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- Hi, I'm Bob Schrupp, physical therapist.
- And I'm Brad Heineck, physical therapist.
- And together we are the most famous physical therapist
on the internet.
- In our opinion of course. - Yeah.
We're quite a fashion statement.
- Goes well with the Garcia tie.
- Yeah. - Can we say yeah,
Here, maybe I'll let you know. - No, no.
Let's take a, well
obviously what we're
on the subject right now is back supports
or a back brace brace, small back brace.
- These are a little bit controversial.
Won't you say Brad?
All of the studies have shown
that they really have not helped.
And I think part of the reason
behind that is maybe for the fact maybe how they're used.
I, when we have people suggest, how do people use these?
We have them, there's actually two Velcro cinches.
Would you call it that?
- Right.
Well, on this support, anyways, this is nice one.
I like these a lot.
- This is the type I would get, actually.
- Sure.
- And so it has one where you just, and
and what I do is have people just keep it lightly together
like this.
So it's just, cuss if you cinch it up too much
now the muscles of your back and stomach
and abdomen don't have to work and they can become weakened.
- Right? The, the back support - Is doing the work is
- That core muscle that people talk about core
of being supported by this, not your muscle, right?
- And throughout today, I want your back muscles working.
I want your abdominal muscles working,
but when you're gonna do a lift,
I, I want you to have extra support.
- Right?
- So in that case, you know
you have this already lightly attached or lightly cinched.
You can take these extra straps.
I don't know if you can even see these.
- Yeah, right, right here.
But go ahead and pull forward.
- So you pull it forward like this.
- And they're elastic big, wide elastic band.
- Now it's cinched up.
And now I have some support.
- Right?
- And I don't think this is any different
than a weightlifter.
You see weightlifters who wear the belts.
- Yep.
- You know, cinch it up.
There's a reason they're wearing their those belts
to support their back.
So this is a good reminder
and a good support when you're gonna do a lift
to protect the back.
- Sure.
- Cause the last thing we want you doing is lifting
like this with your rounded back.
We want you to keep the back straight.
This is a good reminder to do just that.
- Right.
- I got a runny nose.
- I noticed that Bob, stay away.
Are you getting sick?
- No. I'm not sick, Brad. I'm not sick.
- What about these?
- Oh, well they just help keep it in place. Right?
- Well actually there's another reason for those Bob.
They, they help keep it in place
but even more important when you've bend forward.
I want you to feel
you feel those tug on your shoulders a little bit.
- I bet you if they're tight enough, they are.
- Yeah.
- When you feel that that's
- You're lifting wrong.
- Yep. It's a tactile, it's a something you can feel.
- If I go like this versus like this.
- Right.
- Now, I don't feel it.
- Right. So
- If I go like rounded.
I feel 'em.
- It's feedback, bio feedback.
It, it is really source
of biofeedback to let you know you're doing poor mechanics.
- You know the other reason I like these Brad?
- No.
- I'm gonna tell you.
- No. Let me sit down. - Seriously.
One of the reasons I like this
is when you hurt your back people can't see it.
And that's one of the big problems
with when you hurt your back.
And so it's not like when you hurt your arm
or break your arm
you got a cast and everybody gets all the sympathy.
- Sure.
- If you got one of these on people know you have back pain
maybe they're not gonna ask you to lift something heavy.
It's it's a reminder, not only to yourself
but it's the people around you
that, Hey, I am hurting.
- Right.
- And, and you know, please, you know
don't be asking me to do things I shouldn't be doing.
- And if you're a man, you're pretty much gotta say I'm
you know what I say, Hey, I'm not gonna help.
- Right.
- You say I got back pain, like, oh sure.
But if you're wearing that it's clearly
- People are gonna maybe stay away from you.
And that's one of the biggest things we've tried
to teach our patients is how to say no when have back pain.
- That's one of my biggest things to say no is when
I'm working with someone.
- It's, it is hard to say
- But you gotta do it.
Do you know how much machines run bad?
I, I, I would be guessing to be honest with you.
I've seen him in the twenties.
- Yeah. - Thirties.
- Yeah.
- Be in forties. Even I imagine.
- Cause I have something to say
I have with patients and we bought at that facility
we bought a number of 'em.
So the price is a little old in, but the strap adjust.
Yeah. To get a, you know, get a good one.
The, the dual Velcro around the waist, where you can
like Bob says strap it.
And then when you lift, you give it the cinch.
So you feel some good support,
but you don't wanna be walking around like
that all the time.
- No. You want to keep it loose.
I mean, you could, in theory even walk around like this.
- And I've seen people like at Home Depot, I've seen people.
I think they did a study on it a number of years ago.
And they found out
that they actually were decreased their rate
of back injuries for whatever reason.
- So I certainly wouldn't hesitate to wear one.
- No, no.
Get a good one.
- All right. Thanks a lot.