- Greetings, greetings.
- Hello.
- Hello, greetings and hello.
We are going to show you three nice options that are
going to relieve your neck, shoulder, and arm pain
and the beauty of it, there's no exercises
and no costs, very quickly, and we'll show you 9.3 seconds.
What do you say, Bob?
- Sounds good to me.
- Say no more.
♪ Bob and Brad ♪
♪ The two most famous ♪
♪ Physical therapists ♪
♪ On the internet. ♪
- Okay, this scenario just came up
with actually, with my sister,
but I've done this with patients over the years.
- Yes, so have I.
- Having shoulder pain, and numbness,
and tingling down into her fingers, going on
for months. And she doesn't live by me,
so I'm trying to help her over the phone
and texting as she's doing some exercises
and just couldn't figure out what was going on.
She finally sends me a text
and this is the one thing that took care of the problem.
She has a purse.
- And it's heavy, I bet.
- Well she didn't say the way,
but I'm sure it wasn't light.
And this is how she carries it.
- Right.
- It's a habit. She said, this is a habit.
She says, I took this habit.
- That side only.
- Yep. She took the purse and quit using it on her shoulder.
And she said within two days,
the pain was 80% gone.
She was grateful.
- You know what else could cause it.
- Yep.
- Is a bra strap.
- Sure.
- She wanna get bra straps that actually,
are close to her neck.
- Right. Or the wider ones.
- Or the wider one.
- What are yours like?
- (Bob laughing) They're wide.
- No, that's. But also backpacks.
You know, I always carried my backpack.
- Yep.
- In school on one side.
- I did too.
- So, if you put it on both sides, it's a really good idea.
So simple, easy things that can correct the pain.
- Make a big difference.
- Right. And again, no cost, no exercise.
The little habitual change.
Going on to number two.
Okay, we're gonna talk about another postural thing.
But this time it's something all of us are guilty of.
It's posture with this little device.
- Poor posture.
- Poor posture. This will promote you into poor posture
faster than any other device.
- Right.
- On earth.
- I agree.
(Brad laughing)
I confirm.
- Yeah. So if you're like this, look at that
I'm rounding my back.
- Yep. - Look at that.
- And harden the neck and shoulder.
- Exactly. And you can't breathe so well.
So get up, and posture, and get the phone
right up here chin level.
- Phone up to you, not down to the phone.
- Yeah. Don't drag it down, lift it up
and use those arm muscles instead of that spine
getting all bent out of shape.
The next thing is watching TV or on your computer.
If you're sitting, ha, we don't have any furniture here.
So, we're just gonna have to make due with this chair.
If you find yourself watching anything like this,
whether it's a computer screen, TV and driving.
- And if a screen is low.
- Yep. First thing we're gonna do is scooch
our bottom back in a chair. Get with good posture.
- Raise the screen.
- We're gonna talk about that with the computer next.
- Oh, Sorry. I'm sorry, Brad.
- That's alright. No, I didn't give you that.
But see this thing right here?
Almost everybody has one of these.
- Right.
- If you've got a recliner or nice chair, you really like
and you're not gonna get out of it,
make sure you have a pillow like this
or a towel roll and put it in your low back.
And you're gonna feel the difference from this.
And this will help push.
- Help straighten you out.
- Straighten me out.
- Right.
- Yep, and you may need another pillow or towel
for your head. And make sure you're in a good alignment
without curving your spine for watching that TV
for two hours straight.
- Rounding your spine.
- Yeah. And then if you fall asleep like that,
and then you wake up,
and you're sore and stiff and got a knot right there so bad.
It feels like someone.
- You pay the price.
- Yep. Hit you with a hammer.
So posture, posture, posture, TV, screens.
And we're gonna go on to number three,
which is gonna get the rest of the people that are out there
with poor posture that are causing pain problems, anyways.
(Bob and Brad laughing)
Alright, number three.
As I faded away into some confused babble,
we're now back in track, we're gonna talk about
the computer workstation or laptop,
where you're gonna spend hours of your day working,
doing homework, doing work.
- Possibly, right.
- Playing games, who knows?
But look at this. This is very typical.
The screen is low. Draws our head down low.
Our hand is up on the keyboard like this.
And this is a recipe for pain, pain, pain in all the areas.
- Neck, shoulder, upper back.
- It's gonna tear you apart.
- Right.
- Could lead to surgery actually.
- Right. It could.
- So, what do we need to do?
Number one: raise the screen.
- Right?
- Again, you don't have to go out and buy anything.
You just find some boxes, some books.
I'm gonna use this stool.
And I'm gonna put that there. Lah-di-dah.
That looks a little high.
But it's not really too bad.
I'm gonna put a cushion on my chair
cuz it's more comfortable with that there.
Now, if you look at the screen,
my eyes go across. I'm right about the top
fourth or third of the screen.
That's where you want it.
My posture's up.
- The keyboard up here?
- Yeah. The keyboard is not gonna work here.
So you're gonna get yourself a wireless keyboard
that can hook up Wi-Fi.
- They're inexpensive.
- Yep. Put that down here.
You could even put the keyboard in your lap.
Actually, it works quite well.
- Sure, absolutely.
- And there you go. Good posture.
And this will eliminate so much pain from that neck,
shoulders.
- Simple to do, but very effective.
- Yeah, very effective, very cheap.
Gets your, you know, just go to the neighbors
if you don't have books or blocks or you know.
Get it from the kids, from school cuz
they're not using this stuff at school.
- Something to work, right.
- You'll figure it out. Be creative.
All right, Bob, that's it.
Three things relatively easy and cheap to fix.
Just be aware that they can cause problems.
Bob, once again, we can fix anything.
- Just about anything.
- Just about, except for.
- A broken heart.
- That's right. And this has absolutely nothing to do
with fixing a broken heart.
- It sure does not.
- Yeah. We'll work on it though.