(Brad chuckling) - That was good, Brad.
So if your knees or hips hurt every time
you go up or down steps-
- Well, try this instead.
- Yeah, we've got an answer for you.
♪ Bob and Brad. ♪
The two most famous physical therapist on the internet.
All right, this is all gonna boil down
to how we posture our hips on down.
If you look at my feet,
and this is different between different people.
I have my toes point out naturally
I feel very comfortable with that.
Some people are more in line and some people
actually point inwards a little bit.
Now that can make a difference on pain in your hips
and your knees going up and down steps.
And now we're gonna show you why with Sam.
Sam-I-Am.
Are we cut? (Brad chuckling)
Okay, so here we got Sam's left hip
and we've got all the muscles
and soft tissue out of the way actually.
And if the toes point out,
look at the position of the hip socket.
We got the femoral head into the socket.
- [Bob] Yeah, you're born this way.
- Yep, and now that was if your toes are kind
of pointed out now this goes the opposite direction.
If your toes kind of point in, straight ahead or in
and you know we've got this metal thing in here,
which you don't have in your hip.
So it's hard to get an exact replica of what's going on.
But you can see that motion.
And what that does is it changes
the mechanics of the hip and the knee when you put
the stress of your body weight as you go up
the stairs as well as down.
Some people have more pain I would say in general
with my experience, going down they experience more pain.
- I agree. - Than going up.
So we're gonna show you a trick that you can do
to help eliminate that pain.
Keeping this-
- By the way, Brad, men tend to be turned out more
and women tend to be turned in.
Right, and we don't really know why do we?
Well, there's a lot we don't know but they,
the people out there, those really smart people.
- The smart people. (Brad chuckling)
- Okay, what you're going to need is some stairs.
So go to your house or hopefully
somewhere you have your steps.
- Very good.
- And you're gonna do three trial runs
if you will up and down the steps.
And monitor the pain in your hips and your knees first-
- It's very simple.
- Yep, first of all go up and down
the steps without thinking about
the posturing of your feet at all and just go up.
- What you do normal.
- [Brad] Yep, I'm not even looking.
This is just my normal gait pattern on the steps.
Monitor the pain and say, oh my right hip kinda-
- Rate the pain.
- Yep, I got a 6 over 10 here.
I'm making this up now.
But this could be very real.
And then the next time you go up,
take your feet and we call it retrovert.
Or actually point them out, your toes out a little bit.
So you're gonna walk like, was it Charlie Chaplin?
- Right, absolutely.
- The older people in the crowd will remember Charlie.
Do you guys remember Charlie?
- With his cane. (Bob chuckling)
- So I'm gonna go out and exaggerate going out
and then monitor that same hip pain
or whatever pain is there and also do it down.
I'm going-
- That should feel better for you, Brad, right?
- Right, this feels much better than this for me.
I know that 'cause I've done this before.
And then check it again.
Say I had a six and oh, now that went down to three.
Now I'm gonna kind of point in a little bit.
Now some people will be able to point in.
Now if I do that, that hurts already.
So I'm not going to exaggerate it that far.
And then I'm gonna just go up like this
and actually this makes my left hip hurt right now.
So this is a real 2 over 10 right there.
- 10 right there.
- So I know that I am going to negotiate steps
And I'm gonna- - How about straight, Brad?
- Oh, straight.
Yes, I'm sorry.
And pointed straight.
That doesn't feel too bad.
And I don't know, I think when I went by myself
the first time I probably had my toes pointed out.
This isn't too bad but it doesn't feel as comfortable
as when I point out a little bit.
- Sure.
- So what you do, Bob, correct me if I've got this wrong.
You're gonna go up and down in whichever way
that creates less pain.
- That's your future.
- That's how you're gonna go up and down steps-
- From now on.
- Yep, and you have to think about it.
But after you do it for a number of days or weeks
or in my case a couple years
'cause I'm a little slower then you will-
- Your hips and knees will love you.
- Right, so it's a matter of getting the alignment proper.
- We love you.
- Yeah, so everything is good.
You know, if you got stairs like these,
you can just get them outta the way.
And then get them out
and then you don't even have to do stairs anymore.
And then you don't have to worry about them.
(Bob chuckling)
- Anyways- - There we go.
- Very good, good luck with those hips
and knees on the stairs.
We wanna keep them as long as possible as opposed to-
- Keep them healthy.
- Yep, as opposed to replacements.
So I don't know if this- - Peace.
- Yeah, goodbye. (cheerful music)