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- Hi folks, I'm Bob Schrupp, physical therapist.
- Brad Heineck, physical therapist.
- We are the most famous physical therapists
on the internet.
- In our opinion, of course, Bob.
- Today we're gonna discuss how to overcome
seasonal affective disorder, SAD,
which is kind of an appropriate name for it,
and instead, by happy by Bob and Brad.
- You better believe it, Bob!
We've got the recipe.
- Yeah, we're gonna pump you up, right, get you going?
- Oh, Bob, it's more than that, Bob.
We're gonna rock this boat!
- All right, wow.
- See, I'm telling you, Bob, I'm telling you,
I'm excited! - You've got it going.
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- So what right now we're giving away this by OPTP,
Orthopedic Physical Therapy--
- It's the name of a company that sells--
- But anyway, they're doing Treat Your Own Neck
by Robin McKenzie, and this is a cervical roll,
the original McKenzie cervical roll,
which you can use to help support your neck
while you're sleeping.
We're giving this away as a pair.
We're giving away five sets.
- This is a great book for the layperson, for the patient.
We give 'em out, and they're just a well-written book
for anybody who has neck pain.
- I think it's a great giveaway.
- Self-treat, you better believe it, Bob.
- If I don't say so myself.
All right, Brad, so what's going on here?
- Well, Bob, this morning, you know, wintertime now,
we got 24 inches of snow in the month of February,
it's cold, the year 2019.
- A record in our area.
- Yeah, yeah, it's a tough winter.
- It has been a tough winter.
- But you know, Bob, we're from Minnesota and Wisconsin.
You just gotta be tougher.
- That's right.
- But it still gets to be, it gets to be a grind,
and this doctor talked about how the short days,
the cold weather, the cabin fever symptoms
really can take its toll on people.
- I've found personally, Brad, that every year,
it hits me around March.
This year now it's hitting me already,
and here we are in February.
I mean, it's just been a tough winter.
It is helping that the sun's out today.
- Yeah, it is, it's helpful that way.
We've had a lot of snow days,
and it's just a tough time of year psychologically,
but you can get yourself through this.
- You can get your mind right.
- Right, yep, it's really from the neck up.
- It is.
- And so, this is our self-improvement series.
- All right, here we go, let's get rolling.
- Now, these are things you must avoid,
you know, if possible.
Number one, you gotta quit watching the news.
- My wife, it just drives her crazy,
but I do not wanna watch the news.
And it's not that I don't see the news,
'cause I can catch it online
or I can catch it in the newspaper,
but I can avoid the negative stories.
- Which is most of 'em.
- Which is most of 'em, and it brings you down.
I'll be up in the morning,
my wife turns on the news,
and I'll just kinda wander around,
I'm not watching it,
and the first story's about this,
and it's like, oh, and right away,
I'm starting to feel myself, you know, head down.
- It's 30 below out and you gotta find out
all the bad stuff that's going on in the world.
So anyways, stop watching that,
and you know, do what Bob does.
I do watch the local news,
but I try to watch it selectively.
When the national news comes on, I just turn it off.
- It's funny, local news is usually
generally more positive.
- It is, at least the station I watch.
- Yeah, same with me.
- And then, the other thing is,
if you know some people that are
kind of negative people, kinda just stay away from 'em.
- I would, I mean, I make that a life policy, to be honest.
You know, if I have to deal with 'em,
I'll deal with them, but on a limited basis,
because it's just, they bring you down.
If you wanna be positive, hang around positive people.
If you wanna be successful,
you hang around successful people.
- Exactly.
All right, and this is a tough one for me,
especially in the wintertime,
is avoid the fattening fun foods.
You know, at Christmastime, I let it go, but then--
- A lot of sugars and carbs,
it makes you feel good for the second you're eating them,
but then afterwards, you have the dive.
- The quick gratification, which leads
right into the next one, is avoid alcohol,
at least too much.
You know, moderation, you know,
one or two drinks is fine,
but when you get up into that three,
four, five, six.
- Trying to get through the day,
then there's a problem.
- Oh man, the next day can really be depressing then.
Not that I know.
- No, no, I imagine not.
- That has not been field tested, I shouldn't say that.
And then, this is one that really bothers me personally
because people that are complaining about the weather,
it can be too hot in the summer,
too cold in the winter, blah, blah, blah,
man, I like to say--
- Yeah, when you live in our environment,
it's always changing and we see
every variation of weather, so people,
it is a big topic around here.
And like you said, a lot of people
will just complain about it.
It's always bad.
- You know, it's nice to say, when it's 110 degrees out,
it's nice and warm out.
Or you know, the other day,
it was nice and cold at 30 below.
For example, you know what the cold weather
at 30 below does?
- What?
- It kills the bad bugs that hang out
in the trees and outside.
They just talked about that,
when it gets down to 20 and 30 below,
it will kill, and I wish I could remember the name of--
- We're probably not seeing any mosquitoes.
- No, but it kills them for the summertime,
so during the summer, you're gonna have
less bugs during the summer.
