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I'm Bob Schrupp physical therapist, Brad Heineck physical therapist and together we are the famous physical therapist on the Internet in our opinion, of course
Bob. Okay, Brad today we're
gonna show you what happens when you use a brush over this area and watch what happens. I was trying to intrigue people
Yeah, you got them coming they're
Rolling in. All right, actually what the video is about we're gonna be talking about upper cervical pain
So right upper neck
Upper neck and a lot of times what that can also cause or lead to is those headaches that come around and
Sometimes they come around the parietal area as we say we can even go into the eye. Sure, it can be sometimes
One-sided more often than not one-sided
Sometimes they can be two-sided though, and we're gonna show you some techniques for taking away for the pain here and up in here
Right that referred pain that goes up and some people call it like a full wrap. Oh really, All right.
Yeah, okay, my brother-in-law had that from a car accident and he'd always refer to it as I have a full wrap going on.
Cause yeah, they call call headaches Global sometimes - I think that's the whole head, isn't it?
So yeah, global like the globe like, right? Yeah, I don't want to digress
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Situation, so let's not keep them in suspense anymore Brad
You're just gonna go ahead and take a regular brush and there's some science behind this
When we when I've worked with people who have amputations I've done the same thing we're and they have phantom pain
That means there's pain out where there's no longer a limb. Right.
So their foot hurts or their hand hurts, but they've been amputated up at the elbow level
so what we'll often do is take a terry cloth and rub it over the
Residual limb and what that's doing is it's Bombarding the neurological system. It's it's kind of
Overloading it. Sure, so that it actually can knock the pain off. It's the same way a TENS unit works
TENS, transcutaneous electrical neuro-muscular stimulation and also if you want an example from your life
Remember when you fall down as a kid? Yeah, what's the first thing you do?
You rub your knee and what you're trying to do is you're trying to overload that sensory system
so a technique again, we're just going to give you this is a little bit again out there, but you can take a hairbrush and
If you want to do a close-up here, you can actually just take the brush and tap it like this
Right on the area where you feel the pain right where you feel the pain and this actually did you feel this Brad?
Yeah. Oh, yeah it really it really does work
Yeah, it really does overload and then you can actually just take it and brush a little bit make circles sure like this
and you can actually go into the scalp here too because
It's a brush so you can actually go up into the scalp a little bit
Afterwards you can comb your hair with it. That's right, and you look good and you feel good at the same time. There ya go.
Alright the next technique Brad
This one actually is a lot of times the problem with upper cervical problems is that
It can be one of two things. So this is the spine
Brad you want to stand? All right, you may be show on the real spine so we can relate this
So this is the spine you can see the head is removed here the first two
vertebrae c1 and c2
there's an that greater occipital nerve comes out from between there goes up into the head and around the skull and
that's can often get some impingement on there or some pressure on there or and so that's why we're gonna
Show you this technique the other thing is that quite often there may be a lack of motion as far as rotating
Yeah, and a lot of your rotation, I've I remember reading different amounts
But forty to fifty percent of your rotation comes from that those first two levels. Right.
Particularly with rotation. Yeah, so if you're what I want you to do
the first thing I want you to do is maybe have someone look at you or
Look at yourself in the mirror
Maybe you can tell I want you to see how far you are rotating
And if you have one side that you're going this far and the other side you're within normal limits
You're gonna want to regain that motion. Sure. That's gonna really help decrease your pain. It might even help stop that headache. Right.
So we're gonna show you a technique. Are you gonna do it to Brad or not? Well, yeah, you got an extra towel?
Oh, I'll get one here. All right, go ahead. I'll jump right in so
this is a little bit complicated but follow us so you're gonna take a towel and we like to
Selvage. Yeah, yeah the edge of the towel.
so you're gonna go like this make a little cape out of it and you're gonna put the
Selvage right below the ear
I'm gonna right below the ear like this. Sometimes you have to have someone else do this on the back
It makes a little easier. All right. So what I'm gonna do now is I'm gonna work on going to the left
So I'm gonna drop this one down
Grab this one and this one is kind of pointed up from the eyes up by the eyes
I'm pulling down on this one, and I'm going to the left and
You're gonna just give it and this should be pain-free this is not something that should hurt
You can give it a little bit of stretch at the end, but it should not hurt you
Want to make sure your shoulder is not coming along with it
Brad, yours looks like a complete mess. Well, Bob you know that's why I do it
Are we sure the way I do it it's a little easier I have a different method
but well, this is one you want to really get up in that c1 c2 Brad so well, you know, that's why I'm
People I was like, this is the see, I was leading into something you thought I was just goofing off. But yeah, he actually this is the
Yes, Bob. You're killing me. This is the stretch out strap
You can find it out in the amazon section below but this really works well because it's thin and it gets into that area
And if you have fingers or arthritic arthritis in your hands, you have a hard time grasping it really the big advantage
It's easier to do that
Again make sure you're underneath the ear out by the eye almost Brad
So let's go the other direction. Sure. That's okay, so now we're gonna go to the right so again we start here I
Dropped this arm down. I
grab this one I
Pull this one is going straight down not across like this. You'll be choking yourself and then you pull it across like this and
I have seen this work really well with people who have a lack of motion
And again, this shoulder is not coming along with me
Sometimes people even hook it around a chair to stop it from coming with
And you can do like a good set of 10 reps
You can do these every hour if you have enough, you know as a good way to help stretch it
So again pain-free, that's the thing we want to emphasize with that. All right. The last thing you can do is
We're going to show you a couple bonuses too, but if you want to face this way Brad, so we're gonna show the massage
so you can actually just take your fingers and
Massage along the base of the skull and you can do little circles and work your way around
You know work your way to the edge
and then you can go ahead and do more of like a splan massage where you put your two fingertips together and
Just pull them apart
Brad's demonstrating that quite nicely there and this actually incorporates some of that
theory you're talking about with the brush because like right now when I'm pulling I'm actually
tugging on my he little hairs a little bit and creating a little bit of
Sensory overload. Exactly sensory overload. You know next week I'm getting my haircut
We should have waited to do it then I'm getting my haircut too. Oh really?
Yeah, a little hippie.
Which reminds me guess whose birthday it is today while we're filming today on the 14th
It's not today this I don't know when this videos going up. He's in his 50s
Yeah, well into my 50s. I'm headed down into the
You know, they say the banana peel on the one foot other foot in the grave. Yeah
Make sure you have good posture while you're doing these. Really make sure you're a really upright posture while doing all these all these exercises
The bonus and ones that you really want to do make sure you're doing chin tucks. Right.
I know we've we mentioned these a lot but you want to make sure that really loosens up that upper neck. Yep
So as you can see again, you don't go down like this and you don't go up like this
you just go straight back and then
Finally, this is once I've had some people have good luck with they take their fist underneath their chin and they pull on their skull
a little bit again
This is a you can't be too aggressive with this one because you can really actually get a lot of leverage. Sure
You can see the thumb is actually down here
Yeah, and give it a little pull here. It just it gives a little bit of stretch
And it stretches that upper cervical spine out. Yeah, I like that one.
Glad your head didn't pop out you really had me going on this one, by the way
I can't believe that I believed you on that one
Alright, remember Brad and I can fix just about anything
Except for the broken heart. Yeah, we could lasso with a
stretch-out strap, there we go. We got to put this in the protocol while we're working on it. There you go. Thanks a lot