♪Bob and Brad ♪ the two most famous physical therapists on the internet♪ - Hi folks. I am 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. - Humble opinion. Today, we're talking about
the number one reason, painful muscle knots of the neck, traps, which is right this muscle right here and the upper back just won't go away. - That's right Bob. - You'll find out this is kind
of a surprise to some of you. I think they all think
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knots in the upper trap, lower neck, in between his shoulder blades is due to poor posture
in one specific area. And that area is right here. I'm going to show you on Brad first. So let's go with this way. - Sure. - So this is around C6. That's part of the cervical spine. There are seven of them. This is actually, this
is probably a C7, right? - That'd be my guess Bob. So somewhere between C6 and about then you go into the thoracic
region which is about T4. That'd be about right here. This area right here,
when you round it out, it'll send pain into these muscles. And so you can treat
these muscles all day long but if you don't treat this posture, it's not going to go away. - That's right Bob. - And I have found this the
hard way. And it's worked on me. Now these things, this area is hard to correct. There's tough ligaments here. And a lot of people have
been in this posture for a long time. So you need to really
aggressively stretch it. And that's what we're going
to show you how to do today. - That's right. - So the first thing, all
you need is like, well, I was gonna show should
I show them all that? I don't think I need
to show them all that. - No you did a nice job explaining. You're better Bob than the most. - All right. So all you're gonna need is a tennis ball or a lacrosse ball. - Oh yeah. - We'll show you something
that you can purchase later on. If you want to go with that option. It's good to have a
sock to start off with. Yes, this one looks dirty, but it's just actually came this way. It was that color. - Yeah, that's what you like to believe. That's what you say now, but that baby's been around. You took that out of bottom of the drawer. - So you're going to go ahead
and we're going to start by. Brad, I'm going to show you one more time. - Oh yeah. - These are the areas we're going to hit. Now again, this is the problem area. So we want to, we don't want
to go right on the spine. You want to take the ball. You're going to put it here, here, here. That's three different areas on this side or three different areas on
this side. Here, here, here. Now, ideally you should hit them all. - Sure. - And you don't have
to hit them that long. Like you don't have to lay on
this, lie on this, that long. You can also start against the wall. That's what we're going to
do, have most people do. - Sure. - Cause it's just too aggressive. If you're trying to lie on it, right away. - Are you going to show 'em? - Do you want me to show 'em or you? - Yeah. I'm not going to touch that thing? - All right. - No, I'm just kidding. He washed it. But yeah, it works really well for going just like what Bob is doing. You just have a sock, you know, a tennis ball in your sock and just - Yeah and you're going to put it, I can place it right
where I wanna place then. And again, now I can put
the amount of pressure against it that I want. I can lean back more. I can put my feet out more and I can start to put pressure on you. Now for some of you, if
your posture is that bad, or if you've been doing this a while, you can then progress to the floor and we'll show that in a minute. - Sure. - But while you're in this position, what I want you to do,I'm going
to hit one of the positions. I'm going to actually have
you try to do the wall angel while you're in this position - Or the W. - Or the W, but I'm actually going to do the angel cause we're going all
the way up like this. - Get that motion. - So I'm also keeping my neck
straight or tucked in Brad. - Can you see me, Liz? - Yeah. - Get me on there. I might do better. - Yup. Just like that. Yes. Don't be like this. Try to tuck the chin into
and lift the shoulders and push them against the wall. - Right. - So you're doing lots of things. So I'm going to move it now. Well, what do you want to show - Oh I'll touch it. Yeah. So again, the sock is just - You can see it better over here. - You can drop it down
to the level you want without it falling to the floor. And also you can do this and
you can roll up and down. - Sure. - And that works out quite well, actually. - Then you can kinda hit the whole area, maybe with one position. - This is good, Bob. - But again, I really want you to do yeah. The posture W's or the stretch W's or the stretches in that
way too. The angels. - I don't know if you noticed I was doing that at the
beginning of the video. - Yeah, I saw that. - Well, it's going to become
a famous stretch, Bob. - You're always tryna upstage me but okay. This other simple thing is you can then, if it's you want to try to progress it, you can take a towel or
you could take a pillow and you can put it over the
tennis ball if it's too much. I'm going to do it on here Brad. - Sure. - You never do it on a
soft table like this. It just won't work. - Right. - You'd want to do it on a floor. Sorry. I'm not talking to you. So I'm going to go ahead and I'm going to put it
underneath the pillow. This is a pretty soft pillow. So again, this is a way to start and I'm going to do the same thing, but I'll do kind of some
angels here, some breathing, going to work that knot out,
going to work out the posture. Actually improve the posture. - Right. I mean, you can use a lacrosse ball. I mean, you could
actually use a hard ball. That would be pretty impressive. Then you would for sure
want to have a pillow or a folded up towel. - And then you progress
to without the towel. - Sure. - And Brad and I can both handle this now because we've been doing it a while, but you had trouble at first. - Yeah. - I felt it too at first. - Yeah, we needed some cushion and actually were went to the Backpod. - Yeah. This is the, this was
invented by a friend of ours. He's become a friend. - He lives in New Zealand - And he informed us about this and we were, I think, a
little skeptical at first. - Yeah. He's a physical
therapist by the way. But I watched his video
explaining why it is the way it is and about costochondritis et cetera. But it's a very nice device. - That's right we initially saw it as he has a video about costochondritis, which is pain around the chest area. And he explains very well why this works by stretching the back, improves this. But Brad and I have become, I don't know, I'm addicted
to this thing Brad. I use this every day. - Well my costochondritis acts up if I don't use it regularly. - So you have motivation. - Yeah cause chest pain
is not fun to have. - And I will get knots. I would get knots working at the computer, if I don't use this. - Sure. - And if I even stop
at one day or two days, I start to notice it. That's why I always carry one
of the cabin, an extra one. So it's going to be the
same thing, basically. I'm, you know, I'm going to lie on it. And again, you could also use a pillow
or a towel if you want to, if it's too aggressive, but I'm just hitting the different spots. This one you can't roll on really. - Nope. - You can just, again, he recommends doing
deep breaths like this. Doesn't he Brad? - Yeah or even bringing your arms up. - Oh yeah like this even. - Yup. - That's great. - No, I only do it with one arm if it's on the right side,
I do it with the right arm. - Sure. Yeah. Why even, - Well, I need the balance a little bit. It's a personal thing. You'll find out. But you know, this is
nice because it's wider. It actually covers more
area than the ball. - Right. - I highly suggest you try the ball first, - Absolutely. - Because you want to see if this is even doing
you anything worthwhile. - Right. - And these are pricey. - Yup. - We understand why. Cause we we've made
some products ourselves and it costs a lot of
money to make the molds. And this thing's really well-made. You can drive a car over it, - We should do a video doing that. - I was thinking we were
going to do that sometime. So anything else you want to add Brad, - Oh about this? No. - About life? About I don't know. What do you want to, - Well, no, I just, I'm just happy to be alive Bob. - All right good for you. We want to thank everybody for watching. - Thanks.
