♪ Bob and Brad, ♪
♪ the two most famous physical therapists on the internet ♪
- Hi, I'm 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.
- Brad, today you wanted to talk about
the safe use of ibuprofen, or NSAIDs.
- Right, non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug,
which is ibuprofen fits into that category,
and it's very common across the counter.
And if you're a type of person
that does not like to take pills,
and usually our viewers are,
that's why you do therapy things-
- Right.
- Is to get rid of your pain naturally,
through exercise versus poppin' pills,
so to speak. - Right.
This is a really good way to approach acute pain,
or pain when you have strained a muscle,
and you know you need to take something,
but how much, how long, should you take it.
- And first off, we're not pharmacists,
as you probably know. - No.
- We're physical therapists.
But, you spoke directly to a pharmacist-
- Exactly.
- And got the information.
So we're basically just being conduits,
we're taking information,
and we're passing it on to you.
- Right.
So, this is it.
There's red flags,
if you're an older person, 65 or older,
then you may want to consult
with your doctor or pharmacist on this.
- Sure.
- So those people-
- Too many issues goin' on at that age.
- Right, if you have kidney problems, liver problems,
you're not gonna do it.
This is for healthy adults.
- Sure.
- This is not for children.
- Right.
- If you have a child,
you're gonna decrease the dose.
- And you're gonna talk to your doctor about that.
- Right, and we're not gonna talk about that.
- Yeah.
- Okay, so how many pills do you take?
Typically one ibuprofen across the counter
is 200 milligrams.
- Okay.
- Okay?
You can take up to four. 800, that's a maximum.
- Okay. - You don't have to take four,
I usually take three,
but I have taken four.
- That would be 600.
- Right, exactly.
- And you're taking it with food, probably.
- Right, always with food. - Always take with food.
- Exactly.
And you don't have to have a large amount of food.
- But just something in the stomach.
- Yeah, you can snack with it, okay.
So, like with me, I'll take three pills,
and you do it three times per day-
- Okay.
- For three days.
- So every 8 hours, or something like that.
- Right, just divide it up throughout the day.
- I mean, just kind of split it up.
- When you wake up, lunchtime, and later on.
- And you're doin' it for three days, you said?
- Three days, and then you stop.
- Okay.
- If it's gonna do any good,
and this is a doctor that I had...
Unfortunately he left, moved to Chicago,
but, I really liked him, wanted to stay with him,
but, he gave me this protocol,
and he said, "If the ibuprofen is gonna help,
it's gonna take care of it in that amount of time."
- So what happens, after one day, it's feeling better,
do I stop?
- Actually, he always said continue the protocol.
- For the three days, no matter what.
- Right, because it's still not fully healed,
and it's still gonna have some benefits,
was his recommendation.
- So, let's say it's been helping for the three days,
can I keep going?
- He's saying that-
- No.
- No, it's done what it's gonna do,
by those three days.
And if you're not that pill-taking type,
you're gonna say, "Yeah, that makes sense,"
and it does make sense to me.
- This is really, actually, very good timing,
cause my wife's going through this exact same thing.
She's got her hamstring injury-
- Right.
- Which we've talked about many times.
And she'll go out and run,
and she just discovered that if she takes ibuprofen,
that she-
- Right, yeah.
- Doesn't have pain.
So I'm gonna put her on this protocol,
because yeah, after three days...
- Yeah, otherwise she may be takin' it for weeks and weeks.
- She'll just keep doin' it.
- And it's hard on your liver-
- Yep.
- It can be hard on some cardiac problems.
- And it's really not doing much benefit beyond that
is what you're saying.
- Right, yep, it can do more damage to your system.
A nice little trick,
this is a little inside secret.
- Okay.
- Quietly, though.
- All right.
- Okay, you know I got the jar of ibuprofen,
and you put it in your pocket,
and it makes noise?
Just take it out and take a little lunched Ziploc bag,
and put in a bunch of pills in there.
You can put 'em in your pocket.
It's handy, so when you're at work,
you can pull 'em out,
and it just makes it convenient,
and you know how that can be.
- And then if you forget what the pills are,
there's websites that identify pills.
People identify them.
- Yeah, I take a Sharpie and then I mark on the-
My wife called me on that,
she's like, "No one"-
- Oh, on the plastic?
- Yeah, I mark it on there.
You know, normally you would put beef steak
and what date you put it on,
I put ibuprofen and...
- Well, then she probably slips in some other pills
to get rid of Brad.
All right, that's how we do it.
- That life insurance policy's looking good.
- So-
- Take care.
- Thanks for watchin'.