- (Music playing) Bob and Brad
the two most famous
physical therapists
on the internet.
- Okay, Bob, let's see how this goes
- Brad.
Oh God, that hurts Brad. Oww!
- Oh, Bob, just relax.
Let me do a little bit longer.
I'll probably be just fine.
I think it looks pretty cool.
It still hurts, Brad.
- It suck could any better.
Ow, owyayae (Bob expressing pain)
- Oh, maybe we should stop and get rid of this funnel.
- Maybe? Maybe? That's a good idea.
- Just something new Bob.
- Well, hi there folks.
Hi Bob sharp, physical therapist
- Brad honey physical therapist.
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- Oh, oh.
- And our Brad here feels some pain.
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- Exactly.
Bob met a tarsalgia.
You know it's kind of a big
big one of those big terms
- Big word.
- And what it really defines is having four foot pain
typically in the bottom
right in this area
It's not the only pain
that you get in this area from the common denominator
which you'll get to in a little bit.
Morton's neuroma, which I have.
- Right. Right
- And I experience that.
Just a little bit over
If you have bunions, you know, you can have bunions actually
on the side of the big toe.
- Your foot is getting squished together.
- Yep. You can have actually on either side of the foot
and actually you can get a bunion on top of the big toe
- Wow
- Right here
So all, all this kind of brings in everything in together.
And it's amazing
because you can get this from
- What are the main causes?
What are the main causes, Brad?
- Well, Bob, it boils down to
what we put on our feet,
- Right.
- Yeah. It it's, it's that simple
and it all has to do with aesthetics.
People like styles
People like to look good
- Yup.
- But it's all part
of the body has to take its toll on it.
So we're gonna show you
how this all works
Okay. So again, you saw Bob
- Right.
- with this funnel and I put it on his foot
and I'm tapping it to at the beginning of this video
And you wonder what the H are these people doing?
Well, what I'm doing is I'm actually forcing his foot
into this funnel, which you get smaller and smarter
and then you tap on it and it's like, no kidding.
That's gonna hurt.
And if you do it long enough
it's gonna squish your toes together into the little point.
And they're gonna start deforming pain.
You're gonna have all kinds of problems.
Just like Metatarsalgia.
- Right.
- Bunions.
- My wife did this for years and high heels.
- Yeah.
- So the heel is up.
- Yeah.
- And so gravity is forced into foot.
- Just wait Bob, just wait
- So Brad, what were you trying to simulate
with this horn or what do you
- This is...this is a funnel bottle
- Funnel. Heh.
- Yeah.
It works really well for getting, for, you know
funneling your oil or whatever.
- Right.
- But if you notice a taper on it, it's tapered.
Like a lot of shoes are.
And if we look at all these shoes and we got a number
that's like almost all of them are, you know?
And after reading Dr. Mark Cucuzzella's book on running,
he has a whole section
not just for running, but on footwear.
And he talks about the same thing
and it's changed my whole idea on shoes.
I'm gonna be buying for the future
because I have found that my toes on my left foot,
the third toe is actually going underneath.
- So it's getting jammed together,
- Yes, literally.
And it's like
I'm gonna have feet that look terrible in five more years,
if I keep this up.
- Let me tell you, Brad.
It all look great now.
- Yeah.
(both laughing)
- So the whole idea is this it's exactly.
Now sometimes you get an analogy that's really exaggerated
and you'll remember it.
- Yeah but if you look at a high heel, first off
you're jamming the toes together
but gravity is pushing that foot down.
Just like that hammer.
- Right? Every time you take a step,
that foot gets jammed in
and it's just like going, boom, boom, boom.
And women are not, you know, it's very, not popular
but very notable
that they have bunion problems by the time they're 40 to 50s
- Absolutely my wife wear these shoes
all of the time for work
- Right.
- When she's younger, bunion, I mean
and you wear 'em all the time,
don't you at home?
- Well, yeah.
My bunions are, I've got, 'em taken care of, so
but it's it doesn't stop there at these shoes.
- Right.
- I mean, look at, these are my running shoes.
- These are my running shoes.
- Yeah. The four foot is wide enough.
I get the quadruple.
So it wide enough here
- Right here.
- But it tapers off into the toes up here.
- Yup
- So we're still jamming those toes together.
Just like in the funnel.
- Yep.
- I mean, it, it's so bad.
These are my biking shoes.
You don't even walk in these
cause they've got cleats on
and they still put a point on 'em.
So they look pretty
- Why???
- I get, I get Morton's neuroma from biking
when I don't let walking
- Sure.
Because I don't have and as a matter of fact, I'm trying to
- You're jamming those by tarsals together
- Yeah. Exactly. Bob and you look at dress shoes
- Right
- They're worse
They're pointy.
- Pointy.
- Yeah. It's like, what's
- Cowboy boots
- Cowboy boots (laughing)
- Terrible.
- So let's take a look at some better footwear.
- Sure.