- Well, honestly, the way I started
looking at cold weather and because
there's actually a treatment you can do
where you kind of expose yourself
to really sub-zero temperatures
to treat inflammation, you know,
so I'm always thinking, when I walk to my car,
I'm treating my overall body inflammation,
I'm cooling myself down.
Seriously, it does, it changes your mindset.
It's like, oh, a little treatment.
- It wakes you up, and then the snow,
I mean, we've had so much snow
in the last few weeks.
It's beautiful.
- Yeah, it's big, beautiful, puffy.
- Yeah, and if you go out there
and complain about shoveling, blah, blah, blah,
well, you can do that, but I'm telling ya, it's fun.
It's just fluffy, and it's white.
Matter of fact, if you can do some activities outside,
that is a key to get through the winter.
- It really does help.
I mean, what's been bothering me,
I usually run in the winter,
even when it's cold and stuff,
but the roads are just so poor now
that I can't run, so it's been a problem for me.
So, I need to pick up--
- Get some of those.
- Yeah, the skis?
- No, the spikes on your shoes.
- Oh, I do have those.
- Yaktrax. - Yeah.
- Then why aren't you out running?
- 'Cause I think I could walk with them,
I don't know if I could run with 'em.
- Yeah, I've never used them.
- My wife's been using 'em.
- We started cross-country skiing
because there's lots of snow.
I'm fired up, I wanna do the Birkebeiner now.
- Wow.
- But it's this Saturday and I don't have time to train.
- You won't be ready for it.
- That's a 40 mile ski race that happens
in northern Wisconsin.
As a matter of fact, I think it's like
20000 people every year.
- I've got friends that do it.
They're fanatics about it.
- And they're excited.
I mean, that's the kind of people to be around.
You go to an event like that in the winter
and you just love winter.
- It gets you pumped up, I mean.
- You better believe it.
- You could even like snowmobiling,
or you know, if you didn't wanna do
a fitness side of things.
- And there's, you know, the hard part is
people who are unable to do that
if they're older, or don't have the finances
or the physical ability.
You know, then that's when you really
need to do things like,
if you can join a fitness club,
I know I go at the YMCA and there's
people of all ages that are all shapes,
and it has that atmosphere where everybody goes.
- We're all in this together
and we're trying to get healthy.
- There's disabled people there that work out
and they have special classes.
It's just a wonderful atmosphere.
It really gets you out of this atmosphere
when you kinda got that cabin fever.
- Right.
- It works for me, so if that's an option for people.
This is another one, I did this two weeks ago.
Go outside, you know, if you live in the right area--
- Yeah, you can't do this in the cities.
- Yeah, build a winter campfire.
- Build it right on the sidewalk in the cities
and see how that goes.
- That's pretty limited, but you know,
if you live in the country,
you don't even have to worry about
starting a fire with all the snow around.
- Right, I don't think it'll catch.
- Or you know, what're you gonna watch?
You know, this downtime, you're probably gonna watch
a little more TV, but be selective,
you know, get some good inspirational movies.
- Yeah, that always helps,
and I like your next one even better, Brad.
I like to read, and I just literally look at it,
you know, in the summer, when it's nice out,
and the spring, it's nice, you just don't wanna read,
so this is a great time to start
catching up on your reading,
and improve your mind, and improve your outlook.
- Right, precisely.
You know, the other thing that,
have you noticed anything about me, Bob, today?
- Yeah, you're not wearing a tie?
I don't know, what, what, what?
- I got a fitted shirt!
- Oh, wow!
- All the comments we have about,
you know, we wear these dress shirts
that balloon out, and my wife finally said,
I'm sick of looking at you,
you know, you've got these shirts,
and so she went out and bought me
a nice fitted shirt.
- So you look good and you feel good.
- Alex said it looks like you lost some weight.
- Wow!
I do wanna mention one other thing, Brad,
before you finish, because I'm afraid you're gonna,
people do use those lamps also for--
- Oh, yeah, the light.
- My daughter has seasonal affective disorder
and she uses the lamp.
And you need to use it quite a bit.
It's a large part of the day.
It's great if you have an office job
and you just put it on and leave it on,
so it works well.
So, I mean, that's another possibility.
- Well, I remember watching that,
there was that movie with the moose
up in Alaska, or it was a show, a weekly show.
This was a number of years ago.
And you know, up in Alaska, they've got
night 20 hours a day for a while there.
That's, my cousin lives up there.
I don't know how people do it.
That would be my challenge for Alaska.
- Right, exactly, and then they have light,
when you were there, they had light almost all day.
- Yeah, it was great, it was 11:00 at night
and we were watching the campfire,
or you know, sitting around the campfire, and the sun--
- Watch the sun go down.
- Yeah, and it just seemed to hang out there
for a really long time.
It was fun.
So, anyways.
- Well, take those suggestions for what they're worth.
You know, remember, Brad and I can fix
just about anything.
- Except for--
- I knew you wanted to pull that out.
- I did, but look at this.
This is the one I used to use
years ago on this program.
- This just shows you how high tech we are.
- This is the extent of our technicality, there you go.
- It's a broken heart, wow.
That's fantastic.
- All right, thanks.