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♪ The two most famous ♪
♪ Physical therapists ♪
♪ On the internet ♪
- 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.
- If you are overweight with back pain,
we're gonna show you the top three things to try.
And one of 'em is not lose weight.
Now that's what people who always try to tell you,
but we're gonna show you things that you can do
without losing weight but can help calm your pain down.
- Right, relatively quickly, at least help manage it,
to get you through the whole episode.
- Right.
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What is that, Brad?
It's a desk riser, right?
You put it on your desk and actually,
you can raise your desk up so you can--
it's a sit-to-stand desk, basically.
- Right so you can stand and do your work
at your computer, sit or even a sit-to-stand
on a stool, there's a lot of options.
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- There you go.
- Alright, so the first thing you wanna do,
which is the same advice we give everybody
if you're overweight or not,
is you're trying to reduce the amount of pain points
you're having throughout the day.
A pain point is any action that causes pain.
So if you get pain while you're rolling in bed,
that's a pain point.
- Right, or every time you get out of bed you always get
a twitch and you really get that sharp pain,
we need to find out a way to eliminate those pain points.
- Yeah, 'cause the more pain points you get,
the more sensitive your nerves get,
and it gets to the point where you hardly can do anything
and those nerve get fired up,
so we gotta calm those things down.
So the first thing I'm gonna do is show you actually
the correct way to get out of bed.
- Sure.
- I'm gonna show you two ways, actually,
this is the commonly taught way.
You sit down, I'll show going into bed
and then getting out of bed.
So you sit down with your back straight,
and you're gonna lower yourself onto your elbow here,
onto the side, keeping your back straight,
and then I'm gonna bring my legs up one at a time,
like this, then I'm gonna lower myself all the way down,
then I'm gonna roll as though my body is in an entire cast.
- Right.
- So my legs are straight,
I'm gonna roll my hips and my shoulders all together as one.
- So this eliminates the spine from twisting,
which can really be one of those pain points
or give you some pain.
- Yeah, and exactly, and then when you roll back
you're gonna do the same thing,
you're gonna roll it all together,
you might tighten up your stomach, too,
sometimes that really helps.
And the same thing, tighten up your stomach right here,
- Push up on your elbow, keep your back straight.
Now, having said this, this didn't work for me at all
when I had my episode of back pain
and I was trying to lay down,
and that hurt so bad that I said bad things.
- No, we don't wanna have that, Bob.
- So, what I had to do is actually use,
Brad had taught me this method a couple days before,
and it happened to be very helpful.
- Right.
- So, this is the way I used to get in and out of bed.
I came to the edge of the bed,
and then keeping my back straight,
I bent forward, I held onto the bed.
- Yep.
- I brought my leg up, but I'm keeping
my back straight the whole time.
- So this is all as straight and as still
as you can keep it going.
- So I'm lowering myself down because it hurts,
and then I bring my leg up like this,
and I roll over onto my side.
Getting out, I roll over onto my stomach,
I brought this leg off the edge, and as you were saying,
when we screwed up the last video, Brad.
- Yeah.
- Is that you wanna make sure the foot
is all the way on the ground.
'Cause that gives you a sense of stability.
And once that's down,
you can then start working your way up,
keeping the back straight.
- So you're walking up with your arms and your hands.
- Now the thing about the back,
it's very vulnerable in the mornings,
because your back, all night the discs
have been filling up with fluid.
So you're more susceptible to back injuries like,
even a herniated disc, in the mornings.
So that's why you really wanna be very particular
about how you get out of bed even if you're not having pain.
- Sure. - You wanna get out correctly.
Another thing, let's say you're having pain
getting in and out of a chair.
Oh, where's Mr. Booyah?
- Whoa, there you go.
- Kinda throw me a low--
- Curveball there. - Yeah, that's right.
- So getting out of a chair,
even things like this, you wanna make sure
your back is straight, the wrong way to do it
is to lean forward like this, get your back in that
rounded-out position, and you might get that zing
or that pain point.
If you feel any pain at all, you wanna
actually visualize this or actually take a broom handle,
or a booyah stick, the Bob And Brad booyah stick,
and you're gonna have three points of contacts, right?
You're gonna point those out?
- Yep.
