- Hello, I'm Merle.
- Hi, my name is Stanley.
- I'm Taylor. - I'm D'Vaughn.
- And today, we're gonna have physical therapists
review our posture.
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My back has always hurt growing up.
It never feels good, it always feels
like it's hunched a little bit, or slouched.
- I've always had bad posture,
and it's kind of affected how people view me
and even self-confidence and what not.
- I pretty much pride myself on having good posture.
I think it all stems from being
a competitive horseback rider for 15 years.
I still sometimes get complimented for having good posture.
Hopefully my posture is still good,
otherwise this is gonna be very embarrassing.
- Posture has always kind of been a concern of mine.
I just notice that I hunch a lot
and it's something I've always wanted to correct
but haven't known how to,
so I'm really hoping to get a lot from this
and finally have the posture that I feel like
I should be having on a regular basis.
- My back hurts, and I want it to not hurt,
so please help, please.
- Okay, the first person is D'Vaughn.
Now, what we see with D'Vaughn,
she looks like a real pleasant young lady.
She's got a little bit of rounding of the upper back.
Do you see that, Brad? - Yep.
- Do you wanna maybe show it yourself?
- Head's forward slightly. - Little head forward.
Now the typing isn't bad.
She's got the upper arm vertical, which is what you want,
but the lower arm is going slanted up a little bit.
The monitor itself needs to be raised up
'cause she's looking down.
That's what's causing that upper rounding.
- Right, so the big thing is if she gets
a separate wireless keyboard,
and then raises the screen quite a bit higher,
puts the keyboard down on her lap, and she's good.
- She's gonna be good.
- They are right about my back being rounded.
That's always been a concern.
But looks like I just need to have
a higher screen and lower keyboard.
Thanks, Bob and Brad, you're the best.
- Next victim is Taylor.
Seems like a nice guy, has a nice beard.
We start off by seeing him walking,
and the things that Brad and I notice right away
is, again, the slight rounding of the upper back,
but what else do you see, Brad?
- His shoulders slightly go in.
- Yeah, they're also rounded this way in.
And what's interesting is he walks out,
he goes and he gives his shoulders
a little bit of squeeze back like this.
He's trying to inherently get it back
into the right position.
So we'll look at his sitting now.
Again, he's got kinda the slight rounded upper back,
but again the shoulders are rounded forward, too.
Some of this occurs because the screens are just too low.
- But his keyboard's high, too.
- Yep, his keyboard's high, too.
- His arms don't even touch his armrests
and that's why those armrests are there,
so you can rest and relax your shoulders.
But it's too high and it doesn't allow that.
- Again, he needs to work on stretching
his pectoralis major and minor
to stop that rounded out shoulder.
- That hallelujah stretch that we do.
- Yep, and then chin tucks in order to bring the chin back.
If there's one universal thing to say
about everybody who is on these videos,
you gotta raise your screens.
I mean, they're just too low.
- So their biggest complaints were
definitely my shoulder rounding forward
and, along with everybody, my screen being too low.
They say I have to do a lot of arm back stretches like that.
They gave me a lot to work with,
and I know I wanna rearrange my desk for them.
Thank you, Bob and Brad.
- Okay, next person is Stanley.
He talks about how bad posture
has affected his life and has affected his confidence.
- He's young, he's able to correct it.
It's not so bad, we can work with this.
- Yeah, so Stanley, the first thing we're looking at,
your seated posture at your workstation.
Your screen is just way too low.
- The other thing is, is every 20 minutes,
there are some simple stretches
that we have on video as well
that he should be doing, take a break from a screen,
and then take 20 seconds to a minute
and just do some postural stretches,
and then go back to work.
- He says my screen's too low.
I don't know, I guess I have to put book under this.
I never really thought about it.
I see how that makes sense.
I guess I'm kinda hunched down to look at it from here.
Thanks, Bob and Brad.
- All right, we have one more to review.
She's got pretty good posture.
She's probably got the best posture
of anybody we watched today.
The other thing, when she stands sideways,
there's a little bit of a swayback.
- Swayback.
- Yeah, we're gonna show you here.
We're gonna exaggerate.
She's leaning on her ligaments here.
It's not bad now, but over time it could get worse
and she could start causing her
to actually round out a little bit on her upper back.
- We're talking over years.
- She has really good sitting posture.
Do you see how straight she is, Brad?
- Yeah. - She has a slight
rounding in the upper back, you see that?
- Ah, there, her head's kinda going forward.
But if she would do some chin tucks,
that would really make her aware of that.
- You can see her ears just slightly
in front of her shoulder.
We would like to have it over the shoulder itself.
If you sit well, it carries over
into your standing and walking,
and she's got really good posture with walking.
What'd you say about her, Brad
- It looks like she was walking
like she was in a beauty pageant,
going across the stage, very nice.
♪ There she is, Miss America ♪
Do they still have that?
I don't even know if they still have that.
- Wow, Bob, I can't believe you haven't been
watching and keeping up with it.
She sure is a laugher, look at her,
she just can't stop giggling.
- But she's got a fairly good back support.
Now look, her upper arm is vertical like it should be.
The lower arm, do you see that?
There's a slight slant downward, which is what we want.
Her screen is higher than most people,
and she's got the separate keyboard,
so she's not looking down as much.
It could be a hair higher.
- Yeah, she could put a couple of books under there
that aren't used anymore.
- Congrats, Merle, you're probably
the best one of the four we looked at.
- She's got the best posture.
I'm feeling pretty good.
These two dudes just friggin' blew up my ego
like past where it ever need to be.
They said my arms looked good,
which didn't even know that came into play with posture.
Thank you so much Bob and Brad.
You just made my whole entire day.
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