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- Hi folks, I'm Bob Schrupp, physical therapist.
- Brad Heineck, physical therapist.
- And we are the most famous physical therapists
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- Alright, today Brad,
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So over the years,
Brad and I have been using
massages and massage guns.
- Right.
- And unfortunately,
I have gotten a lot of these things
like some torn muscles
or strained muscles.
[Brad Laughs]
- Sure
- And I've used it
so I'm can give a firsthand account of that.
- Sure.
- And also we've been using on patients.
- Right.
- And interesting enough,
a number of a lot of the patients actually
prefer the massage over hands sometimes.
- Sure.
- And, but this is where I feel like
I've had the most success on this list of 10.
- Right.
I agree, Bob, you know, initially
when these guns came out
and we started using them,
I don't know, five, six years ago,
I was a little skeptical on them,
but then when patients,
like you said, prefer them, they like them.
And I tried them out.
I've got one in my basement with my workout room
and it's become a part of my routine.
- It's a staple of your life, yeah.
So let's go over the list.
First thing, piriformis syndrome,
I have really found this works
is the treatment of choice.
When someone has piriformis syndrome,
in addition doing stretches.
The piriformis, if you look into it,
this is a pelvis of someone facing the wall.
- Right.
- Brad's going to put it just like that.
So the piriformis muscle attaches to the sacrum
underneath here actually
and it fans out
and attaches over to the greater tronchater.
What happens is,
- Yeah, it's a small muscle.
It's kind of flat like a pancake,
but it's long and finlike
- I think almost triangular shaped a little
- Yeah. a little bit.
I think that'd be like,
- Rectangular, obtuse
or rectangular thing kind of a thing.
But the thing is that
at times all these nerves come together
and form the sciatic nerve
and they travel either underneath it,
they might even pierce it.
- Yep.
- But that muscle can tank over that nerve.
- Yeah.
- It'd be a pain.
- Right,
if it knots up
and puts pressure on it,
there you go.
There can cause sciatica.
- One guy has theory in fact that
a lot of times this muscle tightens up
in response to sciatica.
- Right.
- So you actually have that after.
So anyway, we get a massage in that area.
You gotta to hit.
I don't know.
We got five different heads here.
It's going to depend on your tolerance.
You're probably going to start
with the airfield.
- Yeah.
It's not so aggressive and he can always get more aggressive
if you need to.
- Do you wanna
(Bob Chuckles)
show it, Brad?
- Yeah.
As a matter of fact,
I use this in the same area for my piriformis,
but also for my SI
joint is probably the reason you could,
I got all black here.
Can you see lives?
I mean, this would only be an option.
You don't have to
I would probably do this.
[Bob] - I would probably lie down
- Yeah.
- I would probably lie down
- Yeah
- And so it's in his position of maximum comfort.
- Yeah
There you go.
- Yeah He's sitting in a while now.
And again, you could start off with the airfield one
and then work to the point or one.
And, with all these,
whenever you're doing massage with this gun,
you can start by working around the painful area.
- Right.
- And eventually go over the painful area.
- Yeah. I was just going to mention,
often times on that piriformis,
there's that one spot.
If it's really flared up,
you're probably not going to go on it right away.
- All right.
Let's go to the next one. Brad,
how about quadricep tendonitis?
So that's a right where the,
the muscle quadricep attaches into the knee cap.
There's a tendon there.
- I'll show my leg.
- Yeah kind of a wide base tendon right here.
- Right.
With a little kneecap,
all these quads,
it come up and connect right
on that junction, right there.
- So whenever I would do workouts or bending,
I'd start feeling it in there.
I felt it on both sides.
- And that's pretty typical for our tendinitis.
where the muscle connects to the bone.
- Now on this case,
I actually found out
that it worked good to work this area,
but I actually just would gently grind up against the bone.
(Brad chukles)
- I don't know if I liked that word.
- Massage massage, right.
- And then the thing about that is if you use,
I don't know if you use this head,
but you know,
you can use this round head
and you know,
use it horizontally as well to the side.
- Give that more cross frictional massage ooh.
Carry it I try it once again.
- So anyway, that worked out really well.
It took it down 90% in a few days.
- Sure.
- So number three, calf strain or tear.
I've had that,
that one took a long time.
I mean, for it to heal,
it's a pretty heavy muscle
that can be notorious for taking a long time.
- Plus it's hard to give it a rest sometimes.
Cause he got to watch,
- using all the time.
- Right, just to survive.
- I had to work on that twice a day.
I would do it before I would do a workout.
And then I would do it later in the day
just when I'm watching TV.
- Yeah
- So a groin pull.
So that's the HIPAA doctors, you know,
groin pull is often
there's five muscles there.
The most common one is the adductor longus.
Now you don't need to know any of that.
You just need to find a tender spot,
- All right.
- and you can work into that muscle
into that groin.
