- All right Brad.
In this past week, I had pain right here.
- Yeah.
- In the upper trap.
It was awful.
Terrible.
- Yeah.
- So I'm gonna show you how I took it away.
- You did?
- I did.
- Well, this'll be interesting to see
because if it worked for Bob it's gonna work for anyone.
- That's right.
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- All right Brad, this pain first emerged at night.
I was well, one o'clock in the morning.
- Sure.
- I woke up and oh my God.
No matter how I positioned myself.
- Sure.
- It hurt like the Dickens.
- Yeah, so what'd you do?
- It was like a seven or eight, 10, I'm done yet.
- Oh, I'm sorry.
- But I tried ibuprofen first.
- Right well, it's a good go to pain medication
across the counter.
- Right, it helped a little.
- Gave you a little relief.
And if you're gonna use ibuprofen,
make sure you get the generic kind
because it's exact same product.
- Ingredients.
- And you're gonna get the same experience with it
and it's oftentimes as much as half is cheap
than the name brand so.
- Well worth it.
- You bet.
- Well, along with the anti-inflammatory,
I put some ice on top of it like this.
- So not ice cubes but-
- Ice pack.
- Right.
And I've had patients put ice cubes in a Ziploc bag.
And that's okay.
- Right.
- But a gel ice pack-
- Or a bag of peas.
- Or a bag of peas are- but a gel pack
or a homemade one,
- Right.
- made from rubbing alcohol and water
which we do have a video on how to do it,
very cheap and they work very well.
But yeah, you need to get that co pack on there
for 15 to 20 minutes
and it's gonna help alleviate that pain.
- Again, it helped.
It helped a little.
- This is a tough one.
- It was.
- All right.
The next day, Brad, I tried Kinesio tape.
- Right.
- Or K tape.
- So here's a roll of what it looks like
when you, when you buy it.
- Right.
- It can be any color.
- One of my shoulder blades,
where the pain was at was depressed.
- Okay.
- Not, not, anxiety.
- Not psychological.
- Right.
- It was lowered.
So the tape...
- So here we got some pink kinesio tape.
- Right. It ran from about there.
- Mm-hmm.
Now this stretches and that's the key to it.
- And it went up to there.
- Yep.
- And while it was up, we held it there.
- Yep.
- So we had a couple pieces.
- Right. So how long did you leave it there?
- Days.
- Days it stayed on?
- Yeah it stayed on.
- Good.
- And it helped a little.
- So everything's helping a little.
- A little, right.
- Is it accumulating?
- No, it's not accumulating.
- Okay. So we're kinda waiting to see what's gonna-
- Right, really help.
- Just nip, nip, this in the bud.
- Stick around.
- Yeah. Whew.
The excitement grows.
- All right the next thing I tried is far infrared heat.
Oh, and why do we like it Brad?
- Well, far infrared's got a very unique attribute to it
that it goes very deep into the muscles and the joints.
2.36 inches to be exact, according to studies
versus a regular heat pad goes just skin deep.
So here we have the, the heat pad
the far infrared heat pad.
- The Thermotechs.
It has the shoulder straps.
- Straps. And that's what I did.
I put it on.
- Yep.
- And I had it on all day where I worked.
- So it's got a nice disconnect here from the plug.
- Right. So when I would wanna go
to the bathroom or get a snack.
- Yeah.
- I just, just pull it off.
- Pull it off.
You didn't have to pull it off from your back.
Makes it convenient.
So how many-
you leave that on for about 45 minutes?
- I left it on most of the day.
- Most of the day,
but you didn't have it plugged in all the time.
- Well not all the time.
But yeah, it was amazing.
- Yeah. It was definitely heating that area.
- It helped and this helped a lot.
- Okay. So this is a big step.
- Right.
- But there's more.
- well, I would sleep.
It helped me sleep for the first few hours a night.
- Okay. All right.
- What next, Bob?
- Yep.
All right.
The next thing I tried, Brad was the good old McKenzie.
- Yes.
- All right.
He's a therapist from New Zealand
and he came up with a whole system
of treating neck pain, back pain, shoulder pain.
- Right. So this is from him basically.
- Yep. So I found, I got an office chair that I could lean
over right on that area.
And I would lean back like this.
- Yep.
- And I would do 10 repetitions
and I could feel it getting better.
- So the extension of your neck or the back here?
- More the back.
- More the back
and that's where the chair is pushing on that area.
- Yep. Could you see that?
- Yep. Right in here.
And that's what- that's the key is to go up and down
on that chair till you get the right spot
and you'll know it.
You'll feel it like,
Bob you mentioned before you felt the pain decrease.
- Right.
- After 10 repetitions.
- It was like, oh, thank God.
I mean, I would do it in a, in the middle of the night.
- Right.
- Because it was so bad.
- So each time you did it,
it would settle it down.
- Resolve it, right.
- Resolve it and make it better.
- I mean, I would do this every 20 minutes for a while.
- Sure, sure.
So that brings me to one question, Bob.
- I bet you, it does.
- There's six things we went through
and why was the last one the best one?
Maybe we should have did the last one first.
- Well, we got one more.
That's gonna be maintenance.
- Oh, okay.
We got a maintenance deal.
- We wanted have people to hang around.
- Well, actually it's true.
A lot of these things that will do that trick,
but you know.
- A lot of 'em helped.
- Right? Yep.
- But this took it away.
- Sure. I get it.
- All right, Brad.
So this is a posture issue.
- Yes.
- So to maintain my posture,
I had stopped doing this for a while.
- Ah-huh.
- And I paid the price.
- Yeah. Yeah.
It's easy to let go some of our main, our posture exercises
because you're busy with other things.
- I'm doing everything.
- Yeah.
And it's feeling good and you kind of forget about it.
- Right.
- So we're gonna use some bands like this with handles.
You need to anchor the band up against a wall like this.
We got a wall anchor, makes it very convenient.
The bands that actually part of our giveaway.
- Right? Absolutely.
We're gonna help you all.
- So you get five bands with this giveaway you get-
- And they're pretty.
- They are.
Different colors, different resistances,
there's a ankle strap.
Now there is a door anchor.
If you don't have the wall anchors and you can put it
into a door and use it, move it around in a similar fashion.
- And they got excellent handles.
- Yeah, they do.
There's no doubt about it.
And what we're gonna do is
for posture to get those muscles from aching
like Bob had is...
Bob tell 'em about what I'm really doing here.
- He's squeezing the should blades together.
- Can you get that angle?
- Nice job, Brad.
- So you can do it down here.
- Right.
- You can do doubles.
- Yep.
- You know, you can go high if you want.
Straight down but whenever you do it,
you must think about squeezing those shoulder blades.
And the chest goes out.
- Yep. Good posture.
The entire time.
- So the front,
it looks like this sternum and chest goes out,
shoulders go back and squeeze the...
- And hopefully you will never experience what I did.
- Right. So you're gonna do 10 to 20 of these.
- Right.
- As you get stronger,
go up to a higher
- You could probably do 'em daily.
- Oh yeah, absolutely.
You should have 'em right in your kitchen or your office.
- There you go.
- Basement or wherever you like to live.
- So yeah.
Good luck with your posture.
Good luck with your upper trap pain.
- Get rid of it.
- Yep. We gotta get rid of it.
Keep rid of it and forget about it.
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