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- Hi folks, I'm Bob Schrupp, physical therapist.
- Brad Heineck, physical therapist.
- Together we are the most famous physical therapists
on the internet.
- In our opinion, of course, Bob.
- I think we should be sitting here
smoking cigars and drinking whiskey.
- Well it's a family show, Bob.
- All right.
Today we're going to be talking about, warning,
stiff neck- (Brad groans)
from driving newer cars.
We're going to show an easy 30 second fix
for developing the stiff neck with new cars.
- So, you don't develop a stiff neck with a new car.
- Right.
- Oh, before we go on-
- We changed the title Mike.
(Brad laughs)
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but you can't.
- Right.
So if you're listening to this in a car,
it'll be a double bonus because what we're finding out,
Bob, now, as therapists for the last 30 years,
we both know that as we age, get over 50's, 60's,
particularly in our 60's and 70's,
our necks become tighter.
Anytime I check range of motion on somebody in their 70's,
I'll say, "Look to your right and look to your left",
and it's very, very rare
that someone at that age
can go chin over shoulder.
It's amazing how people,
I would say they lose probably 25 to 50%
of their range of motion.
- You don't, it's very simple.
You don't use it, you lose it.
- Exactly.
- I mean you've got to keep the joints moving,
which means you got to do some stretching,
and the newer cars-
- Nowadays, with newer cars,
they're outstanding for safety,
they have a nice rear view camera for backup,
which, I love!
- I do, too.
- They have the rear sensors, all the sensors-
- Yeah, that beep. - all over the car, right?
Which are safe, they're wonderful,
but, all of a sudden,
you find yourself not looking around-
- Right. - And ranging your neck out,
right and left, which is not good for your neck.
'Cause you're gonna tighten up,
instead of wait until you're in your 70's,
by the time you're 50 to 55 years old,
whatever it may be,
you're gonna lose range of motion in your neck,
you're gonna lose it,
and you'll thoracic back,
which is going to start creating pain,
and other problems as well.
God bless the new cars into that technology.
30 seconds of stretching to help your body over the time.
- Exactly. It's one of those things where, you know,
your body realized in the fact that you're going to do this
throughout the day and before you were doing it, you know,
a couple times every time you drive your car,
and now you're not doing it at all.
- And you know, who knows,
maybe there's going to be a malfunction
with your video camera or the sensors.
So, we're going to show you, you know,
he can look anyways.
And then while you're doing that,
get in the car over one side, take one hand,
obviously without the car, you know, moving
and give little over pressure up and relax.
Make sure you're sitting up tall in your car seat.
Posture, posture, posture. - You can go like this
too Brad if you want
- Yep. Absolutely.
- Put a counter pressure on the back of the neck,
the back of the head, if you want.
- Now, if you've got the personality,
you think a little is good. A lot is a lot better.
Don't do that. Gentle range of motion should feel good.
No pain whatsoever.
- I think you really want to make sure you're
in good posture when your doing this.
Don't go like this and then work on it really straight
up and then work on it.
- And make sure you go both directions.
So, you go do the neck and also-
- I am tighter reaching to my left.
- Yeah and you'll find
that one way is typically more tight than
the other.
Work that one a little more.
So, that's the neck also do the shoulders.
Now this doesn't work so well in a car.
Unless you have some handles or arm rests
that you can grab on,
but a chair like this,
I'm going to go here and go here and rotate.
And we're going to get the neck
along with the thoracic spine.
- My back just cracked - Oh yeah.
- So, same with this.
I don't want you to round it out at all.
I want you really straight and then turn
- And here.
Now there is one step even better for the back,
in my opinion of course, Bob
. But I think you may agree,
but you'll have to move over.
- Oh, sure.
- If you take, we're going to use a booyah stick,
you need something that's, you know,
got some strength to it.
And four to five feet long.
And I used to do this with patients
because what it does is it forces good shoulder
and head posture.
You're gonna keep your chin tucked in.
And then your pelvis is locked on a chair.
You're not going to do this in the car
like I mentioned in your house where you have some room
and this really lacks in the shoulders
and the pelvis,
and then you do your rotation.
And if it feels good,
you can bounce into it a little bit.
As long as it all feels good,
it's completely pain free and go both directions.
Could you tell Bob am I tighter one way than the other?
- Do it gain, Brad.
- Okay. So, here I'm looking straight ahead.
I feel like I got a little more to the right.
It's hard to say.
- Yeah, it's hard to say.
- But, you know,
you can feel the difference when you do this versus-
- You can use a broom handle or PVC pipe,
or booyah stick, but you know,
the other alternative would be-
- There you go.
- Put your arms like this fist into an open hand
and work like this
same thing,
you can kind of give yourself a little over pressure.
Not as good as this, but yeah, it works in a pinch.
- Yep. Yeah.
Was that a pun on words? Pinch?
- No, I dunno.
- I guess it was an old saying.
- Wow that was a fast video Bob.
One way or another-
- I thought you were gonna do the other position, too.
- Oh, yeah. - Don't forget
your chin tucks here.
- The W's and the chin tuck.
Where was my mind going?
Anyways, so here now these you can do in the car.
Well, not the W's so much, but chin tucks.
Now I do these-
- All the time.
- It's kind of a habit thing, I'm driving down the road.
I'm doing my chin tucks.
People looking at me as their passing by,
- What's with the guy who looks like a chicken clucking?
- Chickens go out like this.
We're doing the opposite.
- We're going back, yeah.
- And you'll do three to five of those at a time.
And doing every half hour,
especially on a long drive.
And then the W's obviously not while you're driving,
you can do this. You know.
- If you're a passenger.
- Well, as long as you stick one arm out the window,
- Don't hit the driver.
- Yeah, exactly the backseat.
But here, it's here.
Shoulder blades together,
squeeze and the chin tuck goes along with it.
Chest out, shoulders back, one and two.
I'm feeling taller already, Bob.
You can breathe.
You can just tell how much better you can breathe
when you do this,
because it opens that chest up
- Yeah, opens your chest up, right.
- Wakes you up.
All right.
- There you go.
- Did I miss any?
- Keep things moving.
And you'll be very happy with us
when you hit your seventies.
- Oh, absolutely.
Cause you're gonna breathe better.
Shoulders are gonna work better.
Necks going to feel better.
Overall, we've countered the technology
of the new cars.
- You know what's funny, Brad,
I already have better motion just from the past
of having to look back.
This is how I looked back in my car
and this way I didn't.
Look at that. I'm tight that way.
- Cause you didn't look over your left shoulder.
- I always used to look way back over my right.
- Right. Yeah. It's very clear.
- I can feel it's different.
I got to listen to our own advice.
- Practice what you preach.
- Yeah.
- Well, who knows, you know?
But, yeah and you could do a little,
we could, we won't do it here,
but there's a towel stretch
that would even help out with that.
But that's another video.
So, very good. Once again,
we continue to strive out and continue to help heal
everything except for-
- A broken heart.
We can fix just about anything except the broken heart.
- Well, I thought I'd give it a little differential.
But we're working on it. We'll continue to do so.
And we really hope everything goes well with you.
And be careful while you drive.