- Right.
As a matter of fact,
I've been working with that, but I believe it,
I've got that medial hamstring.
- I'll probably can seel us maybe, or,
- Again I, even as a therapist,
I'm not really concerned which muscles,
because I know which one where to go by the symptom.
- Yeah, exactly.
- Where it makes it feel good or it makes it relax.
And when I'm done
it definitely improved.
- We're moving right into the next
hamstring strain or tear.
(Brad chuckles)
These are bears 200 Braddock.
- Yes.
- I read somewhere it's actually
the most re-injured muscle.
- Right.
- And I would agree.
- A lot of people have setbacks on it
and Brad's been working with that
and you go
for a while
and I think you overdo it
- But that's not my personality, isn't it?
Yeah. It's either on or off,
but I'm mellowing out
over the last few years of my life, you know.
- All right.
Number six. I'm gonna actually switch this one Brad.
I'm going to talk about the hip flexor.
Cause I was having trouble with that.
Muscles that flex the hip,
they're going to show.
- I always say,
if you put your hand in your pocket,
it's right in there
and it's deep.
It's not on the surface.
Well, there is one hip flexor, the recognizes,
but the primer ileal.
So as they're deep inside the visceral,
the cavity there,
you gotta get in there deep.
- Right
- And that's where this can be beneficial.
- The best thing I use for this is
kind of pre-workout on that area.
It's not so much
I can get pain in that area,
but if I stretch it out really well by using the massage,
- Yeah
- ahead of time,
it seems to keep it down
- All right.
- when I'm working on it.
- So how about,
I had this one, two years ago Brad,
but I didn't, have a massage at that time.
I had a tricep strain
- Yap
- and a massage would work wonders on that.
Cause I was doing hand massage at that time.
Yeah. Just we're working across there.
A tennis elbow.
You want to talk about tennis elbow?
Sure, sure.
I've had that recent, you know,
over the years
and as well as a lot of patients,
probably one of the more,
not the most
but pretty commonly referred thing from the doctor.
- Upper extremity, one of the more common ones.
- So you typically on a patient,
I'll say you find that bone right there
and you palpate really a tender spot there.
So you're not gonna use the gun right on that
cause it's gonna send you through the roof,
especially if it's really flared up,
but you can
and you one will want to massage the muscles here
because there are others muscles that are putting stress
on that point.
Get these muscles to relax,
take the pressure off of that point.
And you're gonna have much better success.
- Sounds good.
Pectoralis major and minor.
I tore these ones.
I strained them once.
- Your body for injuries.
- I know. I know I.
You know, as I started going through this last time,
like, Oh my gosh,
but it took, that was another one easy
to reinsure,
- Sure
- with me because
I was actually working with a patient
and they had spastic legs
and I was trying to stretch them,
- Yeah,
- and tore it.
And then I read toward doing it again.
- Over the same patient?
- Same patient.
- Wow
- Again, you got to figure out which head you're gonna use
and you can do the Brad likes to do this one.
- It's like when you're a kid or you talk in front of a fan,
that's kind of the same thing here.
If you got kids,
they'll love this, sir.
(Brad chuckles)
- Alright. Last, don't let them play with it though.
I mean, it's nice.
If you have young athletes,
- they're just to call for that.
- I'm a tight IT band.
Now I'm not massaging the band itself.
I'm gonna massage the muscle that attaches to the band.
- Yeah. So the band is like,
if you look at the stripes on my pants,
literally right there goes just below the knee
and it comes up
and then the muscle is way up, here's the muscle.
- The muscle belly Lada
- But it's a wide band of all like this too.
- If you stretch out that muscle,
- Yap
it should loosen the band a little bit too.
- Right
- I suppose it wouldn't hurt to go down the band.
- I think you can do that.
- Yeah
- You just got to listen to your body,
- Right.
- and figure out,
does it feel like it helps?
When I do that.
- Right.
- That's a list of 10.
I was going to try to come up with 12
so I could call it the Dirty Dozen,
but I'm like,
(Brad chuckles) I didn't have more to throw on there.
So I kept it at that.
- Well, we could,
I think the plantar fascia
is a really good option for right
where it says lifetime.
- Yeah.
Well you're blocking the way I'll ask.
- Cause I was afraid I was going
to have that happen.
But again,
this is a kind of thing
we do always recommend cross friction,
- Right.
Massage on the plantar fascia,
and you know,
your fingers get tired
and your thumbs
within a couple minutes,
but they don't get so tired when you use this
- You know all day.
- Exactly.
- So Brad and I can fix just about anything,
- except for,
- broken heart,
but we'll work on it.
- This isn't going to help.
I don't think but we can give it a goal.
- Stay away from the heart away from the heart
with the massage.
Don't be doing that.
- You have to get a different massage gun.
Maybe we can invent one.
- Thanks for watching.
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