♪ Bob and Brad ♪
♪ The two most famous ♪
♪ Physical therapists ♪
♪ On the internet ♪
- Hi folks. I'm Bob Schrupp, physical therapist.
Wake up brad, wake up. - Brad Heineck,
Brad Heineck, physical therapist.
- And together we are the most famous
physical therapists on the internet.
- In our opinion of course, Bob.
- Today, we're going to talk about is your sleeping position
creating your pain?
So we sleep like, a third of our life right?
- Sure.
- And for some of us maybe less, but during that
third of your life if you're in a wrong position,
you could be causing pain.
- Yes - Or contributing to pain.
- Yeah, if you wake up sore in pain,
there's a likelihood that
you're sleeping in a posture creating it.
- Speaking of which Brad,
- Oh. - by the way,
to help with pain, we are giving away this week,
a dozy, we are giving away a SleepOvation mattress.
This is, happens to be a SleepOvation mattress.
We'll show you some of the details of the mattress,
at the end of the video.
- Yeah, at the end.
(laughing) - Okay.
So let's go ahead and start Brad.
- Okay. - Now right away here,
I'm going to show you some of the errors of his ways.
One of the first problems, - Bob lets not get personal
now. (laughing)
- One of the first problem is,
he's got too many pillows underneath his head.
So he's in a rounded out position like this with the spine.
Now this is putting increased pressure on the neck,
mid back, and probably even a low back a little bit.
- As well, as it restricts your breathing so that,
that can be a big issue. - Right. Right.
So we've got to get rid of that.
For some people, they sleep with their arms over their head.
(sighs)
- That's not good because it can actually,
put stress on the nerves all night long, and the arms.
- Right, the brachial plexus, yeah.
- Even with his shoulders like this,
they're kinda almost internally rotated,
or brought in a little bit.
- Right, cause everything's kind of
pushed forward now. - Right, everything's
crunched down. - Yeah.
- The legs, sometimes, people sleep with the leg out
like this, and that's just not a good thing
because it stretches out muscles all night long
and can cause problems with your hips.
Even straight, you got the tension on the hamstring
all night long, pulling on the back.
So we're going to show you some, alternatives here.
- Right.
- That can maybe help you.
- Bob people can't see.
- Back up now. - Oh yeah,
- well we don't need to see you.
(laughing)
So the first thing we're gonna do,
let's say, let's say Brad,
you're having a little neck pain.
- Oh gosh!
Can I get rid of a pillow Bob? - Yeah,
lets get rid of some pillows.
I actually think you could possibly get rid of two pillow's.
- I think so, yeah.
That is (sighs) - Now look how he's lined up
a lot straighter.
The other thing you can do,
you can actually take a rolled up towel and put it,
I'm not going to put it inside the pillowcase, Brad but,
- (groans) There we go.
- That's probably a little bit too much for you isn't it?
- It's not too bad. I would take it.
It would be a little bit smaller.
- You can try that. Roll up a towel,
take a smaller one if you need to be,
and place it in your,
your a little concavity here that go for your neck.
- Lower part of your neck, typically.
You'll feel it. It'll feel like good support.
- If that feels pretty good.
What'd you can actually do is purchase something.
You have a Mckenzie cervical roll.
- Yes.
- Same thing.
This would go inside your pillowcase
and stay inside your pillowcase.
- The nice thing about this
it's longer so that when you roll to your side,
it stays in supporting your neck.
- And we'll show you that later
when we have him on his side. - Yeah. Sure.
- Now another thing Brad, you can actually if you want,
this is something that I do. I know this is strange but
(laughing) - That's not unusual.
- Yeah, that's not unusual. If you are having,
if you're really sinking in, in your mid back right here,
you can actually put this one in here.
What I do, Brad is I actually then use
either two pillows or, (sighs)
a pretty beat up pillow.
- So yeah, let me, I'm going to move this down,
There we go. Oh yeah. - Yeah.
- Yeah, that opens up the chest a little bit more
- Right. - for breathing.
- Neck is still - Yeah,
- A little bit too much. - Yeah.
- It's getting close though. (sighs)
- Yeah.
- But as something you may want to consider,
next couple things. I would actually,
if you have a large buttock (laughing)
and you have kind of a gap here.
- So right above the belt-line that lumbar spine.
- I would do is actually try a roll towel there.
I know we got a lot of towels here and a lot of pillows,
but it's worth it. If you can sleep pain-free.
So here's the size that Brad likes.
- You know, if you're not having pain in your back,
you probably wouldn't do this.
But if you are this is a good option.
We've got just towel roll, put it around there.
And I can already feel the support in my low back.
Which for me, with my spinal stenosis
is always a good thing.
- Well, what we're showing a little bit to Brad
is if you lie on your side, - You want me to do that now?
