♪ Bob and Brad ♪
♪ The two most famous ♪
♪ Physical Therapists ♪
♪ on the internet. ♪
- Howdy folks, I'm Bob Schrupp, Physical Therapist.
- Brad Heineck, Physical therapist.
- Together, we are the most famous
Physical Therapists on the internet,
in our own opinion, of course.
We are going to show you the number one
sign the pinched nerve in your neck
is getting better or getting worse.
Normally with a pinched nerve,
you starting to get some pain that's traveling down,
possibly it could be in to your shoulder blade,
your upper trapezius.
- Here. Here.
It could travel down to the elbow,
at the worst it gets, it typically goes
further down to the wrist, and even in to the fingers.
- Yeah, so, and that's what Brad was eluding to
is absolutely true.
The more that you are feeling symptoms down further,
down the arm and in to the hand,
the worse it's getting.
The more improves, you should see
this pain and numbness, or tingling
or burning, or weakness all start to get better.
A lot of times when I see people, Brad,
the first thing is, maybe they had
a little bit of numbness in their hands,
and all of a sudden, oh!
I don't feel it anymore.
The numbness is gone.
- Yeah, they don't realize it,
it's like, oh yeah-
- It's so subtle.
It not always-
doesn't always hit you over the head.
Sometimes, you gotta really make note of your symptoms
before you even do exercise,
'cause that's what we want you to do.
You do an exercise that we suggest,
then you reassess.
You know, is it helping?
Is it showing improvement or is it worsening?
- Right.
- Is it going down the arm worse?
Then you certainly don't want to do that exercise.
So, what we're gonna show ya,
this is the pain a its worse.
- Okay, why don't you stand up
and I'll kind of do this so they can see.
Often times, we get pain down the arm
and some down in to the shoulder blade, as well,
that we have here.
If you just have it in the shoulder blade,
then all your looking for is the pain
coming out of the shoulder blade.
- Right.
- Okay, Brad, we're doing treatment and
it's going well and starting to get better.
Why don't you show what would happen.
- Okay, so, Bob does his exercises,
which we give you on the video or in the clinic,
and he comes in the next day,
and all the sudden there's no-
Remember, the white represents pain, numbness, tingling,
anything of that.
It's not in the hand anymore.
- Keep that, Brad.
Hold on to it for a second.
What we'll do is-
Now, let's say you're doing this-
you got pain like this-
all of a sudden that pain comes back.
- Oh.
- You do and exercise and the pain comes back.
You're doing the wrong thing.
- Right. Something-
Something's wrong.
We've gotta take note of it.
- It might even-
The pain might get better up here,
but worse down here.
That's the worst sign.
- Right. That's not a good thing,
though it might seem like it's good.
- You could take that pain away again.
All right, next, we're doing some exercise.
It's getting better yet.
What's the next step here.
- It continues to go upwards.
- All of sudden, all of this feels normal.
The strength, the numbness, the tingling, the pain.
- Well, let's say, you keep-
something goes on, you get the pain back here,
but it's not here,
it's still bad because you look at the furthest
symptoms away from the shoulder
or the neck.
- Yeah, good point, Brad.
All right, we're really humming now.
Now, it's starting to get better yet.
- Well, look at that.
The whole arm.
- No longer pain in the arm
and you know it's a happy day.
- But, the pain is worse up here.
- Right.
- That's okay.
- You want the pain away and the arm-
from the most distal, or the furthest away,
as we're showing it.
Kind of like a thermometer, I usually tell my patients.
- Now, the next step could vary, Brad.
This one might be getting better
or the other one might be getting better.
- Right.
So, let's say this pain goes away.
We still have it over in to the shoulder blade,
or the upper trap, it's still-
could be either one.
This one is how we have the tape on,
so we'll make it that direction.
- And finally, let's get to the neck alone, Brad.
- Right.
So, I'm going to jump in the way.
Ideally, it's gonna come up like this and
we call it centralizing 'cause here's
where it's coming from.
That's the center,
and it's like, Oh all I do is feel pain now
and it right here
and it's a little more intense,
but it's in one spot.
That's good.
Continue to do the exercise that's making this progress
and then that is going to go away, as well.
- And you turn around and you're smiling
because the pain is gone.
- It is amazing.
This is from the Robin McKenzie system.
He developed this.
He's a famous Physical Therapist.
He's past away now.
- Gotta give credit where credit is due.
It was a genius who came up with this
for the back and for the neck.
- Right.
Completely dedicated to his field, his whole life.
- This video is part of a series of videos on neck pain.
So, go to the program section at bobandbrad.com.
Program Section.
Go to the one on neck pain,
you're going to find a whole series of videos on neck pain.
I think there's 33.
- Okay.
- and watch the videos that pertain to you.
- Right. Just scroll down and they're all in one package.
You can easily pick out the titles the pertain to you,
and then there's gonna be a benefit, a nice bonus,
you can click on the PDF button,
it'll print out a review of the video,
and it's gonna have also the exercises on there,
so you can-
as a reminder.
Bob is a genius who actually developed this whole
program and he gets the credit for it, for sure.
- Wow.
- I'm just here.
- You're doing just as much.
(laughs)
- Good luck with them.
I'm sure you'll have good luck.
- Thanks for everyone watching.
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