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- Name of today's video is the latest
home treatment craze for shoulder pain
does it work?
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So Brad and I became exposed to this craze.
It's basically hanging.
- Right.
- To handle shoulder pain and issues.
- We found out it's good for quite a few
other health issues as well.
Yeah talk about the book.
We found this book through a comment
one of our viewers gave us a comment
and he said "look this book up"
so we got the book and Bob got it
and we both read it since and we just love it.
- We first were skeptical.
- Oh absolutely.
- To say the least.
Especially with some of the strengthening exercises
even just the hanging.
So it's by John M Kirsch
and we'll have it linked down below.
Shoulder Pain the Solution and Prevention
So he goes into great detail
why you should hang
and he's got a lot of case studies.
- Right.
And he's an orthopedic surgeon.
- He's an orthopedic surgeon for years
in Wisconsin!
- You're right, Stevens Point.
- You can get rid of that book
There was one study that I think he
was he involved with this study?
I don't know.
- I'm not sure, but he uses it
it's a great study.
- Yeah so it was on the Island of Kauai
the Kauai study.
And there was 92 subjects.
Two of them dropped out because of personal reasons
but of the 90 remaining
apparently all of them had good results.
Which is just amazing to me.
- Right.
- Two of them that they really pointed out
were scheduled for shoulder replacements
and they ended up not getting the shoulder replacement
and they ended up doing fine.
And they had follow-up years later
and these people were still doing well, so.
- I think they were still hanging, too.
- They were still hanging, yup
as a preventative or maintenance type program.
- Right, exactly.
- So what he recommends is that,
and I don't know that you need to hang this long, Brad
but he says ten to fifteen total minutes a day.
But he only has you hang like
ten to thirty seconds at a time.
- Right.
- With the hanging what you're trying to do
and we're going to show you right here
quite often, let's say you have shoulder issues
let's say you have impingement
we'll talk about that
tendonitis or bursitis or a rotator cuff tear.
Not roshator, rotator cuff tear.
All these things could be helped by hanging.
- Right.
- Because what's going on here,
you have you shoulder
you have the bone here, the humerus
it forms a ball and it fits
into a socket like this.
Well if you look at the socket,
there's not a lot of room there
for the bone to come up and move.
And in particular we have the acromion
and the coracoid process
and you have a ligament that goes between there.
And that ligament, that's where you can get some
of the pinching going on.
That's where the impingement is.
It's pinching.
- Right.
- So you have a ligament and the tendon
that goes underneath here and that gets pinched.
You see that pink one right there?
That's the most common tendon to get pinched
that's the supraspinatus.
- Right.
- And you can see right there how it pinches.
- Oh it hurts just watching it, Bob.
- So by hanging you're trying to do
one of four things.
You're trying to reshape this arch.
Which, bone is very active.
Bone is either growing or dying
you know, there's osteoblasts.
- Changes shape.
- It changes shapes.
And so you can actually alter,
it's like teeth like when you're
getting braces for your teeth-
- Sure.
- You can alter the teeth.
- Right, which is moving the bone
and the jaw to a certain degree.
- Right.
So we're trying to reshape that
we're trying to stretch
the joint of the shoulder itself
around the entire shoulder is a capsule
and that can be stretched.
So when you're hanging you're stretching that.
You're trying to also stretch the shoulder blade
you want to show that, Brad?
- Right because the shoulder blade does a lot of movement
with shoulder activity.
So here we have a shoulder with the muscles on it
because this one doesn't move
- Right.
- It's bolted in.
But your shoulder blade actually rotates
every time you lift up over your head
there's a lot of movement with your shoulder blade.
- At least zero to sixty degrees.
- Sure.
And if that tightens up it changes the mechanics
and that can cause impingement too.
- Exactly.
- Or be a contributor.
- So we gotta have plenty of motion
in the shoulder blade too
and that of course stretches it.
And then the final thing we want to show
is some strengthening of the shoulder blades too.
- Sure.
- And I'll show you how you do that.
But so what's nice about the hanging handles
they serve a dual purpose
we're gonna show you how you can do some
strengthening with them too.
They come with the anchor
which you have to screw into studs.
- Right.
- Because you know obviously you don't want to
hang on these things and they fall off.
- Right.
- Well if you put them in the studs
they're not gonna come out.