- You know, I actually got these cracks
and I thought they look kind of funny
but they're comfortable.
And one of the reasons they are comfortable
because they do have a little bit of these
- A real wide base
- Yep. Comes out wider and that's just the way they're made.
- Sure.
- So, you know, one good plug for, for
- The crack yeah.
- You know, there was three people that invented these and
I just read
about the history, but I can't remember it.
It's a good story though.
Anyways, these are,
these are the ones I got from Mark Cucuzzella's store.
- Yep.
- But you can get 'em, I don't,
online or wherever you get 'em
- Online, I get these on Amazon.
- Yep.
So look at the box on the toll box.
It's very, very wide.
And look at how these are minimal issues
- Yes
- they have zero drop, which means that
- No heel.
- Yeah. The heel is the same thickness there as it is here.
So your foot stays level.
- Now you have to adapt these.
I mean, you can't just go out and buy these and go running.
- Right.
- You, I, I,
- Or walking.
- Right.
I've been wearing these now for months just walking.
- Yep.
- I still run with these because
eventually I will go to these.
- Right.
And actually you can get the zero drop shoes
with the wide tow box and you can get the ones
that have thick insert, but all the way across so
that you can go running or walking on trails.
And that if you's step on a stone, it, it feels
- This one's pretty thick.
- Yeah. Yeah.
That one is, yeah.
That one is definitely a little thicker than that.
- I really like these
- I started wearing mine,
like Bob says, you just don't put these on
and wear 'em all day long.
You wear 'em for a few hours at a time.
- Especially for older folk like us
- Sure. You can maybe adapt
- Bob, Bob
you have to remind me I'm gonna be the sick solo this year.
- Yeah.
- But I, I ran for mine for the first time yesterday.
I went a mile and a half.
- Oh you did?
- Yeah.
But when I first start wearing it was the first time,
I went up to a full day.
I was getting at the end of the day
going up and downstairs, I was getting toe cramps.
- Sure.
- And it's because the muscles
and the bottom of the foot are being exercised
like they were meant to be exercised
and they're getting stronger.
So your foot becomes stronger.
Now, if you have a foot that already is deformed
and you have some foot problems already
you may not be able to go to this.
- Right.
- May be, you have to stick
with your customer or the shoes with the arch supports.
But if you got a reasonably healthy foot, you know
I'm so far, I think this is a really good idea.
At least,
- Well, just the base of me, Brad, you know
I've been doing this for months.
Yeah. And I haven't run yet with these.
I mean, maybe I'll run a hundred yards.
You are already running a mile.
That's Brad. One year Brad.
- Normal, you know?
- Yes.
- But anyway, here we go one step further.
- Sure.
- If you're at this point where you have toes
like mine that were literally crossing
I can show you.
This toe right here is going underneath this toe
- Yup I can see it
- It's not too bad yet.
It's gonna get worse.
- It's gonna get worse,
- I'm thinking I'm not gonna go through surgeries
and have toe feet that look like on other old people.
So I decided to go one step further
and start with the tall separators
- Right.
- Now, this is interesting.
But we have two different types of
- Right.
- Bob has some very large ones.
- Yep.
- That really separate the toes
can you
- My wife, she, at first couldn't even get these on Brad.
- Sure.
- She had the water on and
- Well she's been squishing her feet in the shoes more.
- Yes.
- Terrible bunions.
- Yeah.
- And she got these and I, she is amazed.
She can now walk with them.
She'll walk around in the morning with the mom.
- Right. Right.
- She, she loves these
- Because it makes her feet feel better.
Is that it?
- Well, you could, we took a picture.
I should have had that actually and showed her toes before.
And now after this starting to come out
- You can balance better
when your finger wider part, everything,
- Less pain
- The mechanics of the foot work properly when your toes
aren't all scrunched in.
They're moving apart.
- Yeah these were just off the Amazon.
- Yep.
- These, I actually got, these are made same thing,
except for they're not quite as wide.
And these are literally made
for walking and running all day long.
- Sure.
- I have worn my,
- These are not.
- Yep. Those are you.
Maybe wear in the morning or the evening.
- Right
- So these are a little narrower you can customize these
I've trimmed these up.
So they're more comfortable and they're made to do that.
You can put, there's a spacer in here
so you can put some cloth in there to make it wider
on the big toe and the pinky toe.
- Sure.
- Again
so there's different varieties that you can get, but
- Right.
- You know, it's amazing.
I'm feeling so much better about my feet.
I was a little depressed there
for a while that my one toe is going underneath.
- Well, they're huge.
I mean, feet, not your feet
- Well, they are a little
- But, I mean, the fact is
if you can't walk,
you know, it takes everything else out of play.
- It all boils down to the funnel shoe and how you deal
with it.
So keep that in mind when you're buying your shoe.
- Now you can use that as a ear thing
so you can hear people
- Yeah.
Or you can do this.
(blows the funnel)
- All right.
That sounds crazy
- Alright. Good luck with your feet and keep him healthy.