♪ Bob and Brad ♪
♪ The two most famous ♪
♪ Physical therapists ♪
♪ On the internet ♪
(Bob claps)
- Hi folks, I'm Bob Schrupp, physical therapist.
- Brad Heineck, physical therapist.
- Yeah, and we are the most famous physical therapists
on the internet.
- In our opinion, of course, Bob.
- Today, Brad, we're gonna try to teach you
how to fall without injury.
And this is for the young active people
to all, even up to seniors.
Now, young people fall too, especially on ice.
- Or skateboarding, there's a lot of activity
where falling is a pretty common thing.
- And there actually is a way you can fall
with less likelihood of getting injured.
Am I correct in saying that? - Exactly.
You got it right, Bob.
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And look at this, we are promoting his channel.
This is Alex, he's married too.
Yeah, there we go. - He's always trying
to steal the show. - Yup.
He's married to Liz, our camerawoman,
they have a funny channel, it's called
the Family Product Channel,
and you actually can catch them on Facebook and Instagram
and if you type in Family Product Channel
on YouTube, you'll find it.
- You'll find us, you'll find us.
Yup. - Alright.
- Our life is a big joke, Bob.
Our life is a big joke.
- Alright, Brad, you're running the show here.
- Yeah, actually, falling has been studied for years
and how to fall without injury.
I learned it from martial arts in Aikido,
a Japanese form of martial arts,
and if you take Aikido,
you find that you'll fall all the time
and that's one of the first things they do,
is teach you how to fall properly.
- What does Aikido mean, then?
Does it mean owl?
(Bob snickers)
I don't know.
- Let's get on with the show, Bob.
Anyways, and it's really, the concepts are very simple.
There's nothing magic about it.
- Sure. - It's when you fall,
you want to avoid all your energy in your body
going to one point.
For example, if you fall on your arms
going forward like this, that's kind of an instinct thing,
put your arms out and catch yourself,
and that could be the worst thing you do
because you put all the energy through your wrist,
so you could break your wrist,
- Which often happens. - Your shoulders, yup,
dislocate, rotate, or cuff injuries,
oh, and of course, banging your head.
- Right.
- Same thing with falling sideways or backwards,
and we're gonna go through that.
Alex volunteered, he's gonna demonstrate how you may fall
if you're not aware of the right way to fall,
and then we'll show you the points
where you're gonna get injured.
So, we're gonna go, first falling forward.
- Forward. - We'll just start with that.
- Why am I always the falling one here?
(Bob laughs)
- He's the fall guy, yeah.
- You guys aren't that older.
- You're younger, Alex,
and you are strong like bull. - You're 30 years
younger than us, what are you talking about
if you know what your age is now?
- Osteopetrosis. (Bob snickers)
- So, if you fall forward, go ahead,
the natural instinctive thing to do is reach forward.
Now, he's gonna stop in mid-air,
now you can see right here in the shoulders,
a lot of stress going on,
that's a rotator cuff injury waiting to happen,
dislocation, - [Bob] Well, I'm surprised
he didn't break his wrists the way he did it right now!
- Bob is so, he's always getting nervous about falls.
- I'm always lookin' for a lawsuit too.
(Bob laughs) - [Brad] Right here,
I think it's called a colles fracture.
That's where you break, - [Bob] Around the radius.
- Yup, you can break both bones there,
so you can get up there.
Now, the right way to do this,
instead of putting all your body-weight energy
into those points, we're gonna spread it out
and we're gonna spread it out to the forearms
and the hand and we always slap.
- Alright, interesting. - Yup, all three of these
we're gonna slap.
You don't have to slap, but it seems,
as a good way to teach it, it helps,
it helped me remember a lot to do it properly.
So, I'll do it the way we should do it
and set her out like that, we're gonna fall down and
(Brad's arms slap)
slap like this. - [Bob] Wow!
- [Alex] He was trying to train me on this.
He's well practiced. - [Bob] Wow.
- Yeah, this is one thing-- - This does surprise me.
I mean, this looks hard to do.
- It's really not, and you gotta protect your head
so your head's gonna go up. - Right.
- And you use your arms as a shock absorber versus that.
- Sure. - So it's just down, and,
(Brad's arms slap)
Slap. - [Bob] Wow, yup.
- And it feels fine.
- Nothing's broke right now?
- No.
- Okay.
Alright.
- Call 9-1-1, we're gonna have the whole set going.
Okay, now the second one is a sideways fall,
which is very common as well,
particularly the hip fracture,
and go ahead Alex, you're gonna fall to your side,
and then right there, that's a common thing.
And you can see that shoulder right there
is getting jammed up into the neck,
shoulder problems, the same thing's going on.
- [Bob] Yeah, colles fracture again.
- And then look right here, the point of the hip,
that greater trochanter, is gonna hit.
And that's where you get those fractures,
is something, a fall just like this.
Nice job, Alex.
You okay?