So, the stick is gonna touch the head,
it's gonna be between the shoulder blades contact,
and then at the belt line or the sacrum,
and then you know your spine
is in that neutral, straight position.
- And you wanna maintain that
while you're getting in and out of the chair.
Now, my wife just had an episode of back pain
and during that I instructed her
to pretend like the booyah stick was there in that position,
and that's all that she needed, and she was able to, said,
oh, so I wanna keep my back straight
like the stick is there,
and she went up and down like that and she got it perfectly.
- Right.
- Just even the visualization a lot of times helps.
- I'll have people, you know, if they have a hard time
getting up because of their leg strength
then make sure they're, you know, make sure you're sitting
in a chair with armrests so you can use that for assist.
As well as maintaining the--
- Very good point, anytime you can,
even say you're leaning over the sink to brush your teeth,
we had this discussion earlier,
you wanna go ahead and put your hand on the sink
and make sure that it's giving you support,
you also wanna keep your back straight that entire time
when you're leaning forward like this.
- How do you brush your teeth
if you're holding onto the booyah stick?
- Yeah, that would be a problem, wouldn't it,
so you gotta go like this, let go of part of it.
- No, it is a good visualization.
If you can visualize that,
people automatically have a tendency
to straighten the way they need to.
- Right, even if you're picking up a pencil off the floor,
you wanna keep your back straight,
because if you go bent like this,
it's one more of those pain points--
- Right.
- And you're making those nerves sensitive again,
so keep the back straight as you go down,
always hold onto something if possible.
Because that'll give you,
take some of the stress off the back,
you reach down, keep your head up,
just look down with your eyes and grab the pencil.
- And everything's in slow motion
when you're in the throes of a back pain
and it's really acute.
- It's a good point, slow and controlled,
because if you do it fast,
the muscles don't have time to react.
- Right, and then you get those little
Uh! jerks and it takes their breath away, you know?
- Alright, that's number one, reduce the pain points,
number two, you might try thermotex,
which is actually infrared heat.
- Which is, people are probably wondering,
what's he wearing
on his back? - Yeah, what are
you wearing here? - Is he gonna parachute?
But no.
- So this is the thermotex platinum model,
and it comes with straps like this,
which is really handy because if you're having back pain,
and you're working at your desk,
you can actually work around with this cord,
with a six, how long of a cord?
- It's a six foot cord. - Six foot cord, yeah.
- Plus a little extra here.
And, you know, you can plug it in,
you know, obviously if you're having lower back pain
you're not gonna wear it up here,
but, you know, it works good for that pain
between the shoulder blades.
- Yeah, but you can actually adjust it down, too, Brad.
To go down a little to there.
- Oh, there we go.
- Yeah.
Anyway, the reason we like thermotex infrared heat,
normal heat, you may not know this,
but only penetrates like a few millimeters.
But infrared heat actually--
- Let's show 'em.
- Yeah, we show it right on the yardstick here.
So this is normal heat, it represents that,
that's how deep it penetrates.
- Basically it's just skin deep.
- Infrared heat actually goes two point three six inches.
- [Brad] Right.
- So you can see that can get through a lot of,
if you have a little more heavier tissue,
or soft tissue there, mass there,
it'll get through there and get into the joints of the back.
- Right.
- And actually can help the pain calm down.
- Sure.
- So Brad and I actually, especially in the winter
months we actually have it sitting in our chairs,
and we just, I flipped mine on last,
that's the one, I flipped it on last night,
sat up against there all night long while I watched TV.
- Yeah, I keep mine right in my recliner,
and there it is.
I fall asleep with it on there sometimes,
but they say 45 minutes is all
you're supposed to have it on.
- If you use the link below you'll get
a good substantial amount off,
we always make sure if we recommend products,
we try to get the guys who send us these products
to give our subscribers some money off
if they're gonna buy one. - Right, get a discount.
- Alright, the last thing,
if you're having pain when you wake up in the morning,
or when you're sleeping at night,
you know, it may be your mattress.
- Sure.
- And one of the things that you may not realize,
if you have somewhat of a firm mattress,
and we're gonna demonstrate this,
and we're not trying to make fun of the overweight,
we did have a person here kinda dress up
as an overweight person,
but it really makes a good point here.
This is Mike.
- This is just gonna be a model of a firm mattress,
there's a little exaggeration there,
but it brings out the point well.
