♪ Bob and Brad ♪
♪ The two most famous ♪
♪ Physical therapists ♪
♪ On the internet ♪
- Hi, there folks, 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.
- If you're still not sure if a TENS unit
will help your pain, try this instead.
We're giving you a different option here, Brad.
- And this is a really good option too.
- Yeah, so, the idea is you don't wanna to spend
all the money to see and then find out
it doesn't really work, so for 1995,
just a sale going on right now,
no, actually I'm just joking, I think it's always 1995.
The iReliev has a TENS mini pain relief patch.
It's extremely easy to use.
It'll give you a sense or not whether a TENS will help you.
I think if you try this, you find out it works,
try it for a while, try it for a month if you want
then if you find out it works, it helps you take,
maybe reduce your use of narcotics and such, opioids,
then you can go ahead and spend a little money
maybe on the 13/13 which is a fairly inexpensive unit too,
or maybe a 80/80.
- Yeah, so this unit is a test, you might say, well,
why don't we just use this all the time?
It doesn't have the options,
it only has one program instead of eight options
to pick from.
The battery, I believe the batteries don't last
as long as the other ones.
- Right.
- But, it's really good way to test 'cause some people,
TENS, they don't tolerate that electrical stimulation,
not that it doesn't work but I have had some patients
where they just don't tolerate it
and they don't wanna have anything to do with it.
But the ones that works really well on, then you jump
from this and get yourself one that's gonna
be more permanent and long term.
- Yeah, and Brad you like this one.
- Oh, yeah.
- Why don't you show, you got it on you right now, right?
- Yeah, so here's a pad.
- [Bob] It comes with two pads.
- Right, two pads, I have got the body of it,
their is two snaps right here, I've got it snapped on here.
I'm not gonna take it off now
because it's harder inside my skin.
But it very easily snaps on there.
There's a little like, I call them, little pancake battery.
It's like the battery that you put on a camera
or your watch whatever it maybe.
And to turn it on, you just hit the hand button
and it's going inside at a very low level right now,
there's 10 settings and I'm gonna hit it again
and then this go up and I've got it set
so that my muscles can contract just by the location
of where I have it on my wrist muscles.
So I'm not doing that, there's no pain whatsoever here.
It actually kinda tickles, but if I move
this on a different location on my arm,
I can get the same stimulation
without so much muscle contraction, but this way you can see
how it's working.
And so am on level two and now, I'm gonna go up to three,
and that's probably as high as I'm gonna go because--
- [Bob] It's still comfortable but it's not.
- Yeah, it's at that point where if I wanted
that a little higher, I would not be comfortable with it
and that's where you wanna work with TENS.
You wanna keep it comfortable and at that threshold
where becomes not comfortable 'cause it is more effective
for pain relief.
- [Bob] The thing about this, is there's not wires.
- [Brad] Right.
- [Bob] You can conceal it, and I think you are surprised
how powerful it is, Brad?
- [Brad] Yeah, actually 'cause I'm on level three there
and it goes up to 10.
- [Bob] Yeah, so I mean you couldn't get close to put it on.
- And if I did have, lets say that golfers elbow
and I had this, I'd probably move it up here
a little bit for that.
- Yeah, I'd probably put it right over the pain to stop.
- Yeah, and then there you go, you put your sleeve over it,
nobody knows it and you gonna leave it on
for about typically half hour up to an hour.
You don't wanna leave it on all day long.
Then you turn it off, and then the benefits
of the pain relief continues for another 30
to 60 minutes after that depending on the individual
and the situation. - Yeah, if they stimulate some
of those natural endorphins--
- Right, exactly.
- They could continue afterwards.
The pad is 2.3 inches by three inches in size,
so just to give you an idea.
So, again, just an option here if you've been on the fence
about using the TENS unit, maybe this will knock you off
the fence and act as positive sign.
- Yeah, you gonna know if you respond well to it
and have success or not.
So it's a good test unit.
- Thanks for watching everybody.