- Wasn't real comfortable on my elbow, but.
- I appreciate ya sacrificing yourself.
- Anything for this channel, I'll do it.
(Bob laughs)
Anything to get my channel out there, I'll do it.
And I remember with motorcycles, I used to motorcycle,
they talked about if you fall on your motorcycle,
you're supposed to spread out
so you're sliding across the pavement
so that you're not digging through your elbow or your back,
you spread it across your whole body
so you don't wear it through.
Same concept with this.
So, if I wanna fall the same way that Alex did,
I'm gonna try and roll a little bit on my leg,
this takes a little bit of practice
and I'm gonna tuck my chin in, protect my head,
and slap out in front of me.
In slow-motion, it's here, boom.
Big slap there, and you can slap with both hands.
It's like you're slapping the ants.
- So, it seemed like you we're kinda,
your leg was hitting here into the thigh first.
- Right, yup.
This does take a little bit of practice, so.
- Tell Marcus, when you do the editing on this video,
to show some of these in slow-motion.
- That's what I said!
(All three agree)
- Okay, so I'll do it again
so it's a little faster falling, it's
(Brad's arms slap)
there like that, and there's obviously no pain,
you feel the slap on your arm.
Head is tucked in, there's no way
to have the same fracture points.
- Sure.
- So, you're not gonna practice these,
particularly if you're an older person.
Younger people can go out in the yard and practice it,
but the big thing is chin tucked in and reach out and slap,
don't reach out and protect yourself
with the palm of your hand.
And the last one is falling backwards.
Go ahead, Alex.
- You're gonna let him do this?
- Oh gosh, he-- - This one, I'm even a little
nervous a little bit. - Now, this one,
go ahead and we'll stop.
- [Bob] Oof.
- [Brad] Did you, could you feel the compression
to the spine? - Yeah, but also I'm worried
that he'd probably keep going and slap his head.
- Yup. - You know what I mean?
- Right. - Yeah, and hit his head.
- Boom, exactly.
So, that's why the big thing is when your butt hits,
if you fall in that seated position and you don't go back,
there's a tremendous amount of force
going through your spine. - Right.
- In the elderly, compression fractures are very common
from this type of thing. - Absolutely,
I've seen many of this. - Yup.
And then we've got the same situation
with the extended arm and shoulder,
and like Bob said, if you go all the way back,
go ahead, Alex, and the head snaps back
and making a good concussion recipe right there.
- Right, and you'll probably hear air leaking out, Alex.
- Couple years ago, I fell on ice, right on my back.
Just like that. - Oh, did ya?
- And it happened just like that.
- Did you hit your head?
- No, I didn't hit my head, but my back, I had a sore back.
- I mean, to be honest, Brad, my thoughts are that
you protect the head at all costs.
- Right, and with this one, like the other ones,
you tuck the chin in. - Yeah.
- If you're going back, the first thing you do,
you got me there?
The chin's tucked in, we're gonna keep it tucked in
the whole way, and we wanna avoid that banging on your butt.
Now, this is one that you pretty much
have to practice or keep in mind if you're gonna fall.
If you're able, younger people can practice,
again, like I said, but it really helps
to get one foot back and then roll back and slap.
My head's in, and I'm gonna slap with both hands.
In Aikido, what I was taught,
from here you should be able to get back up like this
and ready to defend yourself, but, again,
I'll demonstrate that again.
Going backwards, gonna twist a little bit,
bring a foot back, and maybe if he does this in slow-motion,
our editior, it's here and boom, end like that.
- Yeah, I could see now, as you start
to feel like you're going, you can get that,
'cause you, that's probably one of the first things
you're gonna do, is try to put that foot back
to try to catch your-- - Sure, right.
- So, if you put it back and then
if you just keep going, you're gonna roll.
- But tuck in that chin, it helps get that rounded position,
and then you're actually reaching forward before you slap
and the thing is it's kind of a weird sensation,
but it works, and that's why it's been doing it
for, in Aikido, for hundreds or, I don't know how many years
that's been going on, maybe thousands.
- But again, I wanna reemphasize, Brad, I mean,
injuries like bones, you can repair those,
but if you get a subdural hematoma,
you could have brain injury that is not repairable.
- Right, any head injury can be major.
- Protect the head at, like I said, the chin tuck.
If you don't remember anything else,
even just the chin tuck - Right.
Precisely.
- It's probably worth the price of this video,
which is, what, how much?
This is valuable, right?
- This isn't valuable information, folks.
(Bob laughs)
- And for the younger crowd, Bob had talked,
he thought we were gonna do a lot of rolling,
which is also a big component of how to fall,
but I left that out because that's--
- Just too hard to teach.
Right, that's not gonna happen with the elderly
and this applies to both active or older people.
- Sure. - But the rolling,
maybe we'll do another video on rolling.
- I bet you just couldn't wait, could ya.
(Brad laughs)
Thanks for watching.