Viral Techniques

By Dr. Jeremiah Jimerson, DC — known online as Younger You Doc (@youngeryoudoc)

Over the last few years a handful of things I do in the treatment room ended up on phones all over the world. Some of them have been watched a hundred million times. People send them to me with the sound off and no idea who filmed them, and every so often a newspaper in another country runs one without ever mentioning my name.

This page is the honest version. Every technique below gets its own page explaining what I am actually doing, what I think is happening, what I do not know, and who should not try it.

How I Come Up With These

Find it, test it, modify it, simplify it — and sometimes it turns out to be something people want to share.

Almost none of this is original. Most of it is an old idea from manual therapy, athletic training, physical therapy, yoga or bodywork that I picked up somewhere, tried on myself, changed to make it work better, and then stripped down until someone with no training could do it in a kitchen with a spoon. The simplifying is the part that takes the longest and it is the part that makes something spread.

I have been in practice over twenty years and I have done something in the range of 150,000 treatments. A lot of these came out of the same afternoon question: that helped, but why did that help, and can I make it smaller?

Test, Intervene, Test Again

This is the single most useful idea on this page and it matters more than any individual technique.

Before you try anything here, take thirty seconds and measure something. Turn your head and note where the movement stops. Bend forward and see where your fingertips land. Stand on one leg. Press on the spot that has been bothering you and rate it.

Then do the technique. Then measure the exact same thing again.

If nothing changed, it did not work for you, and that is real information rather than a failure. If something changed, you have learned something specific about your own body that no video can tell you. This is also how you avoid wasting months on things that feel productive and do nothing.

It is what I do in the treatment room on every visit, and it is the only reason I have any confidence about which of these are worth showing people.

What These Pages Are Not

They are not treatment plans. They are not diagnoses. Most of them are small experiments that may change what you feel for a while, and a temporary change is useful mostly as a clue about where to look next. If something keeps coming back after you stop, the technique is not the answer — it is pointing at the question.

Neck & Shoulder

The Fork Neck Technique

The one with the fork. Approximately 106 million views on the original Reel as of August 2026, with two other versions of the same idea in the tens of millions. What I am doing with the tines, why the sensation may change how the neck moves, and the several things it does not tell you.

Back & Hip

The Partner Back Stretch

Partner-assisted extension through the upper back — roughly 98.2 million views on the original, plus a second version around 25.1 million. Who controls the force, why breathing often feels different afterwards, and a longer-than-usual list of people who should skip it.

Foot & Knee

The Spoon Foot Technique

Approximately 100 million views as of August 2026. Widely shared as a plantar fasciitis cure, which it is not. What the edge of a spoon is actually doing to the bottom of the foot, and why anyone with diabetes or reduced sensation should not do it at all.

More of these are on the way. The jaw work, the breathing and nervous-system ones, and the frankly-just-interesting sensory experiments each need the same treatment as the three above, and I would rather publish them slowly and get them right.

If You Want the Actual Treatment

Videos are thirty seconds long and your body is not. If something on this page changed what you felt and then went back, or if you have been dealing with the same problem for months or years, that is what my office is for.

I practise in West Ashley, Charleston, South Carolina, at 761 St Andrews Blvd. Twenty-plus years in practice, Active Release Techniques since 2004. My Google listing reads Jeremiah Jimerson, DC, ART - Chiropractor in Charleston, SC.

Schedule an appointment or call (843) 873-6004.

Nothing on this page or the pages it links to is medical advice, and reading it does not create a doctor–patient relationship. If you have a diagnosed condition, a recent injury, or symptoms that are getting worse, see a clinician in person before trying anything here.