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- Oh, hi folks, I'm Bob Schrupp, physical therapist.
- Brad Heineck, physical therapist.
- And we are the most famous
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- Today we're going to discuss the number one thing
to stop tail bone or sit bone pain.
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- So, we're talking about tail bone and sit bone pain here.
So, tail bone pain, what we're referring to is coccyx pain.
And, so you have this little tail basically, right?
We didn't practice this all night, did we?
- [Brad] (laughing) We're going on the fly.
- [Bob] How're we doing now? - [Brad] There it is.
- [Bob] Okay.
Yeah, right there, is this little bone.
Quite often it happens from a fall.
- [Brad] Yes. - [Bob] Like when you land
on your butt on the ice.
- [Brad] Very painful. - [Bob] And this bone,
this little bone, series of bones,
can get shoved this way,
or it can get this way or this way.
And it can continue to give you pain
for quite a while afterwards, especially because
there's a lot of muscle that surround this.
- [Brad] Right, months!
- [Bob] Yeah, months, if not years.
Another possible injury that this would help,
this one thing, is if you have sit bone pain.
So these are the bones that you feel when you sit down.
- Right, particularly on a hard surface
you'll feel that right there.
And that's where your hamstrings attach, by the way.
- [Bob] That's right, if you sit on the bleachers,
you're going to feel that. - [Brad] Yeah.
- So, you could have a high hamstring injury,
that would give you pain up here.
Also, you could have bursitis, there's a bursa here.
- Sure.
- A bursa is just a fluid filled sac
that helps the muscle glide over the bone.
- Which happened to be highly innervated
so they're a little sensitive when irritated.
- So those are three things this is going to help,
which it may actually help with other things, too.
The number one thing you want to do to stop
tail bone and sit bone pain,
what you want to do,
is stop putting pressure on those areas.
- Sure.
- Because what happens is, you never get used to pain.
Humans don't get used to pain.
What happens is the nerves actually become more sensitive,
and they start firing just at will.
So you might not be sitting very long and all of a sudden
you're having a lot of pain because your nerves
have become hypersensitive.
- Right, it's kind of like that tapping sensation,
you keep doing that, it doesn't go away,
it drives you crazy.
- Right, after a while.
So, like the dripping water. - Right.
- So what we're going to recommend is,
there's two ways.
You know, one, you can not spend any money.
Do you want to show the pillow first, Brad?
- Oh, yes, absolutely.
This is a way, you can just grab your pillow
that you sleep with,
fold it over like that, so it's a little tight,
and a little smaller, put it on your chair.
And you're actually going to be sitting
more on your hamstrings. - Right.
- Kind of towards your knees.
There we go.
- By doing this, yeah, you've removed pressure
from those three areas.
From the coccyx, and also the two bones, the sit bones.
- And actually, if you make sure you sit with good posture,
it kind of does promote good posture so it's not a bad deal.
- Why don't you bring it over here, Brad?
We can show them how you're taking pressure off those areas.
- Good idea.
All right, here we go.
- [Bob] So, just like that.
- [Brad] if these femurs were longer--
- [Bob] We can go this way.
- [Brad] Oh, there we go. - [Bob] Yeah.
- [Brad] Right there, no pressure.
- [Bob] We had mentioned this in another video,
and actually, someone said this saved him on a plane trip.
- [Brad] Oh, I remember that.
- [Bob] Yeah, he said,
"I never would've made it without it."
So, you know, obviously, a better way to do it is actually
to get a commercial product, and this is actually what our
giveaway is going to be this week.
- Oh, finally, it comes out.
- I thought that, you know, this was going to be something
that very few people wanted, but we've done giveaways
of this in the past, and it was actually very popular.
- Yeah. - There's a lot of people
that are having pain when they sit.
And my wife was one of them, and it was not hemorrhoids,
she was having high sit bone, or high hamstrings,
and she was using this in her car,
and we got one for her desk. - Yup.
- And she just wouldn't go anywhere without it,
especially if she had to sit for a long time.
- Right, right, my wife had this.
Well, hers was coccyx, tail bone pain,
and she used one of those blow up donuts for a while.
- Oh, sure. - It didn't work so good.
This memory foam, this is much better.
- Yeah, he's done a good job with this.
And it's got, like a nice little vinyl surface here.
- Mm-hmm.
- It really spreads the forces out well,
I thought he did a good job.
This guy, he's always a real pleasure to work with.
He's just such a really nice guy.
We don't get paid for this at all.
- But he does such a good job, he's always willing
to give some of these away.
So you've just got to slip it in the chair.
I got to point out something here though.
So this is called Ergonomic Innovations,
we'll have a link down below.
But he had asked me years ago, can he use our image?
And I thought he was talking about
both of our images. - Yeah.
- But, look at this.
What's going on?
The band is breaking up, guys. (laughing)
- [Brad] Oh, no, where's me?
He took the good looking one instead of me!
- No, not at all.
- You got a quote down there?
- It says something, it just tells some of my background.
But, we're going to have to give him a hard time about that.
You're going to have to get us both on there somehow.
Get the band back together.
- That's all right.
- All right, what else did I want to make sure, okay,
get things calmed down.
We've done a video in the past on
how to get rid of sit bone pain.
Oh, I know the thing I was going to recommend.
- Sure.
- It's that if you want to get rid of your tail bone pain,
you got to find a pelvic floor therapist.
- Right.
- A pelvic floor physical therapist.
Brad and I are not pelvic floor physical therapists.
- Right, and probably never will be.
- Probably never will, I can be assured of that.
- They're typically females. - Typically females.
- If you get one that specializes in it, it's the way to go.
- Have you known anyone?
- I know, well, I used to work with one.
- I did too.
- In a hospital, but I think she might be retired by now.
- I'm guessing you probably have to go to
a larger hospital, or institution like that.
- Right, right.
- These two were at St. Mary's.
They use biofeedback, and the whole darn spiel.
They were all, I mean, I don't even like to
give any advice on it, because that's not my area at all,
- Right, right. - and I don't have any
expertise on it.
They can really make a difference.
They can help take away that pain for you.
But we'll be doing another video on high hamstring injuries,
we can help you with that.
I have helped people with that.
- Yup, so have I, it's one of those--
You got to work with it. - You got to work with it.
That also can be a real bugger sometimes.
- Bugger?
- Well, bugger, I think that's an English term.
- British, really? - British.
- All right.
How do you spell it?
- B-U-G-G-E-R.
- So it's like booger, but it's...
- Booger is B-O-O-G-E-R. - Oh, that's right!
Sorry, end of discussion.
- Well, we better shut it off.