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- Hi, folks, I'm Bob Schrupp, physical therapist.
- Brad Heineck, physical therapist.
- And we are the most famous
physical therapists on the internet.
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- That's easy for you to say.
Today, Brad, we're actually gonna do an interesting one.
It's called the horns on your skull
caused by your cellphone and how to stop it.
That's intriguing, isn't it?
- Yeah.
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- And we're also giving the iReliev roll-on.
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- No, it's not. - It won't work there,
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- You've been using it on your back, I hear.
- Yes, I did.
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- Alright, very good.
Okay, so what are we talkin' about here, Brad,
horns on your skull?
What we're talkin' about here
is actually a bone spur
that can occur on the back of your skull.
And this, we kind of created one here.
So we got Napoleon Bone-aparte here,
we took his head off.
And you can actually see
the little bone spur comin' out.
That's probably a fairly large one.
- Sure.
- [Bob] There's probably a lot smaller ones.
- But you said you saw x-rays
and it looked about--
- [Bob] It looked very similar
to that, yes. - Okay, very good.
- Now the thing is,
why this is not surprising to us,
is 'cause you can get bone spurs in your shoulder,
you get bone spurs in your back,
you can get bone spurs on your heel.
- Right. - So why couldn't you
get bone spurs on your skull?
- Right, because all's we need, typically,
is a ligament or a tendon
that attaches to a bone,
overstress it, calcium deposits form,
and it causes, it creates a bone over time.
- And we'll show you how,
what ligament causes that on the skull.
- There you go.
- So this is based on research.
It was from the University of Sunshine Coast.
What a name, right?
- I'd like to visit.
- Yeah this is in Australia.
You probably want to go to Australia,
don't ya? - I do.
- It's in Queensland and they did 1200 x-rays,
one thousand two hundred.
- On one person?
- No, on many people. - Oh good.
- They did it on a wide variety of ages.
And one-third, Brad,
one-third, that'd be 400,
showed bone spurs.
- At this location.
- At that location.
And it actually, the frequency decreased with age.
It was more in the younger people
that had it. - Sure.
- Isn't that a little frightening?
- Well it kinda makes sense on,
as we go into research this.
- Yeah, we're gonna talk about this.
So, okay, first off,
where does this occur?
It occurs right at the back, and actually,
if you wanna tell right now
whether or not you have one,
You can feel on anybody here, you can actually,
there's a bump on the back.
It's the external protuberance there,
occipital protuberance.
- [Brad] Right.
- So yep, it's kind of a--
- [Brad] Right where my finger is.
- [Bob] Yeah, the first bump
you're gonna feel right back here.
- And that's normal.
- And that's normal to have the bump there
but run your finger down
a little bit down towards your neck.
- [Brad] Oooh.
- Now if you start to feel the bone continues
and forms something like this,
then you probably have a little bone spur.
But not to worry.
That's not really gonna
give you any problems or any pain.
- I guess if it was large enough and you extend it up
and it started to physically bump into something,
then it might be painful
or uncomfortable. - It could.
It's like heel spurs,
a lot of heel spurs don't give you pain, either.
- Right, right.
- But why does this, this bone spur occur?
So we've got Sam our other skeleton here.
And this is a great demonstration here
because attached to that bony protuberance there,
is a ligament.
It's called a ligament, ligamentum nuchae.
I always remember that from,
from college and from PT school because--
- Sure.
- It was a interesting name to me.
But that ligamentum nuchae attaches to that bone
and then it attaches to the bony bumps
on the back of your neck
all the way down to C7.
- Those are the spinous processes.
And it looks similar to this.
It's really wide
but it's very narrow this way.
- Right, probably not blue.
- It's probably not blue.
But what happens is,
every time you bend your neck forward,
you can see that stretching, don't you (mumbles).
- Yeah, so right here.
You can see this tape, this flexible tape,
and it's literally stretching
and that's what happens when you bend forward.
For example, to look at your cell phone.
- Right.
- We're lookin' like this,
stretching that particular ligament out
causing stress on that bone.
- Right.
- Causing the calcium deposits to form,
causing bone spurs (grunts).
- Ergo, bone spurs.
So this doesn't happen overnight.
- Right.
- This is generally from prolonged posture.
- Sure. - So you have your head down
for a long time.
It could also be a laptop.
- Sure.
- If your head down.
So, I mean,
and again,
the bone spur generally is not a problem in itself.
But the other things that are going on
could be a huge problem on your neck.
With your neck down like this all the time,
now you can start to get some deterioration
in the neck, itself.
And you could get, what do you call it?
Degenerative disc disease.
- So the discs between the vertebrae
are starting to fail or break down.
- Right.
So this is, you know,
we talked again about how posture,
where every inch your head is forward
that puts 10 pounds more stress on your neck.
So if you're way forward like this--
- Right.
- You've probably got about 40 more,
40 or 50 more pounds of stress
on your neck. - Sure, yep.
- And so, how do we get away from this?
Very simple.
Don't look down on your phone like this.
Brad's gonna show you.
Bring your phone up to you,
we call it Tyrannosaurus Rex arms.
You have short little arms,
bring it up to you and watch your,
look at your phone that way.
- Or, you know, the other thing you can do
is kind of compensate with your eyes.
Instead of looking down with your head,
look down with your eyes.
And you can do this.
It's a little bit harder
if you got bifocals, of course.
But with healthy eyes,
and that's a habitual change.
And it's not gonna be easy.
- Yeah.
- But I'm thinkin'
they're probably gonna make a device,
a harness that goes around the neck
and you put the cell phone there and you go,
and you could just walk well
with this thing bobbling around.
- Well, Brad, I think
they tried it with glasses, you know.
They had the Google light glasses.
- Yeah. - Where you could,
you could see things on there.
I think that's,
or they'll probably implant something in our eyes
is what they'll do. - Yeah, oh I see, yeah.
One way or another it'll get taken care of.
- But the thing is, you know,
it's also what we talk about with laptops.
You don't wanna have your head down like this
with laptops either. - Yeah.
- Down like this for long periods of time.
I think that may often be the culprit
more than anything. - And we've got some videos
comin' up on some really nice ways to alleviate that,
particularly people at work or at home, so.
- So, basically-- - Oh.
- Get rid of the horns, Brad, right?
- Why, Bob, why?
That's exactly what I'm talkin' about.
- Alright thanks for watchin'.
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