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- Howdy folks, I'm Bob Schrupp, Physical Therapist.
- Brad Heineck, Physical Therapist.
- Together, we are the most famous physical therapists
on the internet.
- In our opinion of course, Bob.
- You weren't you sure there for a second, Brad?
- Well, I'm never sure anymore.
- Okay, how to fix your messed up sleeping position.
- Hmm.
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- Oh!
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- All right, do you want to say anything about the mattress?
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If you got pain, this is your mattress.
- We speak from personal experience.
- That's right.
Brad you're gonna take it away.
By the way, they do have a pillow, too.
If you want to sample a SleepOvation product,
try their pillow. - Oh, yes!
They also have springs in them too, it's amazing.
- Yeah, I think we have a sample around here somewhere.
All right, let's get started, Brad.
Number one, we got 15 things to go over here.
- Oh, yes. - So let's get to it.
- Messed up sleeping positions.
I kind of like, 'cause if you feel messed up
when you're in bed and things are not
feeling well, it hurts.
- Number one, if you're lying in bed too long,
like for instance, if you watch TV in bed
and then go to sleep, your discs,
the cushions between your bones,
they actually fill up with fluid.
- And that's normal. - And that's normal,
but if you do it for a long period of time,
it can start to cause your body to ache a little bit.
That's why they surmise that,
when you have a flu or some illness
and your spine gets achy,
you always thought it was because of a fever.
But it could be because you're getting too much fluid
'cause you're lying in bed for,
- Right.
- Way longer,
- 12, 15 hours or whatever. - Yeah, right exactly.
So until you get the fluid compressed down again,
which is when you stand up and walk and stuff,
it's gonna be a problem.
And astronauts, by the way have this problem.
- Oh yeah, no gravity.
There's a lot of studies that they've been
working on with that.
We should do a video on that.
- Their bones get weak, too. - Yep.
- Number two, so this goes along with number one.
You're not walking upon waking because,
when you wake up, you don't want to do anything
with your back, because it's vulnerable,
because of the extra fluid in the back.
- Right.
- So you want to walk and it helps compress
those discs back down.
- Right, yeah you're not gonna get up
and start lifting weights in the first five minutes.
- Right, right.
That's not a wise thing to do.
All right, number three.
You're watching TV in bed with too many pillows.
- Oh my goodness.
- I'll throw a bunch of pillows here.
- I did this once and holy cow,
I had a sore neck for a week - You paid the price.
You paid the piper.
- Yeah, I always learn the hard way.
- So Brad was on his couch I believe, right?
- Yeah, I was, I thought I was whatever.
It was a pretty good movie.
- My wife does this too sometimes and I'm like,
you know, I try to get her to stop.
- Hm, shake your finger at her.
- You know, your head is just flexed forward here,
really a uncomfortable position over a period of time.
- Here's his spine and here's his neck.
We need to line him up and get in that neutral position.
- So the alternative to this is to actually use the wedge.
- Yes. So, this isn't a wedge,
- This one, yes. - We're talking about the one
that looks like a triangle.
- Yes, and so you can lie this down,
- There!
- Lay this down, you lay down.
- You do? - Yeah.
- Okay!
- Now, you could use a pillow with this.
- Oh, absolutely.
- See, I'm still lined up pretty well here.
And I, you know, a little bit of flection of the neck
but I can see the TV and even though there's no TV there.
So it makes me wonder about me, how do I see a TV?
- And these wedges are also made for people who have like
COPD or difficulty breathing.
- Regurgitation.
- Oh. - Yeah, like
- GERD? - Yeah, GERD.
- GERD. G-E, yeah.
- Which that's Gastro, Reflux Disease.
- Esophagus Reflux Disease, - There you go.
- Yeah, Gastro.
I don't have it so I don't know how to say it.
- We'll just call it GERD.
- Next one, sleeping on the stomach.
The reason this is bad for most people is because
when you sleep on your stomach,
you wanna give me one pillow Brad.
- [Brad] Yeah, you want the blue one?
- Sure.
Now what you're doing, your head is turned all the way
in one direction.
- [Brad] Yep.
- And joints don't like to be at end range for
a long period of time.
- And you got 14 little joints in your neck right there.
- Yeah, so you want to be in neutral some time.
I don't mind if you sleep on your stomach for a short
period of time, but if you're gonna sleep for a long time
you might actually put a pillow under here like this,
- Yeah, sure.
- And then you can even kind of sleep like this.
- Yeah.
