This is great information. I starting having neck and upper back pain about a year into the pandemic when my job became fully remote and I was sitting in front of my laptop the entire work week. I finally got a riser for my laptop and a separate keyboard. You are so right when you say that you can feel a surprising amount of pain due to these tech related contortions. So happy I found your channel. I’m far more attentive to these things now and starting to feel better. Thank you.
A riser is good but if you can afford it I would even recommend getting an external display. I started using a laptop daily for both school and entertainment when I was around 12 or 13 and between that and "phone neck" I am now 23 and regularly have neck pain which often causes headaches (ranging from very mild to, thankfully rarely, nearly incapacitating). A few years ago I got an external display and it lessened the issue since now the only time I really strain my neck is when using my phone. I've since switched to mainly using a desktop computer and I've even gone dual displays since (with one ultrawide and one "normal" for the last ~2.5 years) but in my opinion even having one external display is already very nice (and many modern laptop can even support dual external displays).
My Dad would always remind us to stand up straight and would poke his finger between our shoulder blades to remind us. All I have to do is think of him and I automatically check my posture 💕
You guys are like my own physical therapists. As i m young I don't have pain but I do have to work and my posture has become weird. Thanks for the tips and also enhancing our lives. 🙏❤️
INSANE that you guys are uploading this when I woke up with the worst neck pain. I’ve been doing Uber eats the last few weeks so I thought that may have something to do with my stiff neck
I can't tell you, Bob and Brad, how many times I think of you as I use so many of your suggestions....even at 4:00am! Thanks for everything you share with us.
I tilt my head to the side and an eye doctor said it was because my eyes are not aligned on my face and the tilt compensates for that. Check your drivers license picture and you will see the tilt!
These guys are priceless! Heartfelt thanks for all the tips!! I’ve experienced neck pain for over 30 years and work an office job. I do chin tucks and exercises at my desk. I keep tennis balls and a bigger play ball there. To take mini breaks and lean back helps reduce tension. We don’t often look up, but the neck needs it. BTW I tilt to the RIGHT 😉
Thankyou so much for your dedication to helping people like me with psoariatic arthritis that has affected my entire spine. Since covid started, I've had to wait an entire year to get physio therapy, and that's too long when you need relief.
I have gotten so used to these two guys that they feel like my doctors. Their service, to put this on U Tube, for people with different ailments, accessible for everyone is a service that I was so grateful for it sometimes moved me to tears. I understand what it means when people do not have access to a doctor, who are uninsured and in pain. The service these guys provide to all of us is so important. These two guys are a gem in a world where normally you would have to pay a lot of money to get conditions diagnosed. They also cover a huge span of ailments. These two guys are precious and we can be so happy that they help all of us.
Minor c1 c2 degeneration paired with a less-than-ideal work from home setup for a few years resulted in jaw, mouth, and sinus nerve pain. A new ergonomic desk setup and PT are helping,-thanks so much Bob and Brad!
Perfect timing, per usual! Since I’ve had Covid I’ve been experiencing much muscle and joint pain; neck pain being one of them. Thanks guys! ❤️much love!
Very true about not realizing about your posture yourself, my husband will remind me about putting my shoulders back. Also right now my neck is giving me really bad problems with pain, right now. So it is always good to get reminded, reminded, reminded! So thanks for your very informative six minute video today!!👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
I had to research like crazy and spend about 5 grand out of pocket to fix my neck because after a couple car accidents, I was cracking it with my hands and doing forced hyper-rotation to "crack" it all the time, plus sleeping on my stomach with neck turned 90 degrees. This was an awful decision. I did neck curve correction and prolotherapy injections to fix it and did a bunch of PT including a little bit of what Bob and Brad are showing here but even more than that to get it back to "normal". If you ever had whiplash and any neck x-rays show that your neck is becoming straighter or has a reverse curve on it, let's talk. You don't want to have to let it get worse to the point where I was.
I actually get pain in my arm (on the outside near the shoulder joint and in the lower arm close to the elbow on the side of the thumb) due to holding my phone up as you described in order to relieve my neck.
I got a posture brace bc I could not hold my head up very well and it caused bad pain .. it works great .. i don’t have to ware it for long at all to make the correction.. .. I got a c-1 to c-7 posterior fusion 3 years ago and I’m still miserable after the surgery.. my head falls foreword and to both sides. I feel like a bobble head .. and I can’t hold it up very well but it doesn’t happen all the time .. so I figured it’s posture and the brace I got stopped the pain for most part and my posture has improved using the brace ... thank you for your valuable information and experience.. 🙏
Hi Bob & Brad. Thank you so much for your videos. I am 6 months pregnant & have neck, shoulder, upper back & lower back pains...Do you think a pregnancy of pillow will help me?
