- Hi, I'm Bob Schrupp, physical therapist.
- Brad Heineck, physical therapist.
- And together we are, we were just telling a private joke.
And together we are the most famous physical therapists
on the internet.
- Oh, in our opinion, of course, Bob.
- Brad, if you, and I know you've watched this already.
And so have I, if you've watched our video
on how to do,
or when you should do nerve flossing
you may have been led to this video.
So if you haven't watched that video already,
it kind of gives you hints
on when to do nerve flossing
for the arms or for the leg.
- Right.
- And for the leg, quite often.
And I'll put it right there.
- Cover my face.
- Yep. For the leg it's the sciatic nerve.
The sciatic nerve, largest nerve in the,
in the body, actually.
Goes down the back of the leg.
If you're getting symptoms down the back of your leg,
into the calf, into the top of the foot
or the bottom of the foot,
that may be your sciatic nerve.
You may get numbness, pain, tingling.
Those weird sensations.
- Mhmm, right.
So we're gonna show you how to do flossing
of the sciatic nerve.
Now it's very easy.
This is a very easy exercise to do.
You're gonna wanna sit on a chair
where, actually, Brad,
I can't see very well here,
but you wanna sit
on a chair where you actually have
are free to swing the leg if you can, Brad.
- Oh, sure.
Well, maybe we can do,
this would be an example of-
- I'm gonna,
go ahead and just go down a little bit, Brad.
So you can, we can see.
- There we go.
- [Bob] Okay.
- Good. Now this, I come down
and my foot's actually hitting the floor.
So I would preferably want to be
up a little higher.
- [Bob] Yeah, a little higher. Yeah.
- So we can get this motion without that.
- [Bob] All right. Why don't we
get back up on the bench, Brad?
- Okay.
- [Bob] We can do it on the bench.
- [Brad] Oh, wait.
- [Bob] 'Cause I'll just keep it down like this.
All right. So what you're gonna wanna do
is you're gonna start, and we're,
I'm gonna do the forward view,
and Brad's gonna do the side view.
Can we do the right leg, Brad?
Or you want the left leg?
- [Brad] Right.
- [Bob] Right leg.
- [Brad] Correct.
- [Bob] Okay. Correct. All right.
So when you bring the toe up
you're also gonna bring your head up.
That doesn't work, Brad.
We can't see our head.
- [Brad] Let's do the toe first.
- [Bob] All right.
We'll show you that first.
So you bring the toe up
and then you stretch your foot up.
You're, you're showing it, Brad?
- [Brad] Right. Bringing the toe up.
- [Bob] Yep. And that actually is
the way I really want you just to start,
just doing this.
And again, this nerve is very sensitive,
so you don't wanna get it too fired up.
I'd like to just see you do 10 repetitions the first day.
And then the second day you could start this
this next component to it.
Brad's got something here going on.
He's gonna get some tape.
He's running in here.
So on the second day,
you're actually gonna be moving your head for also,
and I'm gonna have Brad,
I'm gonna go ahead and move the camera up
so we can watch him.
Brad, you need to get back in here, buddy.
- [Brad] Hold on. The problem is, Bob,
is because there was a dark-
- [Bob] Brad, there's dead air time here.
- [Brad] They'll wait. They'll wait, Bob.
This is important.
They couldn't see my foot dorsiflex because that curtain.
- [Bob] All right. All right, ready?
- Yep.
- [Bob] Now show how
you're gonna go toe up
and head up at the same time.
- Toe up, head up there.
- [Bob] Yeah. And then down, and head down.
Toe up, head up.
Toe down, head down. 10 of those.
- Good. And see what I'm looking at is
they can see that my foot is pulling up this way.
That's important.
- [Bob] Right.
And down. That's the flossing.
We want you to do 10 repetitions of that.
And that skeleton looks
like he's a little afraid
that Brad may nail him.
(Brad laughing)
But very good.
And what you're looking,
gonna look for is after, you know,
a few days of doing this is decreased symptoms.
- Yeah. I can feel that stretch.
It's just not in my calves.
It's definitely a little more than that.
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