- Hi, I'm Bob Schrupp, physical therapist.
- And I'm Brad Heineck physical therapist.
- And together we are the most famous
physical therapists on the internet.
- In our opinion, of course!
- Brad, today we're gonna talk about
the Sacro Wedgy. Well, that sounds like,
like something that I got when I was a kid.
- Sacro. Sacro Wedgy.
S-A-C-R-O wedgy down below there.
Nancy's going to put that down there.
- That's really what it's called?
- Yeah. And well, basically the story behind this Brad,
is that apparently an osteopath,
he used to do this treatment to the inventor
where he'd just cradle the sacrum
and I'll show this in a minute, but the sacrum
this is your back, the bones that make up your back
Brad you'd be turned around.
So this is exactly how it lines up
at the bottom of the bones that line up to make your back
there's a triangle shaped bone called the sacrum.
So it's right there.
Yep. And what this guy used to do with his osteopath
he would put his palm in here
and he'd hold onto that sacrum
while the patient was laying down like this
and kind of hold it up.
So it would elevate the sacrum, push it up
and gave him some relief apparently.
- Apparently, that's correct.
- So he went on and invented this device here.
And as you can see from the shape,
it actually does fit right in there over the sacrum
and really quite well.
Now this is a woman's version, the pink
which he made it very simple.
And there's also a blue version, which is for the male
and the female, I think is a little thicker.
I think generally because
women do have a little more of a contour there.
So anyway, what you're going to do is
you're going to put this in place here
and it even elevates it a little more
with the foam here.
Okay?
- Okay.
So you put this in place
and you are going to lay on a hard surface.
You've got to lay out probably on the floor
the bed won't do it.
And you're going to lay on here like this.
And then he does various exercises which come along.
There's a sheet that shows the various exercises
that you can do with this.
Now does this work?
I think what is happening here, Brad
and maybe I'm getting too technical here,
but you're pushing on the sacrum
and you're actually in an essence,
you're extending the back a little bit.
I don't know if that makes sense to you or not.
Maybe I'm getting too much into it.
- If it feels good, you should, you could try it.
- Yeah. Now what I would suggest
and somebody on the internet had suggested this.
I would take up a rolled towel like this.
Just roll up a good, you know, pretty decent towel.
This probably goes up to about
two and a half inches, two inches.
All right.
And I would try this first
Because this actually felt to me
just about the same as this actually felt
even a little bit better to me.
So you start off, you lay on your side
you take the rolled towel.
Again, you go below the belt line here.
This sacrum is right around here
and then I'm going to roll over onto it like this.
- Right
- And now that sacrum is being cradled.
As he referred to and with the knees back,
he talked about like one exercise,
just letting it relax like this.
And then it might even help the piriformis a little bit
which it would help relax the piriformis.
And if you get some stress on there.
If this feels good, you've been laying for five minutes
then maybe you want to go ahead
and order this product and give it a try.
If you get some relief from it.
He also says, before you get off the sacrum,
the sacral wedgy,
you're supposed to do some pelvic tilts.
Which a pelvic tilt is actually,
you're kind of tightening up your muscle.
You can actually lift up here
and then tilt your pelvis forward like this.
- Go down again, Bob.
- Okay.
- So let's pull your shirt up here.
Look at the belt line and when he tightens off,
you're going to see that's as tall
as his tilting in this direction.
That's why they call it a pelvic tilt.
- You're kind of flattening your back.
What we tell people is I put my palm
on the underneath their back or hand
and I want you to squish my hand.
- Sure.
- So you squish my hand. Do five of these,
especially after you've been laying on it for a long time,
do five of these and then you can go ahead
and roll off of it.
Just so that's not too much of a shock to the system
I think from laying on it so long.
I would not do this, absolutely not do this
if you have spondylosis or spondylolisthesis.
You're going to know what these words are if you have them
or spinal stenosis.
- Right.
- Which Brad, by the way has a little spondylosis
I think, or spondylolisthesis here actually.
- Not just a little, it's there, Bob.
- (indistinct)
- But that's not another video
and these should feel comfortable when you're doing this.
It should feel good down, you should feel a relief.
- Right.
- If it hurts, don't get that theory,
no pain, no gain, just work right through the pain,
because it's probably going to get worse when you get off.
- Right. And from the reviews it seemed like it was
pretty mixed that some people really got relief from it
and some people have said, no, it actually made it worse.
Some people were upset because
they got the pink one when they wanted the blue one
and they asked for another pink one
or another blue one and they still got a pink one.
- But that's another story.
- Right.
- All right. Remember Brad, we can't fix a lot of things.
Can we? But we can fix a broken heart.
I've said that wrong.
- No, we can't fix a broken heart.
- We can't fix a broken heart.
- Okay. Which one are we on?
This one?