- Why don't you. - Yep.
- It's also filling in the gap on your side.
- Right. - So again, if you liked this,
if it works out well for you,
there is a lumbar roll that you can buy in Mckenzie.
We'll have all of these things in the link bellow.
- I mean if the towel works good for you,
and your happy with it, you - Yeah.
- don't need to buy anything. - That's exactly right.
- If you want to look, these are a nice foam cushion.
They also have a tie so you can tie it here.
I'm not going to tie it. - Same thing, Same thing,
you can roll onto your side
and it'll be there no matter what.
- All right.
- Now, again, if you have a large buttock,
that's going to cause more of a gap
- Yeah - right here.
And you could actually maybe have the back,
will be slumped. - Right.
- The other thing is, if you have a worn out mattress
and you can't afford a new one,
- Right, right. - This can compensate
for that mattress. - That can help that.
And also if you have that throw pillow right here.
- Sure, yep. - Can help solve that problem.
So as far as your legs spread, it generally feels
a lot better to have a pillow underneath your knees.
We can throw this,
throw pillow there. - I actually used one,
this exact size last night. - That about the size I use.
- That's exactly what I do.
- And I think probably the older you are,
if you're a teenager, - Right.
- maybe this isn't so important or twenties,
but when you get some gray hair gray,
- Yeah. (laughing) - Things change in your life.
- Yeah, you look for every little bit
of comfort you can get. (laughs)
And this really makes the difference.
- Yeah.
- All right, Brad, why don't you go onto your side now?
And we'll show first off, a problem.
Let's, this time let's not have enough pillows.
(grunts)
- So for here and my head drops down.
It feels like my head's fallen - Yeah.
Into a whole, - look how his head is angled
that way all night long.
We want his head right, level.
We want it, yep.
We're going straight across.
- Yep.
- This might be too much again.
- Nah, That feels kind of good.
I don't know how it looks like,
but I'm feeling more in line.
I don't think I'd want to go anymore.
- Right. Again,
if you also want to fill in that gap on the neck,
you can use the cervical support that's over there, right?
Yeah. - You can get your towel roll,
And that fills that in nicely.
- And you can put it in the, again,
you can put it inside the pillow if you want to.
- Yeah. The pillow case. it doesn't,
you slip it right in there.
I've done it many times with patients.
- All right. The other one,
there we go. Yeah. - The McKenzie.
- Exactly, they can purchase.
- I think that definitely is
a little more comfortable than the towel.
- Right. It seems to be made for that particular thing.
- The density is really
- Right. - made for it.
- Now this one is I think, worth it's weight in gold.
- Oh, we're doing the canal?
- Yeah the canal!
- Not the Erie canal. - If your having,
- Let's say you're having trouble
with the shoulder that's lower.
- Mm-hmm.
- The one that you lie upon,
which you shouldn't, if you're having trouble with it.
But if you do, you create a canal here
and you take pressure on the chest, thorax
- Yep. - and on the head.
- Yeah. So that, that rib cage on the side there,
and I can feel that pressure release off of that shoulder.
- My wife became a big believer in this.
- Really? - She could not sleep at night
and she was doing it all wrong.
I don't know what she was doing.
- Well, Bob, - Something bizarre
- Weren't you helping her?
- I finally helped her. - How many?
- After a couple of years
of suffering I suppose. - It was a couple of weeks.
(laughing)
But anyways, so then we got her hooked up here
and she slept all night, all the way through the night.
- So she's got her pillow set,
and you've got your pillow set?
- Yeah, we're, we're a pillow couple.
(laughs)
A pillow family, I should say.
- Okay. - All right, let's say
the upper arm, this arm, is the painful arm.
In this case. Yes, you need more pillows.
I'm going to get a regular pillow.
And we got our SleepOvation pillow over here, Brad.
- Yeah. This is, this idea of sleeping.
If you, if this shoulder's bothering you
and if you don't support it while you're lying on your side,
you'll notice a big difference.
- Yes. - I can pretty much
guarantee that. - Now, what's funny,
one pillow probably isn't enough.
- It helps. Yeah. - Maybe, you could try it.
- Depends how fluffy you are, - Put one in place
Then you often need another one
to bring it up a little bit higher.
- So yeah, we cut this one in half.
(laughs)
- That's the SleepOvation pillow.
We'd like to show the springs in there.
- Yeah, look at that. It's kind of weird.
- Yeah.
- But you know, you'd never know until you cut it in half,
they're completely impalpable.
- Yeah.
There, you're comfortable Brad?
- Yeah, it'll do, - Ready to fall asleep?
- Now, my wife's got a shoulder issue
and I showed her this. I did it pretty quick though Bob.
- Oh, you did?
(laughing)
You may managed to revisit it?
