♪ Bob and Brad, the two most famous ♪
♪ physical therapists ♪
♪ on the internet. ♪
- Hi folks, I'm Bob Schrupp physical therapist.
- Brad Heineck, physical therapist
- Together we are the most famous physical therapist
on the internet.
- In our opinion, of course, Bob.
- So we wanna show you a few stretches and mobs
for your feet.
Try the ones,
and if they work for you, keep doing them.
If they don't, cast them aside.
- What's a mob?
- A mobilization.
- Okay.
- So we're actually getting in and really moving the joints.
- Right.
Versus just stretching the muscle.
- Right.
- Or the tendon.
Yep.
- Let's start out with the first one. This is one that
we got for my wife actually,
they're called Yoga Toes.
- Ah, yes.
- We're not endorsing them or anything,
but they seem to work.
I got on mine, my feet right now.
A lot of people have this problem because,
and we'll get into it on on number two,
but your feet get squished together.
- [Brad] In the shoe.
- [Bob] In the shoe.
- Right. The toe box is too narrow.
- Especially if you're wearing high heels.
- Or this part.
Yeah.
Like this shoe doesn't have that tapered look,
like this one, which is very common, particularly
with shoes that you wear for dress,
for looks, the aesthetics.
- And running shoes quite often.
- Yep.
- Will have that narrow toe belt box.
- That's right.
So when I get, I just cut this open so I can flap.
I'm just kidding.
- That would work.
But also if you have flat feet,
it might also cause you to have a bunion,
which causes the greater toe
to get pushed over to the second toe.
- Right.
So the big toe.
Yeah.
- Yeah, this big toe gets pushed over to the second toe.
- Yeah, because some people may not know technically
it's the great toe.
- Oh sure.
Not the big toe.
- Yes, the great.
- So, I've got these in place right now.
I don't have too much trouble with this anymore.
My wife had a terrible time with a bunion.
- [Brad] Yeah.
- [Bob] And her toes were crossing over,
and it took her a long time to even get
it in place the first time.
Actually have to put water on 'em
to help them slide in.
- [Brad] Just a little lubricant there.
Can, did you, you got, oh, Mike's zooming in on it.
Yeah.
- [Bob] And I can actually walk on these now,
where my wife took a long time before she could do that.
But, she's, it's straightened your toes out.
I'm amazed.
- [Brad] Did she sleep with them?
- [Bob] No, no.
- [Brad] So you just wear it like an hour at night?
- She wears it like an hour in the morning,
an hour at night.
- [Brad] Yeah.
Does, and you said she can walk on them now?
- She can walk on them now, yep.
And she doesn't need water to
lubricate them anymore.
- Sure.
To get them on.
They slip on.
So, I'm assuming the idea is you,
you wear those like that a couple hours a day.
- Right.
- It gets shoes with wider toe box.
- Yep.
- So things are.
- Yeah.
Like Brad showed, you want to get
a shoe with a wider
toe box,
because I'm sure, that would be the easy way of saying it.
- Yeah.
- And it's gonna be a lot more comfortable,
and less stylish, I would say unfortunately, but.
- Well, your styles will change.
You gotta be ahead of this style.
- That's right.
- It's really important.
You'll be hopping through though.
- All right.
And I would say that's good for most people.
Now, we can also work on the fascia.
Which is a tough material on the bottom of your foot.
And a good way to work on that is using a golf ball.
- Yeah, the old golf ball.
- I like the golf ball because you can hit the spots
that are bad.
- Sure.
- You know, there's some spots that are,
eh, they're okay.
I don't need to work on that.
But this is gonna focus on the areas that you need to.
- [Brad] There.
So, I'm gonna get on there and, and work it.
Oh.
Yeah, the golf ball's about the right diameter.
- [Bob] Yeah, it is.
It can be very aggressive.
If it's really painful,
go around that spot
and work towards it eventually.
- Yeah.
Yeah, you can feel it.
Get into there.
- I'll, as an alternative,
you can actually do some self massage.
So, you go to the bottom of your foot and you can actually,
I take my thumbs, probably the best way.
And you can do little circles like this.
You just lost your ball.
- [Brad] Ah
- [Bob] Like this.
- [Brad] That happens.
- [Bob] And then you can do splaying.
Splaying means you put your thumbs together
and you pull them apart,
thumbs together, pull them apart.
Thumbs together, pull them apart.
- We really wanna get that fascia moving,
because you're stuck in that shoe all day long
and it doesn't get the movement that
it needs to have good circulation.
- Yeah, if you have plantar fasciitis,
that's one of the massages you're gonna probably wanna do.
The last one, you can actually take a massage gun,
I gotta see if I can pull this out.
- Ugh.
- An astute person might have done that before the video.
- Yeah, I know.
(laughing)
- I might use a little one.
- This one actually, this head actually works pretty good.
It's a flat head,
and it glides right along the bottom of the foot.
Now Brad, why don't you show the circle?
- [Brad] Yeah.
So, this is a little smaller gun,
which works actually good for the foot.
- [Bob] The nice thing about the massage guns,
it's very effortless and
it's kind of fun.
Feels good.
- [Brad] It does.
- [Bob] And you don't have to wear out your hands.
- Yes, exactly.
- You solve your foot problem,
and then you end up with a hand problem.
- Not with the a gun though.
- Not with the gun.
- So with the round head, I like,
you can vary the intensity by,
if you watch me here I go straight in,
that's more aggressive.
If you go sideways, and actually, much less aggressive,
but it still does what it needs to do.
So, it gives you that option.
Ooh.
Yep.
And these all have five speeds of intensity.
- Right. And one of the big advantages of having a gun
is of course you can use it anywhere
on a body just about, you know.
- Yeah, yeah.
- I mean, so if you're in,
as you get older, like Brad and I are experiencing,
you are going to find spots
your body is going to need a massage.
- Yeah.
You're just not gonna use it on your neck.
- Right.
- Everywhere else is pretty good.
- It really pounds too much
to be on the neck and the head.
Oop, excuse me.
- Oh, bless you.
- Where'd that come from?
And from the head too.
So, all right.
That's the five recommendations we have for you.
- Is that it?
We got no more?
- Well, unless you think, can think of something,
but it's probably not any good.
So.
- I like walking on cold floors,
like after I wear running.
- I knew it wouldn't be any good.
(laughing) - You know, just a cold.
- Why don't you just go back outside in the snow? All right.
Thanks guys.
- Whim Hoff does that.
- Yeah.
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