- You have to have a wooden stud behind there
at least in the United States the majority
of houses are built with wooden studs.
But it's possible you don't.
If you don't have wooden studs
you've got steel studs, we don't recommend them.
- Well we put them in the steel studs-
- You can but you gotta have special screws.
- You gotta know what you're doing.
- Right, or have a contractor do it.
- So these handles themselves can handle
270 pounds is it Brad?
- 275.
- Yeah, each.
- Right.
- So they can handle a lot of weight.
Brad I'm gonna actually have you hang
if you don't mind.
So we have it set up so
what's nice about hanging here
is Brad can actually still
keep his feet on the ground
so he can kind of
he doesn't have to hang completely.
Or he can hang completely with the full weight.
- Right I can completely control
I'm varying the amount of weight or the resistance
on my shoulders in the stretch.
So now I've probably got 50 percent now
I'm feeling the stretch.
And this is where some people will start
they're not going to start full hanging.
- Right.
- It all depends on how your shoulders feel.
If you're getting sharp pain you may have to
back off a little bit.
And kind of work into it.
And as you do this more and more
when I do my hanging I go for
I don't do the thirty seconds
mine's a maintenance program.
- Well ten seconds that's all I do.
- Then the fifteen and I do that three times.
And the thing about using the wall anchor
is the wall actually puts your body in great posture.
- Right.
- So you're not only working your shoulders
but you're working your posture.
- Yeah we'll have future videos
on how we can use this for sciatica
and stuff like that.
- Okay, yup.
- Because it works out great for that too.
Because it keeps you in such great posture.
But it's so easy to do
you might want to wear gloves
if you have sensitive hands
you could sure wear golfer gloves.
- Yeah! The ones without the fingers.
- Well the golf gloves have fingers, Brad.
- I don't golf I don't know what they got.
(laughs)
- Like my bike gloves don't have fingers.
- I want to show us something else Brad
you could actually hang with one arm
you know you can start that.
And you can again start at different levels
you can start even going this way.
- Sure.
- And hang.
But the other thing I do
is I actually work the shoulder blades
I don't hang this way
you know facing the wall
but I'm gonna flip around in just a minute
but this is what I do
I just work the shoulder blades like this
I'm tightening them up.
- He's trying to keep the arm stationary.
- Yeah.
- And get all the motion from the shoulder blade.
Oh Bob you're falling apart!
- Everything's all, I'm falling apart here.
So I go like this and I do this every morning.
I just go like this
and tighten up the shoulder blade.
- We'll do more videos we'll have workout clothes.
- Yeah we'll have workout clothes.
- For people that bothered-
- Bob you wanna bring the workout band over?
- Oh, yeah.
- So what's nice about the anchor too
cause the way that we sell these anchors normally
is that you can actually use them with bands.
- Right the workout bands.
- You can actually just flip it right in place here
and now you can work on posture
which is really important for shoulders too.
- Right.
- So you can go like that
you can even do some external rotation
you can even do some of the latissimus dorsi.
- Sure.
- So you can get some bonus,
you can actually do triceps too.
- Oh right, yeah.
- You can work on a lot of different exercises
in addition to
you have to buy these separately
I mean they don't come with it.
- Right.
- But it's nice to have that option too.
- Right.
If you'll see we have banding and more
videos on a lot of options if you're interested.
- Yeah easy solution just about anybody can hang
and John, Dr. Kirsch makes the point
that you're not damaging the shoulder by hanging
because when you get up to a certain level
the tendons clear
they're no longer being impinged.
- Right, exactly that's a good point.
- So there's no stress on the ligaments
anymore when you get up to a certain level.
- And it's not a very expensive book
it's written for the layperson
and it's got some really good diagrams.
- A lot of CT cat scans in there
and a lot of examples of people
that have had good luck with it.
- It's a great book
I think there are surgeons that
don't want people to do this
- Yeah!
- Because it's gonna put them out of business.
- It's strange I couldn't find other
research on it so.
I thought we were just talking beforehand
I thought this would be all over.
- Yeah since we put these videos
out a few years ago
I can't count how many comments
people saying that it-
- It helped them.
- It helped their shoulders
and they're just so happy about it.
- So that's what we're going by
is that we're getting positive results
and it feels really good to us.
- Right, exactly.
- All right well the link below
so you can grab some of these handles on Amazon
and thanks for watching.