- So your neck isn't turned then.
- Yeah, put a little pillow there.
- Put a little pillow there, yeah.
- Or just see if you can learn to avoid that.
- And you'll wake up with an indent in
your forehead from the fist on your head.
- Especially if you like had a ring,
like a big diamond ring and you were asleep on it.
- Right.
- Nice little dent right there, maybe if the diamond
fell out or it stayed in your forehead.
- Your school symbol.
- My mom just lost her diamond, her
wedding ring. - Oh did she really?
- Yeah, we can't find it.
- Oh boy. - It's unfortunate.
- Number six, kind of what I just showed you.
If you sleep on your back with too many pillows
it also rounds your back, not just your neck.
So it's poor for your back too.
Sleeping on your side with the wrong number of pillows.
So I'm gonna show this.
Generally on your side you're going to have
almost two pillows for most people,
because you gotta fill in this gap
between the bed and your head.
And if you, yeah, I got my mic here,
but if you have one, your head's gonna be like this.
So for most people, it's gonna take two
and you have to experiment with that as far as
the thickness of the pillow. - Right, yep.
- And what's comfortable.
- Sometimes you can just fold it in half
and you only have to deal with one pillow
instead of having two.
- And what you see, a lot of people put their arm up there.
- Sure.
- Which is preference not to do that.
I mean, you don't want to have your arm
like that all night long.
- Right, 'cause that can be a little circulation problem.
Are you going to lay down again or can I sit?
- I'm gonna lie down again.
Sleeping on your side without a pillow
between your knees.
- Ah!
- When you're on your side like this,
a lot of people first go like this
and it's stretching the hip all night long.
- [Brad] Especially if your leg is hanging off
the edge of the bed. - Right, right.
But even like this,
it's putting a little of a rotation on your back
and putting a little stress on the hip.
So you take a pillow and, I do this every night,
and I put it between my knees and it's easier on the knees,
easier on the hips, easier on the back.
- [Brad] It just feels good too.
- Yep. You might want to buy something
if it gets too hot in the winter.
I mean in the summer.
- They make special pillows for between the legs that
makes it a little more convenient.
- I got one that's kinda cool, so.
I mean that is cool. - You put ice in it,
or something?
- No, but it's just seems to be made out of material.
- Better air flow.
- Yep. All right number nine,
you sleep on the side without support for the hip.
We talked about that already.
- Talked about what?
- When you sleep on your side and your hip goes over
like that.
- Yeah we just talked about that.
- Yeah I know! - Let's go on then.
- All right, sleep on a sore shoulder without the
pillow canal.
- Ah the pillow canal!
- So you're going to want to set up two pillows here,
you can sleep on your side so you don't want your head
going like that.
But you use a throw pillow to create the canal.
- Yep.
- And so my sore shoulder, if you're insistent upon sleeping
on the sore shoulder, you're going to sleep on here
but you're taking a lot of stress
off the shoulder because you have pressure here
and pressure here instead of pressure here.
- Right.
- So it helps alleviate it.
And it works really well.
I think we've gotten good comments on that.
If you're gonna sleep on your side with
a sore shoulder on top, - Yep.
- Then you should be on your side like this,
do you want to grab that pillow?
- You probably wouldn't have that one there would you?
- You might not.
- I suppose you could, - You could.
- So your other shoulder doesn't get sore.
My wife's got a sore shoulder and she sleeps on it.
So, you know, she goes on the other side.
- Sure.
- And she really likes this.
- Yeah, and actually it's best if you take two pillows.
- Sure.
- You take one, and then you take another,
if you only have one you kind of rotate in like that.
- Yeah it falls down.
- So it actually works a lot better to use two.
So lots of pillows.
- Yeah just, you know, go out and you know
see if you can buy them by the bulk or something.
- That's right.
- See if you get a little better price.
- All right for some people,
especially if they have like a bigger buttock.
- Yes, yes.
- I'm not judging by any means.
But if they have a larger buttock
they may actually have a large gap here when they lie
on their back and the back may actually
round out a little bit and put pressure on it.
So what we want you to try, is first try a rolled sheet.
- Sometimes, especially if you have a poor mattress
that's hollowed out then it makes it even worse,
then this will be more helpful.
- Brad's gonna show you how to put it on.
- Roll it up like this,
we got some tape so it doesn't come unrolled
and you can wrap it around twice
and then you take a, what do you call those, safety pins,
or something to secure it.
And then that will get into this hollow spot
here in your lumbar spine.