- She was grateful. No, but seriously,
she was much more comfortable
with the pillows there, - Yes.
- And so. - Yep.
And that's what you should do, if you have the choice.
You should put the painful shoulder on the top
and support it with two pillows.
- Right.
- All right, we showed the low back
problem issue already Right Brad?
We showed you could take a roll towel and have it rolled,
- Yep. Yeah. - Around your waist.
- The other thing,
I know this is so many pillows. Unbelievable.
But you want to maybe put a pillow
between your knees and your ankles.
- Yeah. This is going to address knee, hips,
and or ankle pain. It's not just for the knees it does
change the hip aperture. - Yeah. It stops the hip
from twisting and it stops the back from twisting.
- Yeah.
- Yeah. If you have your hip like this all night long,
this is, this is really probably problematic.
This, this will stretch the hip all night long
and you will have, I had so much pain from this, Brad.
This was the one thing that I had trouble with.
- How many years did it take
before you put a pillow in there?
(laughing)
- It took it, It took a little while you know.
- A lot of times you don't know
you're sleeping that way. - Right. Right.
- You have to kind of analyze it.
- Well, I thought it just can't be that,
you know, one thing that is - Right
- causing the pain, but it was!
- There's a pillow tag here.
I better put that on the inside.
So you can't see, there we go. - There we go.
- All right, so you need about 30 pillows
(laughing) roll towels and equipment.
Now how about sleeping on your stomach?
- I don't like to.
- No. Ideally you don't, if you had to Brad,
if you really gone to the head,
I would say maybe a pillow under the chest.
- Sure.
- Maybe a little more comfortable, right?
- Yeah.
And I know there's people that
do sleep on their stomach. - Right.
I do for like 10 minutes or something,
- I knew someone who slept all, all night long.
- Really? - Yeah.
- And I get, we get people commenting too.
So I think their neck is really flexible.
- Right. - 'Cause there over like that
And I don't know, they must turn their head,
- Why don't you show what we mean by that Brad.
- So yeah, if you're sleeping like this and your head,
your neck is at end range or near end range,
which puts stress on the cervical column.
And that can cause some irritation, headaches.
- Right. - Things like that. If you,
if you go like this, - You put a pillow there,
- You get a little - You get a little bit of turn
not quite as extreme turn,
so it's usually a little bit better.
- And besides if I turn my head this way,
my mic gets banked.
I can't sleep that way. - Right, right.
- The other thing, a lot of people when
they sleep on their stomach
have their arms up here. - Oh, you know well,
both Bob and I, have stories about waking up,
- Waking up without our sleepage.
- And the arms are completely numb
because the lack of blood flow, the,
the brachial artery is occluded.
(laughing)
And you can't move. I remember one time,
I bit my arm and I couldn't feel it.
- Oh, I was trying to turn the alarm off
and both arms were numb, - Sleepy?
- So I was going (laughing)
- I mean, literally
I was going like this. - It would have been fun
to get a video - Yeah it would've been if
I had a video, before video. - That was before cell phones.
- Yeah. - Right.
So, ideally avoid stomach sleeping.
So that's the three positions, Brad.
- Did we get them all?
- Yeah. Well, I'm gonna show this.
The mattress here now, Brad.
- Oh yeah.
- We're going to show the inner side of it.
I'm really prepared here.
- I normally don't sleep this high off the ground.
That's a long ways down.
- Gotta lot of junk here.
We're coming! We're coming! - Now we're going to show
how this particular mattress is made.
- Yeah.
- I can personally vow for the support on my lumbar back.
When we showed the towel roll underneath the lumbar spine,
I do not need this at all.
This took care - Right.
of that problem.
- You don't need the lumbar roll because this,
- Right. - Right.
- What did I say?
I don't know what I said. - You kinda went opposite
of that. (laughing)
Every mattress has has 700 individual mattress's,
coil Springs, it's got airflow channels, so it's cooler.
It's, it's because of this design, it's really comfortable.
It really hits every boney spot,
and any pain spot, you maybe have.
- Any pressure points,
- Right - relieved, and any parts
that needs support, the hollow spots, the lower spots,
they're supported just by the nature of it.
And we like, my story just said that's,
we speak from a personal experience.
(sighs)
- Everybody, I've had come to our cabin
and try this mattress, has loved it.
And in fact, they went out and purchased one.
- Why didn't you just give them that one?
(laughs) If they've got a pickup truck,
they can fit it in the back.
- Because There's been too many people, so.
(laughing)
- All right.
Remember Brad and I can fix just about anything
- Except for? - A broken heart.
- And I'm thinking the mattress might be beneficial to that.
- What are you saying about?
- Well, I'm just saying, you know.
- To bring people together?
(laughing)
All right. Thanks for watching.