- Hi folks.
Do you have pain from sciatica keeping you awake?
We're gonna show you six possible ways.
- Two, two times three
- Six possible ways, or solutions.
- And on number two, the second one, we're gonna also
show you the giveaway, which is giveaway,
which is a really quite the deal.
- Really cool.
- And it's related
- To this
- To one of the answers.
- Right.
♪ Bob and Brad the two most famous ♪
♪ physical therapist on the internet. ♪
- All right, number one is a universal position
for back pain and sciatica.
- Mm-hmm
- I mean this is, relaxes the back,
and it helps the holes where the nerves come out.
- Right.
- Open up a little bit.
- Yep. Gaps 'em and I can feel right now
my back is relaxing result.
So we have a stool.
You can do this on bed.
Wouldn't work like this, but
if you have like an ottoman that does not have wheels on it
you could put that and use it.
You could lie down on the floor.
- Exactly.
- And like in the living room or wherever
you have a piece of furniture, that's soft a recliner.
Well, you could use a recliner
but you know, a cushion
- A chair.
- A chair that has a soft, right.
The height of the seat pan has to be the right height.
If you have to reach way up for it
if you're a shorter person, it may not
- Not gonna work.
- Right.
- Yep.
So when you're in this position, Brad
you can put a ice pack in place, right?
- Yeah.
- I'll grab one here.
- Yep.
So what you'll do is just put it in right under your back.
Get one that when you pull it outta the freezer
it's still flexible and soft.
It's very critical to do that.
Otherwise it's gonna be uncomfortable
and then lie like that.
I've done this many times very successfully.
Oftentimes we're gonna show you the other option
which actually works better than this with my experience.
- Right. Okay.
So you'll fall asleep that way
but you'll probably have to kick it out after a while.
Right. Okay.
- If you have an ottoman that's gonna tumble to the floor
- So we got another option here,
leg wedge, right?
- Yes.
- So it's not quite as high.
- Yep.
- But it works quite well.
I got one for my nephew.
- Oh, really?
Who's going through...
- Yeah.
...Sciatica.
- Was he grateful?
- And he was able to sleep.
- Yep.
- The angle of these, is there something about that?
It really fits well against the hamstrings
and makes things comfortable for the back and the legs.
You can put pillows, put two or three pillows here.
- Right.
- Doesn't work as well.
- Yeah. It works, you have to kind of adjust them
so you're comfortable.
- Well, it could take a lot of pillows.
So you might need three or four, right?
We'll go on to number two, Brad
where we talk about the good boy.
- Yep.
- All right number two.
When you're laying lying on your back, lying.
Lying. Yes.
If you, especially
if you have a large buttock.
- Mmm
- You're gonna have a big gap
in your low back and it's gonna flex
- Yes.
Like this.
And that's gonna be a full, terrible for sciatica
- Right. And I personally like that feeling
of support there.
And I don't, I don't know if I got a big buttocks or not.
It's not ample, but anyways, whatever, it really
helps to try to put something there to fill the gap.
Whether it's a good mattress,
- Right.
- If the mattress doesn't do it, you may need something
and we'll show you that.
- Let's show this first.
- Yep. Just right now.
- So we've taken a sheet, rolled it up.
You can see the tape on there.
And what we're gonna do is I like to put the end right
about here and then wrap it
around and we're gonna go twice with it.
And at that point you can tape it,
put rubber bands, use safety, pins, whatever it may be.
And then you have your gap filler right there
to support the lumbar spine.
- And this mattress will do the same thing.
- Right.
- This is the sleep Sleep Ovation mattress.
- Right.
It's got 700 tiny mattresses.
- We counted them too.
- And we were wrong because well they changed.
But it also got air gaps.
- Yep. Air channels and air flow
so it doesn't get too warm.
And the first time I lied
or laid whatever, on this,
I definitely felt the support
- Support
- in my lumbar spine, which I had never felt before.
Very comforting.
- I have had so many friends try this
at our cabin and love it.
- Yeah.
- So you could go to Bob and Brad
and go to the giveaway section and sign up for a giveaway.
- Right. Send it right to your house.
All right, let's get this outta the way.
- Now, if you wanna buy something
you can also buy a roll, a sleep roll.
- Yep.
- For your back.
- This is a McKenzie sleep roll.
- Right.
- They make real nice ones.
You know, if you find that the
- Sheet
- If the sheet works well, this'll probably work better.
They're made for it.
You just have to get the right length.
One. There's three different sizes and you actually
tie it here.
And then when you roll on your side
this one's a little short for me.
- Right.
