that.
The next thing is is if you go to a games or whatever
in high school or wherever where there's bleachers,
not nothing to lean back on.
It is so easy to end up like this.
- Well not like that. For me, they're really low.
They're too low.
So there's no way my knees aren't above my hips and that
wrongs on my back.
- Yeah. And then you're all rounded out.
- It's like being on a Squatty Potty.
(both laughing)
- But you don't want us potty bleachers.
Now we have a,
you could get a cushion to raise the up or the cushion.
I like it. I use this because it's comfortable.
It's warm. And in the rain, it's dry.
And I can't speak enough if you have a peach choice.
I just love these. It makes,
I remember I went to a game once and it was rainy
and they weren't aluminum bleachers.
So they weren't real cold,
but they were wet and everyone else is sitting there like
ooh, ooh.
And I had my cushion.
- You're in comfort.
- Yeah I was, I was like, ah,
I feel pretty good.
I think I could have sold a couple of hundred of them
that day.
- Yeah.
- I'm just kidding. Anyways.
Take care of yourself while you're seated.
Change your posture. Be aware of it.
Look at other people. You'll find other people slouching.
And after you're aware of it,
that's going to help remind you to get your body up.
- Don't go and tell them Brad.
I mean they should go and tell other people
straighten up. You'll be irritating.
- Right.
We know that from personal experience.
- That's right.
- So straighten up, it's contagious.
- I tell my kids all the time
and then they come and tell me,
and I'm all upset when they tell me.
- What goes around, comes around.
It's all good.
Stay tall, save your back
and you'll be happy as can be.
Once again, Bob, we can fix just about anything,
- Except for that broken heart.
- A broken heart.
- You gotta put it together.
- Yeah and we'll continue to work it out.
- We'll figure it out.
- Continue to work on that. There we go.