Bob and Brad the two most famous
physical therapist on the Internet
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hi folks I'm Bob Shrum physical
therapist Brad honey physical therapy
are the most famous physical therapist
on the internet in our opinion of course
Bob hey we're gonna go over the number
one cause of painful knots and the upper
back traps and shoulders and we're gonna
show you how to stop it
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how to use it yeah so quite often the
number one when you have painful knots
and and like we call trigger points
myofascial trigger points ER up in these
areas here quite often very common
having up in the upper traps between the
shoulder blades kind of upper back here
that's usually what we call referred
pain that means the pain is not coming
from the muscles themselves they're
actually referring and what they're
thinking believe one of the theories is
it's referring from your spine hmm and
actually the little lining down the
outside of the spinal cord
sure may be causing it so what causes it
you know causes the spine to send pain
off like that is poor posture especially
a rounded posture right in here from
what we call t7 t7 to c7 I'll show you
this on the spine here sure so we have
seven vertebrae that make up your neck
so count them off one two three four
five six seven
here's c7 as soon as you want to let
that larger predominant the bump ya up
the bump and then you may also have 12
thoracic vertebrae but if you take it
down to about t7
you know going down to about T 7 it's
right
blow the shoulder-blades is worse right
that's kind of your landmark district so
from here to here this is the problem
area and when I see people with bad
posture it's almost always that areas
like this sure almost consistently yep
they're they're doing the yeah but this
posture like this like at their cell
phone at a computer but yeah gravity
shaking around it out too but yeah but
no matter what this is the problem here
the issue is if you had your back like
this for a number of years they've
tightened down yeah and it's really
difficult to straighten up again you're
the what you're the person we tell
straight up and you go like this yeah
because you can't even straight in that
area this is where a product like this
comes in hand now you can use a tennis
ball too but it doesn't have the
specificity of the pro point here right
this is made to get right to the four
cent jointer that muscle not that you
can get right into that and stretch it
well some of you may be not able to
tolerate this to start off with sure and
that's why they do have suction cups on
them and if you have a smooth surface
like a smooth door it would take a very
smooth wall if you got glossy paint I
think it might but you know like I'm
glass or like a smooth that has a good
finish yeah door I want to do it on a
glass oh yeah we don't want to lean up
against your glass but the idea is that
you can lean against it without putting
your full weight on it and then if need
be you and once you can tolerate it you
can go ahead lay on the floor and you
know what you're going to do Brett if
you want to turn around again so you
take one of these and you can go ahead
and hit these areas here what we like to
do is you can take the suction cup off
so he would lay on the floor on this
you'd hit this spot this spot this spot
your six spots he'd hit so he's kind of
going right down from the neck between
the shoulder blades and hitting all the
spots here so these are nice in that you
can work one side of the time you don't
really you don't need two of them you
can you can get by with one right yeah
and they're fairly inexpensive and
they're very portable I guess
one other possible use of our me Brad
you could go ahead and put your feet on
them right oh yeah for your plantar
fasciitis sure I'm you can use it on
your hip and your your knee and stuff
will show you want can you show first
Brad the where were we been talking
about about c7 to c7 so again the
suction cup comes off very easily set it
down on the floor is it you know a
carpeted floor would probably work out
best versus a hard floor I got a yoga
mat here and you can see that now I'm
gonna work my left side so my right
shoulder is gonna maintain if you have
never done this before you want to be
you know yeah and you'll notice now I'm
gonna move I'm gonna put pressure and
after you work with it you'll know where
your knot is because it'll be a little
more painful but it should be that pain
where it feels and hurts so good
and after you work it for 20 to 30
seconds that came from the pressure
should start to dissipate and relieve
and if that's the case you know you're
doing the right thing you're gonna work
it for you know up to a minute or two
and you may want to go there and I'm
gonna go like Bob said down and actually
I can feel it right right there yeah I
got a tootsie rolls in there Bob yeah I
gave that my friend is already he's been
doing this with a different device so he
can tolerate a fair amount even you
couldn't tolerate it at the beginning
right Brad right yeah I had a towel I'd
put a towel over the top and put a towel
over to blunt the edge a little bit yeah
because again if you if you are new to
this this is going to be very aggressive
for you and I don't want anybody upset
that you know they try this and they go
one of it you know so you again you
could do it against the wall to start
off with or even set it against the wall
lean up against it I'm going on my glute
or piriformis muscle which is a commonly
a tight spot but again I'm maintaining
good control through my arms and my feet
so I'm gently putting pressure down and
I'm working it you're not just gonna put
all your weight in it it's gonna be
pretty aggressive so I I do you this
type of stretch every day almost I do my
daily stretch program and I had to go to
a funeral lately
not too long ago and so I didn't do it
for two days yeah and I was just getting
all this stress and pain in there and
I'm like is it just for the funeral or
is it because we're driving a lot which
it probably was too but I think it was
from the in-laws the in-laws didn't help
either but I really was there was I like
that daily morning stretcher no to get
me in the good position and I really
takes away a lot of those it's it's it's
like eating healthy food Bob it's just a
maintenance thing you do with your body
you're really into that the diet thing
now later oh yeah you know it's uh I
gotta get another book as a matter of
fact I thought you about that later
that's good to keep reading up on it so
alright remember Brad and I can fix just
about anything except for a broken heart
but this is pretty close yeah you can
work on it look at this just
compressions with it it almost looks
like a heart doesn't it looks like an
egg Wow
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