- Yeah, so when you have some excessive curves here,
it puts some different stresses onto your back
when you're laying down.
So Mike, why don't you lay flat on your back,
your head is over here.
So, there we go, now scoot down this way
a little bit, Mike.
There you go.
Now I don't know, if you can see this here,
but there's quite a gap here.
- Well I can easily fit my hand under there,
and there's no support on the back when it's like that.
- Right.
What's happening, your back can actually
go into flexion all night long
because your butt is a little bit larger.
- Right.
- So if you're on a somewhat firm mattress,
this is gonna be very uncomfortable to be your back
and you're gonna need support.
So what we recommend is that you might try a rolled sheet.
So, Brad, why don't you show it around you first
just how you can put it around yourself.
- So you get it in that part of the back,
and that's probably the part of the back
that's giving you the pain, as well.
And you bring the--
- Wrap it all the way around and you pin it.
- So that, the idea is that's gonna fill in this gap.
- Right.
- It's gonna add support to the needed area,
and there you go.
They do make rolls like this.
- Yeah, what do they call them?
What had we decided? - The night--
- Night rolls.
- [Brad] Yeah, Mckenzie makes one.
- Mckenzie night roll.
- And they're soft and they're cushy
and they have a tie string here,
and they have different sizes, this one is actually
a little bit small for me, it should come up over
about this far.
- Yeah, because what they can do is they actually,
Mike, why don't you lay on your side facing me, too?
You actually, you're actually is gonna be a gap
here, too, and it'll provide support for that too
when you're on your side.
- Sure.
- So that's a way to change it in case, you know,
you can't change your mattress.
- Right.
- Another thing is to maybe get
more of a medium firm mattress.
- Sure.
- 'Cause it'll let the heavier areas sink in.
- Right.
- Yet it'll still give you support.
- Right.
- So, alright, thanks Mike.
So we're actually gonna show you the--
we're gonna finish off here by
showing the SleepOvation mattress.
- Right.
- I wanna show just a brief clip of it,
to show you how well it works.
- Yep, let's do it, Bob.
- Okay, the reason Brad and I like the SleepOvation
mattress, it comes with, and this is a small version of it,
just a cut-out section sample.
It's got these individual little mattresses,
seven hundred of 'em.
we haven't counted, but we assume there are
seven hundred, right Brad?
- No, I did, I did the math once, Bob.
- The reason we liked this cushion before we even tried it
or saw it is because it looks like a ROHO cushion.
This is the cushion we used with patients
in wheelchairs for years, and this is
scientifically designed to reduce pressure.
- Right.
- So we knew that if this reduces pressure,
this was gonna reduce pressure,
so you're gonna have less pain.
- Same concept. - Same concept.
So I'm gonna show you just real quick
how I believe an overweight person
is gonna fit better on this bed.
So, it seems somewhat soft, if you feel it,
they call it medium plush or something like that.
But when you lay on it,
as you lay on it, it still keeps your spine straight.
You wanna show that, Brad?
- Yep, I'm gonna--
here, why don't you, can you bring these up, there you go,
if you look at those, his seam there, you know,
it keeps everything, the whole body is nice and straight,
as you can see there.
And, are we gonna do the--
- Yeah, we're going to show you,
so let's say I weighed fifty pounds more than I do now.
So here's a fifty pound kettle bell, I'm gonna put it on my
abdomen, and look at this, I don't sink in at all.
- He's still, it's not like, you may expect
his hips and pelvis would sink down and up
because an extra fifty pounds, which is significant.
And we still have a real nice straight spine.
- I think I can take that off now,
so anyway, that's why we like this mattress,
we do have a link below for the mattress,
and anytime you use the Bob and Brad link you get $450 off.
I think it's $400 off at the beginning,
and then you get $50 later in the process, but--
- One way or another it adds up.
- So anyway, we just wanted to let you know an option.
I'm sure there's other mattresses out there, too,
but we like this one.
- Yeah, we definitely can verify
this is a top-quality mattress.
I feel that on my back and that's why I like it.
- Brad has a bad back and you've been using it
for over a year now, and it really has become your
go-to thing, so.
- Yeah, I'm gonna be, yeah, well, we better
let them go,
it's getting late. - Thanks for watching.