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♪ Physical therapists on the internet ♪
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- Hi folks, I'm Bob Schrupp, Physical Therapist.
- Brad Heineck, Physical Therapist.
- And we are the most famous physical therapists
on the internet.
- In our own opinion of course, Bob.
- What do we have here, Brad?
- Bob, we have a wonderful, adjustable work desk.
- Yeah, well who's this?
That's what I'm asking. - Oh, well!
This is my fine nephew, Ryan.
Can you say hi to everyone Ryan?
- There we go, and nobody's going to be able to hear him
'cause he's not miked up.
Today we're gonna talk about five types of people
who need a stand up desk and we have different
versions here and these are all by Varidesk.
These are finely made units.
- They're commercial-duty, no doubt.
- Yeah, this is the best, they're the top of the line.
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Also, you want to go over to bobandbrad.com
and go to the giveaway section,
'cause right now we are giving away a stand up desk,
this one right here actually, the ProPlus 36
and this is one that you can put on an existing table
- Sure, yup. or desk and it rises up.
You can also go to Facebook.com/Bobandbrad,
and he's pointing it out,
and we'll be pinned to the top of the page.
All right Ryan, you've done your job.
You're now dismissed. (chuckles)
Missed that?
He says thank you.
All right, why don't you come on over here, Brad.
- Sure.
- This is their, like I said, ProPlus 36, very nicely made.
It's also got, we put on one of their monitor arms
and laptop cradles.
Now these are really cool, 'cause look at these.
This goes up and down and all around.
- (laughs) It does, it really does.
- It's really cool.
- There, if you want to get it out of the way,
you get it out of the way.
- We haven't attached a monitor to that yet but--
- Your screen would go there.
- This thing, what'd we decide, how many--
- Ten!
- Ten levels at least?
- Ten and they're all indexed.
- So it'll go just like that,
really easy to use and it's real solid
and we're gonna go over some of the benefits here right now.
What are some of the people that should use a stand up desk?
If you have neck pain, 'cause if you have neck pain
and you're sitting at a desk all day,
your neck is gonna start doing this.
What the nice thing about a desk like this is
you can make multiple adjustments to how you have your neck.
- Right. - You know what I mean?
You can kind of change it throughout the day.
- In other words, Bob could be standing
and have it at one level,
and after an hour or so,
say he wants to just sit partially,
he can sit halfway down and adjust to that,
or if he wants to sit at a lower level
that seat adjusts up and down as well.
- Yeah, this is one of their chairs by the way too,
which is just awesome.
This thing is fantastic 'cause it goes up,
it can be used like a stool,
but it can also be lowered down
and used just like a regular chair.
- And it flexes, right--
- And it flexes, so yeah, it flexes forward,
so isn't that cool?
- Yeah it fits right to the hips and the pelvis
and the whole body.
- But the big problem that people with neck pain
often have when their using a laptop
is they put the laptop down low like this,
and what happens to their head?
Just like this.
- The head forward posture--
- That's killer. - Yeah.
So you need to get a separate keyboard,
you put the laptop up in here,
and now you can go ahead and keep good posture
while you're working.
- Right, and it's very easy to get a keyboard
that's wireless nowadays and it's no big cost.
- I think people know that better than we do, Brad--
- Probably, but I just wanted to make sure, Bob.
I'm a little behind.
- So next, another person that needs it
is person with back pain.
- Cause what people don't realize, back pain
is become more of a sitting issue than a lifting issue.
You used to always be, remember years ago it was like,
"What did you lift wrong?"
- And now it's you've been sitting in poor posture
all day long, slouched down, so I take this down here
and you're like this all day long.
That's putting stress on your back.
- So this is ideally designed for somebody with back pain
because every so often you can take it up
and you can actually,
oh actually I got it up as high as it should go,
you can take it up and you can take stress off your back
and you're gonna be in good posture.
- So I would say those number one and number two
are probably the number two people
that should get a desk like this.
- Sure, yeah you need to be sitting at a desk for a while
to make it, obviously, something you want to purchase.
- Right, exactly, 'cause again, these are very nice.
Number three: if you're diabetic.
So research has shown that prolong sitting
is correlated with high blood sugar,
excessive body fat around the waist,
which is associated with diabetes.
- Not only do you want to stand up every so often,
but you also want to move,
you know make it a point of every hour,
every half hour really,
to get a couple minutes of movement in too.
- Right, go for a walk. - Go for a walk.
Or go get a drink. - Yup.
And your productivity will go up
because you're gonna be more focused
when you are at the job. - Oh right.
When you get those drowsy spell episode,
it's like you need to get moving,
get the circulation going or change the height of the desk--
- There's slapping, I just slapped my mike! (laughs)
- Oh that hurt Liz's ears!
- All right number four would be somebody
with cardiovascular problems.
So research has linked prolonged sitting
with increased blood pressure,
and increased risk from cardiovascular disease.
- And it really all makes sense.
It's sedentary, if you're sedentary
the body doesn't work as well, and as for sitting,
that's what a lot of our work requires now.
- Now this next one might be a little surprising to you,
but this one is one that I can get sometimes
and that is, you can actually get
what we call neck headaches.
So you get headaches that start back here
and they come up and around.
And that's gonna be the same thing again
where you actually, if you're down here,
and you're got the laptop down here
and I'm gonna be in that forward head neck posture here.
That's putting pressure
on the greater occipital nerve up in here.
- And that's gonna eventually result in a headache.
- 'Cause they'll exit the lower part of the head
and wrap up around,
if you look on the anatomy chart--
- It comes right around.
- You can see exactly how that goes
and it follows that nerve track.
- Even if you're just feeling pain back here
or headaches back here,
it probably is that same thing.
You're getting stress from having a forward head posture.
Those are the five people
that it's gonna help specifically
but to be honest, anybody who wants to be more productive,
I think if you get a stand up desk,
you're gonna be a lot more focused.
- You're gonna break things up
and you're gonna be able to do things better.
- It's one of those things too
that it may feel a little weird at first
because you're in a completely different posture
but once you get used to it
you realize how did I ever work before, stuck in that chair?
- Yeah I kind of have a routine now, with mine at home.
There's periods of the day where I stand completely,
and then there's periods of the day
where I sit more predominantly.
- Sure.
- But it works for me.
- Yeah, you get your pattern.
- All right, remember, Brad and I can fix
just about anything,
- Except for,
- A broken heart.
- But we're working on it.
- There we go.