- Hi, I'm Bob a lot, Physical Therapist.
- I'm Brad Scupper, Physical Therapist.
- And together we are the most
famous physical therapist on the internet
- In our opinion, of course, Bob
- Brad, today, we're gonna tell you a secret.
This is a secret that only physical therapists know
and it's about treating whiplash.
Ooh, aren't you just excited
- Whiplash.
- Yeah. This is something that every whiplash
victim really should work on eventually.
- You know, when you first get whiplash
and let's first talk about
what is whiplash Brad?
- Yeah
- Whiplash, is that a neck injury
- That occurs generally in an automobile accident.
- Right?
- Although you could get it even in a football injury.
- Sure.
- You could get it on a bike.
It's just really where the head gets whipped.
- That's one that goes back this way and it goes forward.
- It actually breaks your glasses and
- Breaks, breaks the glasses.
Just kidding.
Okay.
- A lot of things can happen when this happens, but one
of the major things that happens is often muscles get torn.
You get some tearing the muscles and the sensation people.
A lot of times talk about
after they've had whiplash is they feel
like their head needs to be supported.
They feel like they
they need something to hold their head up.
Like their neck can't even hold them.
And, and again, that, that can often be
because the muscles themselves were tore or, you know
whether minor tears or major tears in the, in the muscle.
So, the secret that you need to, to understand
or one of the things that you're want to do
and this isn't initially Brad
this is probably after a couple of weeks
cause initially, you everything's gonna be hurting.
You might be in the neck brace.
You're gonna just start to get a little bit of motion.
We're doing what we call modalities, ice, heat, ultrasound
electrical stem, you know, all these things.
But after a couple weeks
this is when you're gonna start the strengthening.
So what you're gonna do is what we call isometric
strengthening Brad.
- Sure.
- So what I want you to do is I want you to be
in a chair with good posture.
- Okay.
- So maybe what we turn this
or do you wanna do up open the side, Brad or which, okay
so you're gonna be in a chair with good posture
head lined up really well.
And you're gonna do isometric.
Now. Isometric strengthening is strengthening the muscle
without it moving.
And this is a great way to start strengthening
the neck muscles.
So first let's work on strengthening for flexion.
Brad. Flexion is when I'll yeah.
Going forward like this
and I'll show from the side going like that.
- Right.
- So you're gonna put your hand
you can put it right on the forehead, like duh duh
and you're gonna stop your head from, from moving forward.
If your hand was not there
your head would actually go like this.
So you're gonna go ahead and push against your hand.
And how long do you think we should do it Brad?
- From the study that I had was six to eight seconds.
If you go more than that,
you're really not strengthening anymore.
- Okay. So why don't we go the eight
and just the 1001, 1002, 1003,
1004,
1005,
1006,
1007, 1008.
I think they got the idea right?
- And that's long enough, cause you know,
you'll get, you'll get fatigue.
- Right, and you're gonna wanna go by pain here too.
If this, any of these increase the pain,
I don't want you doing it.
You can try maybe a different direction.
There might be one direction that hurts.
And one that doesn't.
Do the directions that don't hurt.
There's not the idea is not to fire this thing up
and get your neck hurting again.
It's to just start some strengthening.
So that's flexion is the one direction ex yep.
Extension would be the next one.
And that's going back from my angle.
I'm going back like this.
So now you're gonna take your hand and put it
behind your head.
And if your hand wasn't there, your hit equites,
you push back like this and you're gonna give resistance
in the same thing.
1001, 1002, all the way up to eight.
And again, you can do 10 reps.
Would you say Brad?
- Yeah. Five to ten, depending on how it's feeling.
- Right? So we went forward.
We went back. Now we're gonna do rotations.
Okay, Brad.
- Yep.
- So, yep. That's a rotation. That's a rotation.
- You can put your,
- Your hand right on the chin
right on the side of the jaw.
And again, if it wasn't there, he would turn.
- Right.
- But otherwise he's gonna give resistance
that way to the right.
- And push.
- Yep.
- Hold 1001 up to eight
- Again, pain free.
That works out fine.
He's gonna go the other direction
- And go
- Good.
And I would probably do side bending too.
Wouldn't you Brad?
- Sure.
Yep. We're gonna go this way.
Ear to shoulder.
- Yep.
- Ear to shoulder.
- Don't bring the shoulder up to the ear
and remember the whole time you're keeping good posture.
- Right?
- So he's gonna give resistance there
and trying to put the ear on the shoulder,
lend me your ear.
- 1001, 1002 up to eight.
- Right?
And go any other direction.
- 1001, 1002.
And I, I would probably start out with three to five reps
and as it gets stronger, you can, you can do up to 10.
- That's a good idea.
- But not, oh go ahead.
- No, go ahead Brad.
- Oh ,no, that's you Bob.
(Bob laughing)
- Please, I interrupted.
- This, we have found in, there was a
an Australian that I met years ago.
believe it or not,
who had been using a machine to do this.
And he had great results with this after whiplash.
Now there can be a lot of other issues going on
but out of all the things you wanna do
you wanna make sure you get the strength back in your neck.
- Right?
- So, anything else you wanna say Brad?
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