♪ Bob and Brad ♪
♪ The two most famous ♪
♪ Physical therapists ♪
♪ On the internet ♪
- 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.
- Today we are going to talk about how a three dollar ball
can fix your rounded shoulders and poor posture.
- Say no more, Bob.
- I won't.
(Brad laughs)
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- You hear it vibratin', Mike?
Oh yeah. - All right.
- Okay
- So we're going to set a record today, Brad.
We're gonna do such a short video.
So I'm just gonna tell a quick story.
I had a girl that used to work for me and she went on
and became a school teacher.
- Sure.
- And she came in one day and she goes,
"I'm having terrible pain."
- Lindsey?
- No. - Oh. (laughs)
- I don't think you know her, but anyways.
She was having terrible pain, and I come to find out
that she had been using a laptop a lot.
And she's showing the really poor posture.
(Brad groans)
So all I did is I showed her this one exercise
using a three dollar ball that you can get
at any big box store.
And she came to me, like a month later and said,
"It's completely gone."
She goes, "It was like a miracle."
- What'd she do, take some Tylenol?
- No, no, she used the three dollar ball.
- (laughs) Well let's show 'em, yeah.
- All right.
- Yeah, this is really a good, simple exercise.
- And by the way it was invented by Mike,
- Oh, that's right. - The cameraman.
- That's right, yeah.
- We gotta give credit where credit is due.
- That's right, too bad we can't see you, Mike.
- Too bad we can't call it the Mike ball treatment
or something.
- So it's actually about a eight inch,
six or eight inch ball,
and it's nice to have it, it's a little bit flat.
Actually works better than a hard one.
So put it right there.
- It doesn't have to be flat though.
- No, I think it works better though.
- All right, well.
- You can kind of soak into it a little bit.
- Now look at this, what he's doing here.
He's not only stretching the shoulders,
but he's also stretching the mid-back,
and that's where we tend to round out.
The thing that's nice about the ball,
is that it can be moved up and down,
and you can get different positions.
(Brad sighs)
So you can get different spots.
You can move it up high, you can move it down lower.
And it's very simple that you can just keep it by your desk,
or by your chair.
And that's the other thing I like about it, Brad.
It's a reminder.
- Right, right. - It's a visual reminder
that you need to correct your posture.
- And it's a little talking point, people walk by and say,
"What you got the ball there for?"
And it'll spread throughout the whole office.
- That's right.
But the other thing about this is,
I would do it quite often.
- Right.
- I would do it, - Every hour at least.
- Every hour at least.
- But don't spend 20 minutes with it.
You gotta get some work done.
- Right, right.
- You only need 30 seconds or so.
- A 30-second stretch and you're good to go again,
and it's already correcting things.
- Right, and it's gonna help wake you up,
if you're getting that drowsiness,
in that two o'clock in the afternoon.
Little stretch here, open the lungs up, stretch out.
You're ready to go.
- You're all good.
And remember we can fix just about anything.
- Except for,
- A broken heart.
- But we're workin' on it.
- That's right, we'll get there.
- This may be part of the solution,
be in the third chapter, perhaps.
- I don't know, I don't think so.
(quirky music)