♪ Bob and Brad, 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.
- Is your sleep position, or mattress causing your pain?
This is a good question Brad, I think
I've heard this before and I would ask it myself
when I was younger and didn't know anything.
- Right. (laughs)
- By the way, we're doing a giveaway.
So is your sleep position or mattress causing your pain?
Giveaway, because we are giving away a mattress, Brad.
- Yes, we are. - How timely is that?
- It's very timely.
- And we're giving away a SleepOvation mattress
which is the 700 tiny mattresses in one
and today we'll show you how that can sometimes
solve your mattress problem because there's certain problems
that it does a really good job on.
- And then we're gonna go through the situations
where it doesn't matter what mattress you have,
you're gonna have some pain.
- You gotta make some body adjustments basically.
If you're new to our channel,
please take a second to subscribe to us.
We provide videos how to stay healthy, fit,
pain-free and we upload everyday.
Also, join us on our social media channels.
Whoa you got pretty elaborate there Brad.
Let's turn it around. - Upside down can you believe?
Yeah that never happens. - Turn it around.
We got Instagram, we're gonna be doing our giveaway on there
but we got the giveaway on Facebook.
We're announcing it everywhere, actually.
If you go to bobandbrad.com,
we have giveaways, it's on there.
The mattress one, you wanna go to Facebook,
that's the easiest way to find it,
or in our description down below.
- And we've given away, I think three so far.
If you look at SleepOvation, they'll have the names
of the people that received 'em actually.
- Yeah, so it's not just a scam (chuckles).
Alright Brad, you wanna take it away?
- What? - What we're gonna talk about.
- Oh yeah, sleeping.
So, shall we talk about some of the situations
where it doesn't matter with the mattresses.
For example, if you sleep with your arms overhead like this,
whether you're laying on your back, or on your stomach.
Oftentimes, what could happen is the circulation
can be occluded or compromised,
or the nerve, your brachial plexus, can be pinched
and that can cause numbness, tingling.
I mean I've woken up with my hands above my head,
sleeping on my stomach and they're numb.
- Well, I've told a story where I actually woke up
and both of them were numb and the alarm was going off
and I was trying-- (laughs).
But it's also bad for shoulders, Brad
because if you have an impingement syndrome
and you have your arms up all night long,
there's not a lot of circulation going to that area,
and you can make your impingement worse.
- Which brings the point across, any end range,
any joint that's put at the end range
for a long period of time, like when you sleep.
And this would be the end range of your shoulder,
if your elbow is hyper-extended out this way,
to the end range and held there, your wrist like this.
Those situations when you're sleeping
you really don't know... hopefully your body realizes that
and that's why people move round
when they're sleeping without... their body's talking.
- Your body is telling you, it doesn't feel good.
You know Brad, I'm just gonna show you very quickly.
Sometimes when I'm reading in bed, I'll go like this
and I'll put my leg off the edge of the bed here
and my knee starts to hurt after a bit
because I'm stretching the knee, it's at end-range.
It's just not comfortable so...
- Another common one, and this gets
a little controversialist from some of our viewers I know.
But we do not recommend prawn, or laying on your stomach,
because your head and your neck goes to end-range.
Now if you're really hyper-flexible
maybe that's not the case but when you're over like that,
it puts the joints in your neck at end-range
and it can cause neck pain, headaches
and possibly pain down to your arms.
- That's another story I've told before
about when I was at a course one time.
There was about 75 people at the course
and we asked how many people had headaches
and out of all those people we asked,
"How many of you sleep on your stomach?"
and everybody who slept on their stomach had headaches.
I mean, I don't know if it was a coincidence
and the instructor was bringing it up to make a point,
that headaches are quite common
in people who sleep on their stomachs.
- Now, if you're one of those people who's a stomach sleeper
and you have zero problems, that's okay.
What you probably do is turn your head
from side to side regularly enough--
- I, myself, will sleep on my stomach for...
I mean I'll do for half-hour sometimes
just to mix it up a little bit,
but I try to stay off of it as much as I can.
- I'll give another example.
This happened to me where if I'm laying on my back
coz I do sleep on my back mostly.
If I have my arm off the edge of the bed
and my arms dangling there.
My elbow is fully extended and then I'll wake up
and my elbow hurts and then I gotta bend it
and then it hurts and then I'll kinda
work it around a little bit and it gets better
and then I go back to sleep, but that's a perfect
example of end-range joint pain.
- Yeah would you consider this end-range too, Brad?
- Sure. Yep.
- So in this case, now we're in the opposite direction
because some people sleep with their arm
curled up underneath them like this.
Now look at the wrist, this is the one
that can lead to the carpal tunnel syndrome.
Because you're impinging on...
You're blocking it basically,
compromising the circulation to the nerve
and it'll wake them up with a tingling
and they lay on it, make it even worse
plus you're not getting great circulation here either so...
And we find a lot of people who do that
so you really wanna avoid sleeping with that arm curled up
and that's sometimes why you have
people wear splints for carpal tunnel syndrome.
- Now let's talk about some mattress problems
- Okay, so mattress issues.
- A big problem, or it could be a big problem,
is if your mattress is old.
If you got one of the old mattresses
with the box-spring underneath.
- And there's a great bow, is that right Brad?
