- Hi, I'm Bob Schrupp, physical therapist.
- Brad Heineck, physical therapist.
- And together, we are the most famous physical therapists
on the internet.
- In our opinion, of course.
- Brad, today we're gonna talk about the ice massage,
and obviously, we're not gonna use this one
now that I've licked it, but it's good.
- Yeah.
- Yeah, it's kinda good.
Alright. This is-
- Don't show your kids that, Bob.
- Now this is a very simple massage,
and it's just so helpful,
especially for the person who's in a hurry.
- Right, right. - Wouldn't you say, Brad?
- Oh, you bet.
- Why don't we do it on your forearm?
- Sure. Okay.
- Epicondylitis, like a tennis elbow.
- Right, so we're gonna use an ice massage
if we got a sore spot that's just been injured.
- Right. - Right.
- And you wanna calm it down, - Sure.
- You want to calm the inflammation down.
And the thing is, this is easy and fast.
- Right. - You can do this quick so.
What you're gonna do is take a-
by the way, Brad doesn't like styrofoam cups.
He likes paper cups.
- Ah, it's a personal preference.
They just seem so nice when you rip 'em off.
These kind of break and- - See what Brad's doing,
why don't you show this camera right here, Brad.
- But these do insulate-
- And I go like this 'cause there's rough edges on here.
- Right.
- And I just work it down 'till it's nice and smooth.
- Yeah. Yeah, 'cause you don't want those little edges-
- Right.
- Digging into your skin.
- Now it's nice and smooth.
I know there's so many cameras here,
and I don't know where to even show it Brad.
(Brad laughs) See that? Nice and smooth.
- All right.
Now let's say the injury I have is tennis elbow.
Right here, it's very tore, very sore.
Okay. - Tore and sore.
- Tore and sore, we're gonna have Thors coming in next.
Okay. All right.
You gotta have this, this is one,
I know it's a disadvantage of it,
but you make a mess when you use the ice-
- Right. - Cup versus a cold pack.
- Exactly.
- Because you get a little mess, 'cause the ice does melt.
- Brad, we're gonna flip.
- Okay. Say no more.
- You're sitting right here.
Turn, okay.
That way we can see that elbow.
- Yeah.
- No, face this way somehow.
- Bob, why Bob?
You want this? - Yeah. How's that Nancy?
You got that? Okay.
All right, so this is the tender spot here.
And all you do is, boom, and you start rubbing.
A little tough at first.
- Actually, sometimes if they get a sore spot
some people really think it feels good right away.
- Wow.
'Cause the inflammation. - But other people it's like-
Yeah, sometimes it bites a little bit.
And I always explain this to patients,
you're gonna feel the cold initially,
and after about one to two minutes,
it's gonna start to kind of burn a little bit
and be uncomfortable, you gotta get through that spot.
- Yeah. That's the tough spot.
- By the time you get to four minutes,
it's gonna start to go numb,
and the pain is gonna be going away,
and it's gonna be feeling better.
And I go five minutes, what do you do, Bob?
- I go, I usually go to the point where it's numb,
and usually it's numb when you can take your fingers,
and this feels like one finger instead of two fingers.
- Oh, sure.
- So, I'm hitting two fingers like this.
- Yep.
- And right now it probably
still feels like two, doesn't it?
- It's starting to get, yeah.
Yeah. It needs a little more.
- I mean you can go up to five minutes,
but just if you're really in a hurry,
and you only have a couple minutes,
a lot of times you can numb this up
in that small amount of time.
- Sure.
- And a lot of times you'll get that hyper-
Is it hyperemia? Hyperthemia?
Where you get a redness look. - Right, yep.
You'll see the skin all changed color.
- The skin will have changed color.
- Yeah. - And you might have to-
tear it off a little bit more.
'Cause the ice as it starts to melt.
- Yeah, it's kinda like those red marks
when your cheeks blush. - Right.
- So if you wanted to blush your cheeks,
you could probably ice pack 'em.
- There you go, you get a little rouge on your cheeks.
- There you go, it'd be a little cheaper too.
- All right, Brad, let's talk about some of the areas
where we could use this. - Okay, yeah.
- Shoulder's good. - You got it.
- I used it on my shoulder one time.
This is a great one. - I use it on knees.
A lot of my patients, if it's a knee,
I like knees and ankles.
- Hip bursitis, I would say. - Yeah, on the side.
It depends on the person.
One thing, I usually don't use it on a back, but you could.
- You'd have to have somebody do it for you.
- Right. - The back.
- Yeah. See, now, this is one of those things
where I can easily do myself here.
- Yeah. - Or here, or here, or here.
But back here or back here, obviously you're gonna need
a second person, so. - Gonna be a little tougher.
All right, go out and give yourself a massage, and-
- Yeah, get that information down.
- Because we can help just about fix anything,
can't we, Brad?
- Except for a broken heart, Bob.
- Can't fix that damn broken heart.
(both laughing)
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