bob and brad the two most
famous physical therapists
on the internet
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hi folks i am bob schrupp physical
therapist brad heineck physical
therapist together we have the most
famous physical therapist on the
internet
in our opinion of course bob humble
opinion today we're talking about the
number one reason
painful muscle knots of the neck traps
which is right this muscle right here
and the upper back just
won't go away that's right bob you'll
find out just kind of surprises some of
you i think
they all think it's all from the muscles
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all right all right so often painful
knots in the upper trap lower neck
between the shoulder blades is due to
poor posture in one specific area
and that area is right here i'm going to
show you on brad
first um so let's go this way i'm sure
so this is around c6
that's that's part of the cervical spine
there are seven of them
this is actually this is probably c7
right i think that's that'd be my guess
so somewhere between c6 and about
then you go into the thoracic region
which is about t4
that'd be about right here this area
right here when you round it out
it'll send pain into these muscles
and so you can treat these muscles all
day long but if you don't treat this
posture
it's not going to go away that's right
bob and i i have found this the hard way
and it's worked on me now these things
this area is hard to correct these
there's tough ligaments here
and a lot of people have been in this
posture for a long time so you need to
really aggressively stretch it
and that's what we're going to show you
how to do today that's right
so the first thing all you need is like
well
i was going to should i show them on
that i don't think i need to show them
on that no you did a nice job
you're better bob than than most all
right
so you all are going to need is a tennis
ball or a lacrosse ball
oh yeah we'll show you something you can
purchase later on if you want to go that
option
it's good to have a sock to start off
with yes this one looks dirty
but it's just actually it came this way
it was that color yeah that's what you
like
that's what you say now but yeah well
yeah yeah that baby's been around you
but
yeah it is bottom of the so you're going
to go ahead
and we're going to start by brad i'm
going to show you one more time these
are the areas we're going to hit
now again this is the the problem area
so we want to we don't want to go right
on the spine
you want to take the ball you're going
to put it here here
here that's three different areas on
this side or three different areas on
this side here here
here now ideally you should hit them all
sure
and you don't have to hit them that long
like you don't have to lay on this
lie on this that long um you can also
start against the wall that's what we're
gonna do have most people do
sure because it's just too aggressive uh
if if you're
trying to lie on it right away are you
gonna show them yeah do you want me to
show her yeah i'm not gonna touch that
thing all right no i'm just kidding
washed it
uh but yeah it works really well for
going just like what bob's doing you
just have a size you know tennis ball on
your sock and
yeah and you're going to put it i can
place it right where i want to place it
then and again
now i can put the amount of pressure
against it that i want
i can lean back more i can put my feet
out more
and i can start to put pressure on you
now for some of you
if your posture isn't that bad or if
you've been doing this a while
you can then progress to the floor and
we'll show that sure
but while you're in this position what i
want you to do i'm gonna i'm gonna hit
one of the positions
i'm gonna actually have you try to do
the wall angel while you're
in this position or the w or the w but
i'm actually gonna do the angel all the
way up like this get that motion
so i'm i'm also keeping my neck straight
or tight tucked in brad yeah can you see
me liz yeah yeah
get get me on i i might do better this
on this thing yeah
so it's just like that yes don't be like
this don't
try to tuck the chin into and lift the
shoulders
and push them against the wall right so
you're doing lots of things
so i'm going to move it now or what do
you want to show oh i'll touch it yeah
so again the socket is just probably see
it better over here you can drop it down
to the level you want
without it falling to the floor and also
you can do this and
you can roll up and down and that works
out quite well actually and you can kind
of hit the whole area
maybe with one position this is good bob
but again i i really want you to do yeah
the posture
w's or the stretch w's or the stretches
in that way too
i don't know if you notice i was doing
that at the beginning of the video
yeah i saw that yeah yeah yeah well
it's gonna become a famous stretch bob
trying to upstage me
but okay this other simple thing is you
can then
if it's uh you want to try to progress
it you can take a towel or you could
take a pillow
and you can put it over the tennis ball
if it's too much i'm going to do it on
here brad
you never do it on a soft table like
this it just won't work
right you'd want to do it on a floor
sorry i'm not talking to you i'm talking
over here
so i'm gonna go ahead and i'm gonna put
it underneath the pillow
this is a pretty soft pillow so again
this is a way to start
and i'm gonna do the same thing i'm
gonna do kind of some angels here or
some breathing
gonna work that knot out i'm gonna work
out the posture actually
improve the posture i mean you can use a
lacrosse ball i mean you could actually
use
a hard ball that would be pretty
aggressive then you would for sure want
to have
a pillow or a folded up towel towel and
then you progress to without the towel
sure and and uh brad and i can both
handle this now because oh yeah you've
been doing it a lot but you had trouble
at first yeah
and i i felt it too at first yeah then
we needed some cushion and uh
actually we're went to the back yeah
this is the uh
this was invented by a friend of ours
well i i he's become a friend
you know he lives in new zealand and uh
he uh informed us about this and we
were i think a little skeptical at first
yeah he's a physical therapist by the
way
uh but i watched his video explaining
why it is the way it is and
and about costochondritis right better
but
it is that's why we initially saw it is
that he has a video about
costochondritis which is pain around the
chest area yeah and uh he explains very
well why this works by stretching the
back
improves this but brad and i have become
i don't know i'm addicted to this thing
brad i i use this
every day well my costal con dryers acts
up if i don't use it regularly so you
have a motivation
yeah yeah because chest pain is not fun
to have and i will get nuts
i i would get knots working at the
computer if i don't use this
and if i even stop it one day or two
days i start to notice it
that's why i always carry one of the
cabin uh
an extra one so you it's gonna be the
same thing basically i'm
you know i'm gonna lie on it and again
you could also use a pillow or a towel
if you wanna if it's too aggressive
but i'm i'm just hitting the different
spots this one you can't roll on really
no you can just again he recommends
doing
deep breaths like this doesn't he brad
yeah or even bringing your arms oh yeah
out like this yeah yeah that's great
now i only do it with one arm this if
it's on the right side i do with the
right arm
because yeah why even well i need to
balance a little bit
it's a personal thing you'll find out
but you know this is
nice because it's wider it actually
covers more area
than the ball right um so but i highly
suggest you try the ball first
absolutely because
you want to see if this is even doing
you anything uh
worthwhile right now and these are
pricey
i we understand why because we we've
made some products ourselves
and uh it costs a lot of money to make
the molds and uh this thing's
really well made um you can drive a car
over it
but we should do a video doing that i i
was thinking we were going to do that
sometime
so um anything else you want to add brad
how about this no i didn't do all your
life
about it i don't know what do you wanna
well no i just uh
i'm just happy to be alive bob all right
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you