- Yeah and its like, if you fill it up with water,
if it would hold water, you know it'd be
like a pond in there coz it's all sunk down.
And then you're slouched into that
and that's gonna cause oftentimes
back problems, hip pain, things like that.
- Yeah, you're slouched all night,
we used to have one like this.
When you're younger, you don't have any money,
so my wife and I, we'd get in there
and you almost roll together (laughs).
You couldn't stay away from each other
because the bow was so bad and we did use plywood
in between the mattress and, yeah--
- It'd be like sticking a piece of plywood
between the mattress and the box-spring
to give it some support.
- It does give you a temporary fix, it can help.
It helps with couches too sometimes.
Plywood between (laughs) - Sure, the cushions.
Luckily we're passed that stage of our lives.
(chuckles)
The other thing is if it's actually,
you know you like a mattress that's fairly firm
coz it keeps your body in pretty good posture,
but if it's too firm, what's gonna happen Brad?
- Then you can get pressure points
and then you can have circulation problems
that cause pain and in certain cases,
it can actually, with people with diabetes
or elderly people that pressure point
can lead it to skin breakdown.
- Absolutely, especially on the heels we see it quite often,
but we see it on the bottom too.
- That's why we have this board on here
to represent too firm of a mattress.
- Yeah so we got Sam the skeleton here,
if you look he's in very good posture,
so this is very good for the spine and neck
because of the good position he's in
but look at the points of pressure we have here.
We have a point of pressure...
Where's your booyah stick Bradley?
- [Brad] Fear not, Bob, fear not.
We can point from this direction.
- [Bob] So we have a point of pressure on the head.
We have a point of pressure on the back.
We have a point of pressure on the pelvis,
knees and also on the ankles or the heels.
- Especially if the person plantar flexes
which most people do then that is
a real common point for skin breakdown.
- Can we put him on his side, Brad?
- Sure.
- So we if we put the skeleton on his side,
now look at the points of pressure
and that's why shoulders get sore.
You know Brad and I treat a lot of shoulder injuries,
a lot of shoulder pain and how often Brad
do you find someone that says
"I'm having shoulder pain in the left shoulder"
I go "Do you sleep on that shoulder?" "Yes".
- Yeah. Then we try to train them or help them
to sleep other than on their shoulder,
on their back or... you know how it is
if they're a shoulder sleeper, historically
- It's hard if you've been doing it for years.
- It's a hard habit to break.
- So really, a great amount of pressure there,
a great amount of pressure on the point of the hip here too,
and a lot of the times the knees come together,
they're bony like this and there's a lot
of pressure there too and that's why
we recommend a pillow a lot of times between the legs.
- The mattress is too firm that can be a problem
and that's why we're talking about these,
the mattress like the SleepOvation
where we have all these individual cells
that help take off that. - Let's show that, Brad.
Lets pull this outta here and we'll show you
what a good mattress can do.
You can actually have the person,
I'm gonna take your fingers out your mouth here, Sam.
You gotta stop that habit. - Yeah (growls).
- You've got the point of the shoulder here,
but look how he sinks right in
and it takes the pressure off
coz these little individual cells.
Same with the point here on the hip,
same with on the knee and same with on the ankle,
and if you lay back like this,
this is where you wanna talk about the back pain right?
- This is where there's actually something
called a cervical, or a sleep roll,
for supporting your lumbar spine when you're laying down.
With a good mattress like this,
and this is what I noticed, I have a mattress
and as soon as the first night I used it,
when I laid on my back I immediately felt support
right in here above my beltline which I had not felt before.
It's like wow, that is a very comfortable feeling,
and that's it and these are memory foam.
They're three inches thick and you can see
how they come right back where they're supposed to be
and that really is responsible for that low back support.
- And the heel is the other one here.
It's like it was made for the painful heel.
- Yeah, you know, it'll sink right in.
We just really do appreciate this concept
was used in wheelchair positioning with the roho cushion
which is the deluxe. - Right.
That's why we liked it right away from the start,
is we saw this looks similar to that
and we've being using that for 30 years.
- Right with very good success
for keeping people comfortable.
- Anything else we wanna talk about Brad?
I mean, in other words,
it could be the bed, it could your positioning.
You gotta try some things first
and if they don't help then maybe it's time
to get a new mattress.
- I just wanna say, just to finish off,
we gotta couple minutes here to play around.
But just yesterday I received my second one,
for our spare bedroom for guests
because we're having guests coming over
- I just wanna say, when you and your wife are fighting,
you wanted to sleep in comfort
when you have to get out of the room?
- Bob! I didn't wanna mention that,
but she probably won't listen to this.
These come up in a box, and you open it up
and I called I said--
- You called coz you thought it was too small.
- I said this box is too small.
I think I've got just a little twin bed
and I ordered a queen and she says,
"No, it's in there, don't worry about it.
"It's all in the same box."
So I open it up and (makes noises)
and it looks just like this, its incredible.
- When I die, I want you to bury me in one of those boxes.
Wrap me up in plastic and shrink me up until little
and then you can have, you know people can carry me.
- Bob, no we'll let your wife do that.
She'll take care of that - She'll shoot me outta cannon
or something like that (laughs).
- Thanks for helping, Sam.
- Thanks everybody for watching.