And it'll help support that it'll feel much better.
- Yeah I mean, for someone like
if you have a really large buttock and you're muscular,
- Or you just have a hyperlordosis in your back, possibly.
- It's gonna feel good if you're one
of those people that are like, "I can't sleep on my back
'cause it hurts", try this.
- Yeah.
- And then if you find, - I gotta be honest with you,
Bob, I distinctly my spondylolisthesis,
when we got the SleepOvation bed
that is the very first thing I noticed
when I laid on my back. - You could sleep on your back
- I feel much better.
I think Mike you've said the same thing,
our camera person and IT, he's pretty much our genius.
- Yeah, so the thing is that with the SleepOvation
the individual mattresses actually,
they support the low back no matter what position you're in.
- Any of those hollow spots it'll get right up in there.
- Fill in the gap.
So that's a little more,
- Are you gonna show the sleep roll?
- So if you find the sheet works,
and you want to get something a little more permanent,
what's it called, a sleep roll?
- Yeah, McKenzie Sleep Roll.
- McKenzie Sleep Roll.
- Make sure you get the right length because that matters.
This one's a little short for Bob.
- Yeah, it works.
So you can you know, the same thing.
I sleep on my back, it really fills in that gap.
I sleep on my side, fills in the gap there too.
- That's why I want to make sure you get a big enough one
so it fills the side when you roll.
- That's why Brad put the sheet around him twice.
All right, if you're gonna sleep on your back
and you have spondy,
- Spondylolisthesis.
- Spondylolisthesis or spinal stenosis,
you might try pillows,
- Oh. - Under your leg
Or you might try, this actually works much, much better.
- The sleep wedge, there is a lot of people
that benefit from this.
- So this is a sleep wedge and the other one
was the leg wedge, correct?
- This is the leg wedge,
that's the sleep wedge. - Right.
- Leg wedge. - Oh, I screwed up.
- That's all right, it happens.
- So this slides all the way up
and we don't understand why, but it feels really good.
- Yeah the contact on the hamstrings
because I have to admit,
can you lift your legs up once?
I've put one, I usually use two,
I actually use some throw pillows of mine on the couch
and that's all I have.
And that's better.
It helps, but this is even better yet.
- It's much better, yeah.
- You don't have to go out and buy one, try this and see
how it goes. - Try the pillows first.
- If the pillows feel good,
this'll probably feel even better.
Put it on your birthday or Christmas list.
- Right. - There you go.
- Well they aren't too much.
What, $25?
- Well you don't want your family and friends
spending lots of money.
- That's right,
there we go. - Cheap gift and
it'll make you feel good.
- And you're happy to get you something.
All right, let's see we did that.
Oh the final thing Brad, get a good mattress.
(Brad laughs)
So you know, if you're firm,
no, if you have a slender build,
- Yeah.
- You can actually get by with a firm mattress.
- Sure.
- That's why they feel like a lot of the Asians,
they sleep on those, what do they call them?
They sleep on them on the floor.
- Well yeah those, Mike what do you call those beds?
- I don't know.
- Futons. - Futons, there we go.
And they're very firm.
So, because they don't have,
again if you're bigger and curvier,
you want a medium firmness.
- Yeah.
- And that's what the SleepOvation is.
- I don't know if I slept on a futon once and I would say
especially at 25, 30 years ago, I was pretty thin.
And it was a traditional, - And it was still bad!
- It was still, I was like
"I'm not sleeping on something this hard."
But it was very, they said it was traditional,
very, boy they're tough.
- It's weird on the SleepOvation because it's,
they call it medium firm.
- Yeah.
- But you don't sink in, you know,
as far as like rounding out your back,
it supports everything.
But yet it's weird, isn't it? - Yeah.
- A little bit? - It's good.
- It's weird-good.
- It does what it's supposed to do.
- So that's why you better sign up for the contest.
- Well, it's nice.
I think it has a lot to do with
it has the two inches of the foam, it's not memory foam.
It's some kind of patented foam.
But then underneath that it has the coiled springs
so it's a combination of the two
which I've never seen that.
- I've never seen before either.
- I've slept on one of those memory foam,
on solid memory foam.
And I didn't like it as much
because it takes a little while for you to sink in.
- And then when you sink in, if you switch,
- Roll. - Positions,
- There's a time element to sink in.
- Doesn't react as quickly, yeah.
- And you know, this does not have that at all,
But anyways, Bob, we're running late.
We gotta get out here.
- Ciao.