♪Bob and Brad ♪
♪The two most famous ♪
♪Physical therapists ♪
♪On the internet ♪
- Howdy folks, I'm Bob Schrupp, physical therapist.
- Brad Heineck, physical therapist.
- Together we are the most famous
physical therapists on the internet.
- Well, in our opinion, of course, Bob.
- It's a little demented and sad if we think that way.
Okay. Today we're gonna talk about
ways to get rid of those muscle knots and pain.
They are irritating, Brad.
- What part of the body we talking about?
- We're talking about mainly
the upper traps and shoulders.
- Sure.
- And maybe a little bit to the neck.
- Yep.
- Most of 'em are posture related.
I remember when I was going
to school for physical therapy
a hundred years ago
I mean, I was working and,
you know studying probably like
this the whole time.
And man, I got some severe pain.
- Yeah.
- Holy moly.
- Well, I think we all experience that now
working on your phone, on the computer,
watching TV or whatever.
So we need to get rid of these knots quickly
and these are gonna help your posture as well.
- That's right.
So let's start with,
Brad do you wanna start with the ball?
- You can't go wrong
with the ball, Bob. - Real simple one.
You get yourself a bouncy ball
that's soft and bouncing it
doesn't really help so much,
but you really don't wanna get
a ball like a basketball or a soccer ball.
- No.
- That would be too hard.
You need something squishy.
A kid's ball.
- I like the ball because it's very simple,
I mean, I know you gotta invest a little bit
but we'll show you some things
that you don't have to, - Right.
it won't cost you anything.
- If you got kids or grandkids
you probably have one of these around.
So you take the ball
and you're gonna put it
right about here or up higher.
- You can adjust it.
- Yep.
- To where it feels the best.
- In a firm chair.
This is not going to work
very well at all in a, you know, cushion chair
- Or recliner.
- Recliner, anything like that.
So we just, we go like this and extend
or get the shoulder blades back.
You can go back like this
and stretch do the old hallelujah.
That really feels good.
And then you adjust it.
You'll find out.
- I love this stretch.
- I like mine a little bit lower, sometimes higher,
but it depends on what I'm doing
prior to this and how my posture is.
And if I've been a bad,
bad person and not monitoring it,
like I should.
- All right.
Do you wanna show the giveaway, Brad, now?
Or do you wanna - Oh yeah we should
show it all later?
- Because I am right here.
- So you go to Bob and Brad
and go to the giveaway section.
We're always giving something away.
- Here you go.
- It's always a fantastic device.
And this week we are giving away
the Bob and Brad neck and back massager.
And coincidentally,
you can use this on your upper back and your traps.
- Yeah.
- It worked really well for it.
- So right here, these massagers are rotating
and they're heated, which is nice.
And you can adjust them three different ways.
You know, I was working,
my daughter was home,
you know she's adult
and living out of town.
She came home and she slept wrong
and her neck was tighter than tight.
And I was doing every trick in the book.
It really bothered me. - To get her better?
- Yeah, and if I pulled one of these out
and she was grateful and it worked out well.
She took it home with her actually.
She got it worked out using a massager.
- So, this is better than you.
- Yeah, well, - Better than a dad.
- I'm not very good at massage like that.
So, oh yeah it does work really nice.
You can adjust the arms here.
- It never gets tired.
- What?
- It never gets tired.
- Oh, yeah exactly right. - It will never
turn you down.
- And it does work on the low back as well.
- You do have to plug it in.
- Oh my goodness.
I don't wanna get carried away
but yeah it is a a nice alternative,
but we have some other ones
that you do not have to purchase.
- That you can just, - Nice catch.
use around at home.
- All right next one.
I think it's really cool.
Really clever.
There's a can inside here.
It's a Carnation, instant Carnation.
- Yeah. Carnation instant milk.
I took it from my wife.
- It's this big.
- Yeah.
- So what is that? Five inches, Brad?
- It's a 12 ouncer, I think.
- Okay.
- Yeah.
- And what I like about it, it actually,
if you roll it on your low back,
your mid back or upper back
it'll actually fit between the shoulder blades.
- Yes. So we just took a towel
neatly put it around there.
Take some tape.
I use electrician tape, works great.
Put it on there and look at that.
Go ahead, show them how it works.
- You know that device called a Chirp, Brad?
- Yeah, yeah.
- Looks like a PVC pipe.
- Right.
- So that one is like this, but this is cheaper.
Plus you won't fall off this.
- It's a lot smaller too.
- Right, it's a lot smaller,
a lot more handy.
- This is a really nice,
nice home, home remedy.
- You wanna put it in place, Brad?
- Yeah. I put it right between your shoulder blades.
- There you go.
Now obviously I'd wanna do this on the floor
but I can roll and it'll go
right between the shoulder blades.
