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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 opinion of course.
- Yeah, take myself down a few levels here.
Okay, today we're gonna talk about fix hunchback posture
with a sock.
And it only takes five minutes a day, so.
- It's a wonderful, Bob's invention too.
And really we were just discussing that.
- I invented the sock.
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- All right, hunchback.
We're talking about, you know, when people
start to get that little, almost nodule
or nob at the top,
right at the base of their neck.
And what happens is it just simply--
From poor posture over time,
that bump starts to, you know, the spinous process
starts to get a little more prominent.
- Sure.
- And it sticks out further and further.
- And you know some people called
it the Dowager's hump.
Which we get a lot of comments
on what the Dowager's hump really is.
- Yeah, I think that Dowager's hump
is really down here.
And there's one hump up here,
there's a lot of humps.
- This is gonna help all of them.
- It is, to correct this all, we're gonna do is
we're gonna provide a counterforce
the other direction, give it a stretch.
These bones are held together
by tough ligaments, once they get
tightened down it's difficult to stretch them out
just manually like this.
You need a counterforce.
- Right.
- So, we got a sock here,
we're gonna have you lay on it.
It's gonna give you that counterforce,
and hopefully, over time,
I'm not gonna, this isn't gonna happen in one week even.
- Right.
- Hopefully over the period of a month or two,
you'll start to notice that your posture's
improving and the hump is starting to disappear.
- Right.
So, again, the sock, actually,
there's more that one sock there, Bob.
- That is actually three socks.
- Three pair or three sock?
- Three pair.
- Three--
- So what I'm gonna do is,
I'm gonna take it apart at the end.
- Oh, okay.
- So that you can see.
'Cause I've got this all shaped real nice, Brad.
- Yeah it is.
- So what's nice about this,
a lot of people try to use a tennis ball
and we've even recommended it.
Like a towel over a tennis ball
- Sure.
- This, you can make it any size you want
you can make it any firmness you want.
Some of you are not gonna be able to tolerate much.
- Right.
- You know, Brad and I can a fair amount,
because we have decent posture.
Wouldn't you say?
- And we work with these. - Right.
- I mean with other ones.
We've worked with a tennis ball,
we got the back pad which is another story.
But this is definitely gonna be more comfortable
for a lot of people.
- Right.
So, what you're gonna do just,
what you do a couple of times a day if you can.
- Right.
- And this is a easy thing to do,
so Brad why don't you,
oh you're gonna do it to me?
- Yeah, yeah.
- You're gonna show me where you're gonna place it.
- Right, so you're actually gonna do this
laying on a carpeted floor,
you could use a hard floor, if you wanted to
but first you're gonna put it
right in the center, right there at the base
of the neck, upper part of the back.
And you're gonna lay there
and then we'll show you on the floor.
- [Bob] Yeah.
- And then we're gonna go off to the side
between the spine and the scapula
or the shoulder blade, on this side,
we can do it on this side,
and it's gonna depend on your back
individually and how you feel it should be there.
- You can go up a little higher, a little lower.
- Right.
- You know you just really need to lie down
for like 30 seconds on each section.
You know, it doesn't take that long.
- Is it lie or lay?
- You lie down.
- That's right, I was just testing him.
- I'm glad you did.
Why don't you go ahead?
So you can, listen, you can go four spots if you want,
and each spot, 30 seconds.
That just takes a couple minutes.
You do it twice a day, for less than five minutes a day,
you can start correcting your posture.
And let me tell you, with most people,
this is, if you wanna work on one area to correct posture,
that's it.
You know, if you correct that, Brad,
everything else starts to straighten out.
- Sure, Bob, it's a big one.
- Why don't you go on and lay down, Brad?
- Okay, so I've got the sock this way.
You could put it this way as far as--
- [Bob] Sure.
- It's gonna depend on how it feels.
Like right now, I can tell I need
to move it down a little bit,
it's too high, it's up in my neck a little bit.
Yeah right in the center,
can you give me that towel roll, Bob?
- [Bob] Sure.
- You may need this--
- [Bob] For your head.
- You have a pillow or towel,
so you can rest your head and relax
and you don't tighten up your neck muscles.
And there we go.
- [Bob] See now look what he's doing,
when he's in this position.
He's bringing his arms out
so he's getting a little more of a stretch
and he's stopping those arms from internally rotating
now they are externally rotating.
And while he's in this position,
he's gonna take some nice deep breaths,
you know, that's gonna help work the spine too
and work the rib cage.
And he can also do some chin tucks,
while he's in this position.
- Sure so--
And actually, if you're gonna do chin tucks,
a towel is a little better than a pillow.
- Right. - A firm pillow.
- [Bob] So you see again, he's tucking his chin in
and that's a great thing to do along with this.
So really easy stretch to do.
This is something that anybody can do
and you can go and adjust it.
So now he's gonna go for a different spot.
- I'm going up or down a little bit,
on the left, between the shoulder blade
and the back.
You know this,
you're gonna have to make sure
the sock roll is pretty firm
for a lot of people.
Because if it's too soft,
you'll squish into it.
But Bob, you're gonna talk about that at the end
of the video.
- [Bob] Right, right but I mean
where is this, with you Brad?
I mean is this too firm for you?
- No, it's just about right.
- [Bob] Yeah I thought so,
it was just about right for me.
But, again, I don't think we're typical, Brad.
I think because we work with this so much.
- Well of course we're not typical
we got issues, Bob.
- [Bob] So the cameraman and my cast will laugh about that.
Right Brad, I wanna show also, so do you mind?
- Oh yeah.
- I'm gonna show that I actually,
this is an on-going joke with my family
and even Brad.
I use it in my car also.
I use a sock like this.
Because I'm tall, when I'm driving,
it's really easy for me to go like this.
- Well that car you had 15 years ago,
what was it?
A little Toyota Corolla or something like that.
- That actually had a deep seat.
- Yeah I know, but it still is amazing--
- Maybe you mean the Subaru.
- Yeah the Subaru, could you just imagine.
- So I actually keep a towel-0
Now this isn't gonna work here
because I don't have anything to lean up against.
- Oh, because of this.
- But I lean up right against the sock right here
and I can do chin tucks while I'm in the car.
It's almost like a treatment everyday.
And it really works on my posture.
It's to the point now where I can't be in the car
without something.
Like I'll be in someone else's car
and I'll pull my gloves out or--
- Right.
- A pop can or--
- Right, I remember the first time I saw you do that,
just sticking something back there.
Yeah, I don't know if it was your towel roll
or you just some mushed up glove but I remember that.
- So anyways, so I just took two socks here,
and rolled them up like that.
- Yeah, you must do laundry a lot,
you did a nice job
- Yeah, these are clean.
There's another one.
- Yeah different people roll their socks differently,
this is old style.
- Yeah so I put them together like that.
- Yeah.
- I put them two together like that,
then I just took a sock like this,
then went over the top like this,
and then I opened up one,
you know, went over both of them, like this.
- [Brad] So that one sock is gonna get
a little stretch, stretchy.
- Yeah and then once I got it on, I just shaped it.
- Yeah, yeah, customize it.
- You'll figure it out.
- If you haven't done any socks before,
you might have to ask someone.
- Right, so get your socks.
Look at that, I hit the camera.
- Wow.
- I wonder if you can slow it down,
slow my motion on that.
All right, we can fix just about anything.
- Except for a broken heart.
- There you go.
- But we're working on it.