♪ Bob and Brad ♪
♪ The two most famous ♪
♪ Physical therapists ♪
♪ On the internet ♪
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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.
- In our opinion, of course, Bob.
- Today we're gonna show you how to
get out of bed after shoulder,
hip, or knee replacement.
Now we're not having you do the same way for each one.
Each one will have a little bit of different.
But even if you just had, not replacement,
but if you had surgery on your shoulder, hip, or knee,
we're gonna go ahead and show you
the correct way to do it.
- Even if you had some abdominal surgery,
where abdominals are weakened as well,
we're gonna have some tips for that too.
- I would also say, even after a stroke, possibly.
You could possibly use this method.
- I concur.
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- [Brad] You better believe it.
- All right we're gonna show you what happens
if you had a shoulder replacement
or a shoulder surgery
or like you said, abdominal, or maybe a stroke.
Go ahead and lay down flat on the bed, Brad.
- So, the reason I'm wearing this white device
is because it's the only way I can, you know, demonstrate--
- It doesn't allow you to use your arms.
- Right.
And we're going down. - We were sent this device
by a guy who invented it.
It's the Foot Anchor.
Real simple device.
You just slide it between the mattress and the box spring
or the box spring and the base of the bed, I suppose.
And it's got a little flip out thing here.
And, Brad, wanna show how to use it?
- So, normally I'm gonna try to
get out and use my leverage.
But with this, you flip that out with one foot,
you get your foot under there, the top of your foot.
And it really gives you a lot of
nice leverage just to pull yourself up like that.
And you can see, I did it without
any use of my arms whatsoever.
Normally, you use more elbow than you're even aware of,
unless that shoulder hurts
and you say, gee, I really didn't realize
I use it that much.
- Yeah, and definitely can see it, again,
with somebody who after they've had a stroke
and they have one arm that they're not able to use,
and they're not just-- - Precisely.
- And are not able to get themselves
up at that elbow up position,
that this would give a little.
Really well made.
I give the guy credit.
It's a nice little device.
It's reasonably priced, we'll have a link down below.
And, you know, give it a shot if that's gonna
work in your life. - It's one of those
brilliant, simple ideas that works.
- Yeah, well made.
- Cheers for him.
- Yeah, alright next thing, let's talk about,
you can take that off now, Brad.
And you wanna mark this leg as being the leg.
- You carry on, and I'll-- - Alright.
So let's talk about hip and knee replacement.
A lot of things are gonna be the same techniques.
With the hip, though, generally,
quite often, they don't want you to flex above 90 degrees.
So this is 90 degree, a right angle here.
They don't want you going past this.
So you're gonna have to keep that in mind
when you're doing your getting in and out of bed.
When you wanna get into bed,
which we'll go over first,
you really wanna get up, make sure you're up high enough
in the bed towards the pillow.
'Cause what I've found most often
is that people get right here, then they lay down
and then they need to move up that way.
- Which is a whole 'nother procedure.
- Right.
So Brad why don't you kinda come in,
you're gonna sit down.
This is the involved leg.
Now the first time I would probably have
somebody help you here.
And so that person's gonna get down,
and you wanna make sure that
he feels like the leg is secure.
So a lot of times, you wanna grab underneath like this,
and on the ankle here.
And then when he flips around, you can go ahead,
and remember you got three good body parts.
I mean, you got the other two arms, the other leg,
so you can make sure you use them.
But it's just basically doing the spin,
there's not any magic to it.
Let's go move further a little bit, Brad, now, so.
So generally, you're gonna wanna get out of bed
with the replacement side out.
- So the blue stripe, that means
that's my involved, surgical side.
- So he needs to get to the edge of the bed,
so what he's gonna do first is bring this leg up,
and this he can help either use the butt to lift up
and help move the leg over,
or you can actually take this leg
and kinda hook it underneath here
and help move that over.
There are devices, too, that will help you.
If you have a cane, Brad always likes this one,
that's a good way to do it.
- These hook canes sometimes work, it all depends,
but you need to get around your foot like this,
and then your leg is doing some of the work,
but the cane does, actually, quite a bit of it
with your arms, of course. - Yeah, you can do
almost all the work with the cane.
- Yep, and so you can lift it up there.
You can actually do therapeutic exercises
that your therapist may show you with the cane.
Or Bob as the,
what are you laughing at? - The leg lifter.
Oh, I'm just thinking, you digress.
(laughs)
- Alright, leg lifter. - Why, Bob?
- [Bob] Alright, leg lifter
or a dog collar would work with it.
- Yeah, it's just, you know, it's got a wire leash in there,
but people talk about it.
(groans)
- Yeah, invisible dog, right. - There you go.
- So you can use this to get to the edge of the bed.
- This is nice, 'cause you don't have to have
a lot of grip strength, you can put your wrist in there,
and we're gonna get it there.
- [Bob] And then you're gonna move your body all the way
over to the edge of the bed first, Brad.
You're doing it wrong.
(groaning)
- Well, you know, Bob, I haven't had
a knee replacement, yeah. - Had a hip replacement?
- It's easier when you're the therapist
telling people what to do. - Yeah, now when
you get to this point,
what's when you start bringing it off the edge.
You can also, if you have enough,
you can also hook it like this.
You're gonna use your elbows, get up on your elbows.
(grunting)
Like that, there you go.
And then you're gonna spin around like that, under control.
- Yeah, that's a good point to use
your good leg to control the motion of your sore leg,
if there's nobody around to help, especially.
- So, you know, once you get to the edge here,
you gotta be careful here, though,
because when you get up with a hip replacement,
we don't want you going past 90.
- Correct.
- So we actually gonna go ahead
and put that leg forward a little bit,
and then push up with your arms,
or maybe you're gonna have the walker here,
something to help you,
or maybe you need somebody to help you stand up.
But do not do the lean forward thing here, like this.
- If it's a total knee replacement,
that's not an issue. - That's fine,
you're good, yep. - But the hip replacement,
they'll let you know after surgery,
and oftentimes, usually, beforehand, too.
- So we'll have links below for the leg lifter
and I don't know if you need to put a cane,
people know where to get a cane.
But we'll also put it for the foot anchor,
so that if you guys wanna check that out, you can.
- There you go, Bob.
- All right, thanks everybody for watching.
(lighthearted, bouncy tones)