And I'll tell ya,
this is a bit of heaven on earth, Brad.
- Yeah. It's amazing what a can of Carnation
and a towel can do for you.
- Yep. And you know,
you can use a can of corn or
- Yeah. Well, the big thing
about this is after you get done working with it
you can go in the kitchen and whip yourself up
some homemade bread.
- Yep. Crack, crack, crack, crack, crack.
- Or whatever you do with it.
- All right, Brad, how about
- Seriously? It's a nice gift.
- You take the ball.
- Got the ball.
- Okay.
- This is a lacrosse ball.
You can use a tennis ball.
It's a little soft.
This is much more firm.
The tennis ball works good in the sack.
- Yeah. Plus you can take the lacrosse ball
and you can cover it up
with the towel also to take some of the edge off.
- Yeah. I'll put it down there.
- [Bob] But now you wanna hit different areas on the back.
You're gonna hit
- [Brad] Oh, right, yeah.
- [Bob] Between the shoulder blades.
And you're gonna hit,
here I'll use this one
here, here, here, here, here, here.
Six spots.
- [Brad] You'll know 'cause it feels good.
- [Bob] Right.
- You know, you'll get on that one tight spot
and it's gonna be a little uncomfortable.
It's gonna be like, it hurts so good.
And the more, the longer you're on it, the better it feels.
- [Bob] I do these every morning.
- Boy, this is aggressive. - Without fail.
- If I had a tennis ball here,
I could probably do it
without the, the towel.
- [Bob] Sure.
- So use what you have and what works
and make adjustments as you need 'em.
- [Bob] So if you wanna put a tennis ball in a sock
and start up against the wall,
this will actually be a little less aggressive
than on the floor
but I can take the ball and then lay it in place.
- [Brad] Yeah.
- And you can roll back and forth like this.
But another thing you can do,
you can actually do stretches.
I can do the wall angels.
Oh.
- [Brad] Oh, come on, Bob, toughen up,
come out of this.
- Toughen up.
- [Brad] You're flying like an angel.
- Trying to keep my elbows against the wall.
It's really tough to do.
- [Brad] Yeah. The higher up you go, the more you feel it.
- Another thing you can do
is the stretch, Brad, of the trap.
- [Brad] Oh yeah. - The upper trap.
So I put this arm below my back,
behind my back and I take this hand
and I gently stretch while I'm doing this.
- [Brad] So you got the pressure on the ball
behind your back - Right.
- [Brad] And this position
and I gotta emphasize
its a gentle stretch on the head.
- Right, right.
- [Brad] Don't get too aggressive.
- And you could do both sides.
Now, one thing that I like to do,
it's a little crazy,
but I actually take a rolled sock.
- [Brad] Yeah.
- And I use it in my car.
- [Brad] I remember.
- Yeah, you know this.
- [Brad] I've seen you use more than a sock.
- Yeah I'll take something
And I put it right in that little upper back
and I actually do some chin tucks while I'm in the car
and it feels really good.
I do it every morning
and it gives me a little treatment on the way to work.
- [Brad] Can you see me here?
- [Man] Little bit.
- This is my better side.
- We don't need to see you.
- [Brad] But yeah, actually that works on that,
that neck hump area.
- Yes, it does.
- You know, it's right in that,
the part of the thoracic spine.
- Why don't we finish off by showing 'em a stretch , Brad.
- Well, sure.
- Now you could do a stretch against a wall.
You can put your elbows.
- [Brad] Oh yeah this is a
- [Bob] and you grab the back of your neck like this
- [Brad] pretty aggressive one.
- [Bob] and you're gonna lean forward like this
and really try to extend the upper back.
- Right in here getting all that.
- Yup.
- So don't pull your head down.
Don't look towards the floor.
Actually, you can try to look up but it's kind of hard.
But it gets your neck and upper. Look at that.
- [Bob] Now, you could do that on a chair,
on a side of a desk.
- [Brad] There we go.
And then you really get some nice leverage like this
and look up a little bit, take a deep breath.
Ah, feeling strong like bull, Bob.
See what that does for me?
- If you have a standing desk,
you can actually raise it up and go like that.
And you won't draw as much attention as that moment.
- You could use that for, do that,
and then have someone push a button.
So it would be going up while you're doing it
for a stretch and then go down.
It'd be like
- There we go. That mechanical mind, it's always thinking.
- It's always an interesting day at our house.
- You keep thinking, Butch.
- My wife continues to be.
- Yeah, I bet she's amazed.
- Yeah. Rolls her eyes.
- What did I do? Who did I marry?
(Brad laughs)
Alright.
- Be careful.
- Yup. Thanks everybody for watching.
- Good posture.
- We appreciate you.