♪ Bob and Brad ♪
♪ The two most famous physical therapists ♪
♪ On the internet ♪
- Hi folks.
I'm Bob Schrupp, physical therapist
- Brad Heineck, physical therapist together.
- And together we are the most famous physical therapists
on the internet.
- In our opinion, of course, Bob
- Today we're gonna show you nine brilliant ideas,
if I must say so myself,
which I have to because nobody else will.
Easy ways to great posture.
- There you go.
Things you can do at home without going out
and spending all kinds of money.
- Yeah. Let's start off with number one, Brad.
- What is it?
- When you're standing or walking?
I see so many people have poor posture
and a good check on that is just to take your hand
and grab your wrist behind you
and pull on it which you will pull your shoulders back
and then release.
And there you are, in good posture,
as opposed to being like this.
- Yeah. So just remember, sometimes I'll do this
and I'll kinda go like this, but you gotta.
- Yep. - Remember to chin tuck.
- I'll even be walking along while I do it.
Sometimes. - Yeah.
- All right.
- Maybe that'll be like the in thing
- (both laughing) Like a professor.
Next thing, Brad, you have a little surprise in your pocket,
don't you?
- Oh yes, yes, yes.
- Oh I'm glad that's what it is.
(Brad laughing)
- All right.
- So what are we gonna do with this, Bob?
- Well, you do spread-aparts.
- There you go.
So you can just get any kind of a stretch band.
This happens to be one of our Loop Bands,
but doesn't matter, for a little resistance
and then you can work it here
and squeeze those shoulder blades together.
- You can do it anytime. You can do it when you're sitting.
You can do it when you're walking.
You can do it and you can throw it back in your pocket.
- There you go.
- So, Brad, how about whenever you're gonna sit on a couch
or a recliner, something soft, maybe even in your car,
you should use some type of support.
A throw pillow works well for a couch or a recliner.
- Yeah, especially something that's soft and squishy.
You need a little more volume.
Plus it kinda blends right in when you sit.
I use these all the time.
- I never sit on couch without grabbing a pillow.
- Yeah, We've increased our throw pillows
in the last number of years.
- They're everywhere.
- So make sure you have one available
and I can feel this it's so much nicer than this.
This is a hollow spot. - This next one, Brad
I'm sorry to cut you off
- No, that's all right.
- This next one, I see so many people,
they have their cell phone and they just go like this.
- Why the cell phone?
Yeah. You're all scrunched.
- I mean it's very simple.
You just shorten your arms.
You can support your elbows off your body if you want,
but just bring it up like this.
Do you have to have both hands up?
- Well, I do.
I mean, but you could go like this one hand
and they type with one hand,
but this is, oh it's gonna be bad for your upper back.
- I think they've actually made devices
where you can hang your phone up off your shoulders.
Didn't we see that once?
If not, maybe we should make one?
So you can just have your cell phone hanging there
and promoting good posture.
And you could use your hands for something else.
- Sure. All right.
- Just an idea.
- Moving right along.
All right, next one is Mike's invention
the ball in the back.
We love this one
- A softball, like you'd use for kickball,
not a basketball or-
- Or a dodge ball
- A dodge ball would be good, but not a soccer ball,
that'd be too hard.
Put it here, you know, anywhere between the shoulder blades
up or down in there.
And then you lean back into it and just relax
do a little chin tuck with it and stretch
and roll the ball wherever you need to get more extension.
A lot of times you will go
then it'll go crack, crack, crack, crack.
Oh, I say that's a good deal.
- It's a great one to have around your chair
that you can work on because it's so simple
and you can adjust it.
- And you can even use this
lying on the floor, on your back.
- Yes you can. Yes you can.
- But we're not gonna do that for this demo.
- All right, Brad do you wanna show
the whole computer set up here?
- Yeah.
- Another one that we see quite often.
I see people they'll put it in their lap
and they'll sit in bed.
- Yep, or like this, on a lower level.
- Exactly.
- Or like this, (groaning)
things are just getting tore apart.
So elevate it, however you want, get some boxes.
- You can buy a stand if you want. Make it look good.
- Get it up.
And actually I would want this a little bit higher.
- Yep. A little bit higher, yep.
- And then, you know, if you got a laptop, go get yourself
a wireless keyboard for about $20.
Get it hooked up.
(groaning) And as I type
(Bob chuckling)
I had a 120 words a minute like this,
actually not, but my posture's good.
My head is up.
- He pecks, he does like 12 words a minute
- Yeah. Then I swear a lot too sometimes, bad words,
but this, you know, this is no good.
This is much better.
- Right. Exactly.
- So, do some simple things.
- Extra keyboard is so inexpensive.
I mean, don't make us come out there and slap ya.
- Yeah. We don't want to see that kind of thing.
- All right, next one is, hey Brad,
if you don't mind coming over here just for a minute.
- Oh yeah. What are you gonna do?
- I just wanna show you that this quite often
this area right in here is quite often flexed
in bad posture.
Why don't you show from the side first.
- This.
- Very often.
- Ooh.
- And that's really tough to correct
because these are tight structures
that are really tough fibrous material.
So what we need, is we take a ball, like a tennis ball
and you lie on it on the floor
and you can hit these three spots.
Here's a spine hit this 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
just for like 20 seconds each lie on 'em.
Bring your arms over your head, let it stretch.
But you can also take a ball in a sock,
if it's too aggressive for you,
and actually lean up against the wall
- Get it lined up where it needs to be.
And there, nice thing about here,
it's easier, you can roll it.
It feels good. You can feel those tight knots
getting worked out.
There we go. Yeah, carry on Bob.
I'm having a massage here. - There you go.
The final one, Brad is,
you know we usually start with this one,
but we actually finish with it.
Is just doing that chin tuck in your car
when you're driving.
- Oh yeah.
- So you're actually gonna tuck your chin in like this.
You don't wanna go up, you don't wanna go down,
you just go back
and you can provide a little extra pressure
with your finger tips
but keep your hands up your steering wheel, right?
- Oh yeah, when you're driving, you don't do that of course.
- But I mean, you know, you can do it safely in a car.
People will look at you
and wonder what that chicken is doing in a car.
- They'll say, "Look it, they've been watching
"that damn Bob and Brad again."
I'm glad we did that one last
because we've been doing that one
so many times over the years
people would've turned us off in the first one.
- Exactly. That's what I was thinking.
So, I'm thinking all the time, Brad.
- Yeah, absolutely you've always gotta be.
- Remember, Brad and I can fix just about anything.
- Oh yeah. Except for...
- A broken heart.
- Right.
And this ball in the sock is not gonna do anything for you.
- Well, you tried on Valentine's Day.
I mean, you gave your wife that ring.
- Oh yeah. That's right.
Yeah, she took it back.
- It's on video. It's on video.
- Yeah. She took it back.
- Took it back? Took it back to where?
- To the jeweler.
- She wants to buy something else?
- No, she had to get it fitted to her ring. (Brad laughing)
I got everyone.
- Yeah. All right.
Thanks for watching.
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