Before I would walk to any doctor I always research first. And it is always amazing how simple solutions help and how you don't have to pay a penny for figuring out what is wrong. I love it when that happens. Of course I am not so full of it to claim that it works for everything. We do need doctors for conditions that do not improve or that return or that get worse or that may have very serious complications and so on. But there is a lot we as patients can do without crowding doctor's waiting rooms for sure. We also have to realize that we therefore can avoid many many different prescriptions for this pain or that pain.
Bob, you are simply too handsome to wear your hair parted in the middle. I love you guys!!! You two really help people with your information!!! Thanks!!
I was a front seat passenger in my friend's car when some idiot turned in front of us but couldn't get out of our way and my entire face, forehead to chin did a real number on the windshield. When you look at the angle of a windshield and what angle my neck was at the time, it should have really hurt, but I had too many other things that hurt. Three years later, I was rear ended, and that gave me a whiplash. It took between 1-2 years before I could tip my head back and bring it forward again. Until then I just didn't dare tip my head back or I had to manually bring it back. I got to a point that my neck was so messed up that I couldn't turn my head. A coworker convinced me to see her Chiropractor, because of how much he had helped her. So I did. I really didn't know what a Chiropractor did (I'd always heard they were quacks, but I will argue that point). It probably took 3 years or longer before I could go longer than 2 weeks between adjustments. That was back in the late 80's. I don't even want to know what my cervical vertebrae look like on an x-ray. My L2-L5 are fused and in a couple weeks I have an MRI along with my spinal surgeon to see what might be going on above the lumbar area. I'm an Orthopod's nightmare or bread and butter. Depends on how you look at it. I love your videos.
@@fayokesamuel8041 I have no idea what you are talking about, and you don't know where I live. Bob and Brad are probably in a completely different state from where I live. I've been doing well after the many adjustments I had under well trained hands.
You guys just keep getting more and more famous. Just don't let it go to your heads (and cause bad posture). :P LOL. @1:59 Bob: Bad head posture can happen in Bed too. Brad: 🤨 Visibly confused.
Posture Posture Posture! We intend to be good and then life happens, right? 😂😂 I love what you said about the side head posture, Bob. Have you ever tried any of the Feldenkrais exercises to correct that? I'm finding some Feldenkrais exercises that are helping with my one sided-ness quite effective - correcting the brain pattern that is subconsciously tilting your head rather than just stretching the tight side...
@@dm5129 you might have strabismus I have the same thing I’ve been working on my back muscles and lower back but I’m positive it’s my eyesight fucking with me
I know, right? We don't even think about that. Until it hurts. And then when they talk about the fact that such positions can happen while we sleep too, oh geez
Ha! Optional? 1st kid no epideral, 2nd kid (still b-feeding 1st, see I am nuts) went onto dumping that 2nd ob, yes dumped 1st too, saw him too while pregnant/confirming I thought he sucked, which he did,he visited me in labour, tried speaking French (6 months early,.,) by saying waters (thought I had just one) in French which came out as "oies" which means "gooses" (my gooses have burst?) 2nd ob said I had a bad attitude for refusing epideral, went to 3rd ob @ 9 months, still trying to fight to not have pain releasing injection, more like back weakened muscles, thus called labouring... 3rd ob said "Why not go back to gas lanterns while you're at it!", ok, more tired and easily convinced... So DH had the man flu (even put himself at hosp next day) and couldn't even run down the hall to get me 'anybody' so I climbed up to intercom, "Help I'm in alot of pain" in she comes, my pain understandable as kid is "Right there!" exclaims she! Had to finally vomit as they cheered on, ya ya, "Keep puking" they all cheered on yet looked at hubby feeling sorry for him cause poor guy looked so sick! I think epideral worked against me, it's for the staff, haven't they seen the movies where women yell to no end and rightly so! Doesn't 2nd ob who lives across the (💰 side of) tracks die shoveling snow a few yrs later, aren't I saying "What a moron and there's the proof" as new neighbours were shoveling (5 of them all at once, unbelivable) as snow removal company belly-up, and them all young and me saying "Are you ok? You sure and didn't doc die of... What a jerk" Well this jerk doc's daughter and husband had just bought the place, ok by me, his karma and I can still give a rat's ass about wearing my PJ's (no Vic' Prince believe me) outside which really bugs them, them who drop their kids at daycares, but I'm not angry!
When my water broke with my 2nd one I was walking around at the Ecomuseum, so I then went back to the front and got rain checks! Labour with the 1st was 36 hrs long.... My visiting father in law, someone from the old country asked if I was able to sleep between contractions... 😵
Here is a statement from Bob: Some of our astute followers have noticed me slurring my words. I am not drunk but working with Brad it would be justifiable. I had 6 infected cysts removed from my mouth (noncancerous) and I have residual scar tissue and numbness. I will try to do better. Thanks Bob.
@@RichardAuber Your speech should be back to normal within a few days, it just takes time for your mouth to adjust to your new aligners. If you need additional assistance, contact us via bit.ly/3e0Lp33.
