♪ Bob and Brad ♪
♪ The two most famous ♪
♪ Physical therapists ♪
♪ On the internet ♪
- Howdy, folks!
I'm Bob Schrupp, physical therapist.
- Brad Heineck, physical therapist.
- And together, we are the most famous physical therapists
on the Internet.
- In our opinion, of course, Bob.
- So with the Bob and Brad back pain program, Brad,
we actually are gonna have three levels of commitment.
- Yeah. - You know, the first level,
we're not asking for much.
We're gonna have you try a few things
and see if you have some success with it.
- Sure. - So we'll start with...
What we're trying to do with the level one commitment
is we're trying to reduce your pain.
So it may not be so much what you're doing,
but what you should be doing.
So we'll kind of go over activities that you want to watch
and see if they're causing-
- What they should or shouldn't be?
- They should not be doing? - They should not be doing.
- Right. Okay, I get it.
- So we wanna find out what things are pain-makers.
- Right.
- We came up with a term, Brad.
- Oh. That was a long time ago.
- Yeah. A pain maker is an action, a position, or a thing
that causes pain.
The pain could be in your back or could be referred.
You wanna talk about referred pain, Brad?
- Right. Oftentimes you feel the pain into the buttock,
the hip, or down the leg,
and the source of the pain, the origin,
is actually in the low back.
And that's just the way the body works.
- So let's start off.
If you perform a task and feel pain,
let's say you you roll out of the bed, Brad,
right away, the first thing in the morning,
you wanna get outta bed. - Yep.
- You roll, and that hurts. - Oh, I've had that happen.
- That's the pain-maker.
So you gotta stay in bed all day is what you-
No, we'll show you some ways
to get around some of this stuff.
Either you gotta stop doing it or you got to modify it.
- Right. Because once you get control of your pain,
and you can control it to a certain degree,
- Right. - it makes a big difference
on how it's gonna progress and how you feel about things.
- Yeah. We'll talk about this in some of the other videos,
but it makes your nerves sensitive.
- Mm-hmm. - The more pain you get,
it's not like the stronger you get.
It's like the worse you get.
Sure. You become more sensitive to the pain.
So the second part of this level one is
you wanna try some of the pain management tools
from the Bob and Brad toolbox.
So the toolbox is kind of a guide
of some things that might help manage your pain,
like ice or TENS unit or infrared.
- Postural positions. - Yep.
- Some specific exercise.
- Well, that goes into the other part of the toolbox.
- Oh, that's number two?
- That, no, that's a number three, another toolbox.
- Oh, okay, another.
Okay, I'm sorry.
- Exercise and stretches.
And some of those might help right away.
And some of 'em might take a while to help.
Right, Brad?
- Sure, I mean, you gotta do 'em for a while.
- So again, the whole thing is if we reduce the pain-makers,
we're trying to reduce the sensitivity
of your nerves. - Sure.
- So it's kind of a cascade effect.
Like if you increase the pain from your pain-makers,
the nerves become more sensitive.
- Right. - And if you decrease the pain
from the pain makers, your nerves are... yeah.
- Settles down. - Yeah.
And a lot of times people are thinking,
"I've got something really seriously wrong with me
"because it hurts so much, and it flares up so easy."
Well, no, it's just your nerves that become sensitive.
- Sure. You bet.
- Check out the rest of our videos in this program.
You can go to Bobandbrad.com.
Go to the program section.
You'll find one on back pain.
We have one on sciatica, too.
And you just watch the ones that you feel pertain to you.
- Yeah. It's like a library of videos
specific for back pain.
Watch the one you want.
And there's a PDF print out for each video
that has a real nice review of the video
with exercises pictured on there as well.
It's a wonderful deal.
- All right, thanks for watching, folks.
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