- It actually fills the gap there and the
the sheet will do the same so
that you can lie your back or your sides,
and we don't recommend...
- Why don't you go ahead and line your lie on your back.
- Oh a demonstration. Absolutely.
- Just real quick.
- Yep. Oh, oops.
Alright. Oh yeah.
I can definitely feel this
- So again, it stops his back from rounding out.
- Yeah.
- Very good, Brad
- I like that.
Do I have to get up?
- Nope. You're good.
Good way.
We'll go to number three.
All right, Brad, I don't know about you
but in the past I've had dozens
of patients tell me the only way you could
they could sleep was in a recliner
- Right. Yep.
Which we normally don't recommend.
However, there are instances where
- You gotta sleep.
- Yep. Exactly.
You gotta sleep.
And in recliner
I know with oftentimes if they're nice soft recliners
they can actually give you real poor posture.
- Right.
So if you're going, you feel like you gotta do it.
I mean
I first would try position number one from this video.
- Right. Or you're lying down feet up
- Cause that's similar to this.
But if you can't, if that doesn't work
you get the recliner use support for your low back.
- Right.
And this is exactly what I use.
I've got a throw pillow.
When I recline back, I take it.
I put it right here, right about my belt line
and I adjust it.
What feels good?
And I recline back.
And then I actually, if I'm reading or working
on my computer, I don't do that a lot.
But if I do then I put a pillow here
sometimes two, so that my arms are working
- Whoa, you're high maintenance.
- I do. I have pillows and rolls all over.
- Wow.
- Near my recliners.
- Are your feet up?
Or they bent down?
- No, I usually keep 'em up.
because I feel more comfortable with that.
- Sure.
- Not for swollen obviously, but it's definitely
feels better through throughout my back and whatnot.
But this is, is the big thing.
- Plus you go back.
- Oh yeah.
- Okay.
- Yep. I do.
And I actually I sleep once in a while
in my recliner, but I try to avoid it.
- All right. Use the pillow.
- Yeah.
- All right. Number four.
We don't usually recommend laying on your.
Lying on your stomach, right Brad?
- Except for
- This yeah.
Situation.
- So not, not sleeping on it for sure.
- Right. But you could try this position for most of you
it' gonna feel better to have a pillow
or two underneath your abdomen.
Right. So you, you know
you don't have to stay on there all night,
but if it allows you to get to sleep, you know, great.
And then you can roll onto your side after a while.
Any other thoughts on that Brad?
- Well, yeah, you've got the pillows this way,
you might only need one.
- Right.
- You might turn the pillows this direction.
That might feel better to go that way.
So you have to play with it and
find the most comfortable position.
- Yeah, experiment with it.
- And if the leg pain goes away, you know
you're in the right position.
It's a key that you wanna keep aware of.
- All right.
Number five, Brad, we're assuming your pain is
on the left side, on the upper leg.
So you lie you lie.
How I gotta think about it, lie on your right side.
- Right.
And you actually gonna put a pillow or two
under the ankle and this
adjusts the spinal a little bit.
- Here, move that pillow so they can see that.
- Oh. Sure.
- There we go
- Right now, if that removes your pain, try that.
- Right.
- But if it doesn't try two pillows
- Yep. Gets you a little bit higher.
- I have found it really works well with some people.
- Yeah. If it makes it worse, you don't do it.
If it doesn't help at all, you may not.
You may, you may wanna put a pillow between your knees.
- Right. You gotta slight end to knee.
- Yep. Exactly.
- All right. Number six.
This works sometimes.
- Right.
So if you're a side-lyer
- So I like to sleep on my right side.
- Right. You're gonna put a rolled towel in the gap.
- So that's usually just above the belt line,
but you'll feel
it'll feel comfortable where if it's in the right place
- And yeah.
And to stop the pelvis and back from twisting
you're gonna put a pillow between your legs.
- Yep. I do wanna say one more thing.
You find this comfortable
and you wanna stay in this position.
You gotta take another pillow, but put that
- Oh sure.
On your backside.
So that once you fall asleep, you don't have the
the tendency to roll to your backside and then
you wake up painful.
So that'll kind of help you stay in that position longer.
- So Brad, I have an investment in pillow companies.
- Yes. Yeah.
So there will be many pillows
- Whole fry, one
- Just take 'em from the kids. That's right.
They don't need 'em man.
- That's right.
Okay. Brad, that's it.
Six ways you gotta get your sleep.
Yeah. If
- You want, if you don't get your sleep, you're gonna
be ornery in the morning.
Your back is gonna hurt your legs gonna hurt
and then breakfast will not be near as good.
- That's right. So be careful.