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♪ The two most famous ♪
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- Hi 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.
- Do you need pain medication daily,
if so, try these seven things instead,
plus we're doing a giveaway Brad.
- Oh wow,
I thought you were asking me that question at first.
- So if you are new to our channel,
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we provide views on how to stay healthy, fit,
pain-free and we upload every day.
Also go to bobandbrad.com, go to the giveaway section,
this week we are giving away a TENS unit,
we'll talk about this in the video.
- Absolutely.
- And you can also go to Facebook,
it'll be pinned to the top of the page.
Did I say go to the giveaway section?
- I think so.
- Also, you can go to Instagram, Twitter, or Tik ToK,
if you want a 60 second version of our program.
- There you go.
- And what else do we have Brad?
- Well, we're having a podcast, everybody podcasts.
- Yeah, we're podcasting, yup.
- All right.
- All right, so, we're not saying that, you know,
necessarily that you're gonna
be able to stop your medications, your meds, your pain meds,
but maybe you can lessen the amount that you use.
- Exactly.
- And in some case, maybe stop them.
- That's right.
- We'll hope for the best here,
so, let's go through these seven things, Brad.
Number one, movement.
Now, no matter what body part you're having trouble with
it's gonna be very helpful,
very often, to get some movement in it.
- Right.
- If you don't have a fracture or something like that.
- Right, there are exceptions of course,
but you know, typical aches and pains that,
especially if you get up in the morning and it's worse.
- Right.
- Probably as a result of being sedentary
or still all that time.
- Stiff all night long.
- And then we got to get some movement,
get the juices goin', and it can really decrease that.
- Yeah, it'll get the blood flow going
and oxygenation to the area, and the thing is,
we can't go over every body part right now to tell you what,
but the rule of thumb is
you're gonna try to find a movement that doesn't hurt.
- Right.
- So like, let's say your neck pain,
it hurts when you go like this,
maybe it hurts when you go like this,
but it feels okay when you turn to the left,
and maybe it feels okay, going back,
that's what you're gonna work on,
goin' to the left for awhile, just,
you're getting some movement, the joints are moving.
- Right.
- You're getting this synovial fluid,
and eventually you try to the right again.
- Right.
- And see if it does feel any better, same with the back,
same with the hips, same with the knee, you know,
we got videos on this, but you know, don't discount this,
it's amazingly how much this can help.
- Right, yeah, if you go to Bob and Brad,
Google the joint or the body part, insert pain reduction,
you'll more than likely come into our videos
with a range of motion exercises.
- All right, the next one is a TENS unit, and that's the,
what we're giving away this week,
we're giving away the 8080.
We really like this one because this one is rechargeable,
so you don't have to keep buying batteries,
fairly reasonable price,
and it also has electrical muscle stimulation,
which is a, if you want it to stimulate the muscles too,
there's some cases where that is helpful too.
- Right, it's in there, it's an option,
and you know, it's got good power.
- Yeah, very good power.
- So yeah, we've, we've endorsed them
for a number of years now, we're happy with them.
- Now you probably wonder what TENS are so it's
Transcutaneous Electrical Neuro Muscular Stimulation,
that really helps doesn't it?
- Yeah, that's a mouthful, it's pain management, basically.
- Yeah, it is, it's, it's a way of what it hopes to do is,
it's cutting off the pain path.
- Right.
So if you're getting the pain signal
from your knee to your brain,
it tries to cut off that pain signal
so that you have less pain.
- And to get a lot of detail on that,
just go to bobandbrad.com, we do have.
- Oh yeah, we have a whole series of videos on TENS, yeah.
- Right, just go to the.
- Program section.
- Program section, go to TENS section,
and it will have a list of videos,
and we have printouts for.
- Yup.
- A review of each video, it's absolutely free,
there's no email, no nothing, it's just a real handy GIF.
- Yeah, that's really comprehensive.
- Right.
- And that will show you how to use it,
where to put it for whatever problem you have,
it's really helpful, and TENS really can help some people,
there's definitely cases where they've
actually been able to eliminate the medication.
- Right, or people that don't tolerate the pain meds.
- Right.
- Because of whatever reason, this is oftentimes the option.
- Sure, another thing, we're going to the old schooler Brad,
number 3, just good old ice pack,
you know, it's amazing,
like Brad uses the ice pack on his back, a lot.
- Well, you got, I have one in each freezer.
- Sure.
- You just gotta have packs in your house.
- Well, how often do you say you do it?
- Well, it all depends.
- Twice a week?
- Not so much, I can go twice a week,
but if I behave myself and don't do silly things
that make my back sore then it'd be less than that.
- Now, we also, you can actually, actually make your own.
- Oh yes.
- Ice pack too, Brad,
do you want to give the recipe of yours?
- Yeah.
- Do you remember?
- Well, yeah, if you go to DYI,
Bob and Brad they'll show you.
- Yeah, sure.
- But it's 1 cup of rubbing alcohol,
4 cups of water into a Ziploc freezer bag, get the air out,
mix it up, double bag it, put it in the freezer flat,
and the next morning you'll have a nice cold pack,
and actually, I think they work as well as these.
- Sure.
- If not even better sometimes, and they're a lot cheaper.
- Very inexpensive,
especially if you have the rubbing alcohol at home already,
and the freezer bag somewhere.
- Right, well I had one person use Jack Daniels once,
a patient, yeah, and then it broke open on him too.
- Oh, it didn't work?
- Well, it worked, but he didn't bag it properly.
- Oh sure, sure.
- Didn't use the freezer bag.
- He was probably trying to drink it is what happened, so.
- I didn't ask.
- All right, so we're always to save you money here,
so number 4 is, if you wanna put some heat on the area,
now these, these actually,
these are from MyRelief too Brad by the way.
- Oh sure.
- These are hot and cold therapy packs,
so you can also heat these up in a microwave.
- Right, yup?
- So.
- Don't put them in there too long, read the directions,
but yeah, and they heat up pretty quick,
and then you got a nice, nice warm pack.
- But, if you wanna save money again,
if you've got some cook minute rice around in the house,
you can go ahead and stick it into a sock.
- You don't have to cook it first, do you?
- No.
- Put it in there raw.
- I think it's pre cooked or something.
- Whatever, right from the store.
- Uncooked or pre-cooked, so anyway,
it's got the right rice in here,
and you can go ahead and heat it up in the microwave,
and then, you know, you can put it on your head.
- I've had a lot of patients use these and it's,
especially if it's a temporary thing,
you don't want to have to
use it for long term you can use that,
and I don't know what else
you could do with it when your done,
but yeah, they conform, well, they hold the heat well.
- You know what we used it for, my wife,
worked really well, shut up now, is she put it on her ear,
she was having an earache and it was just, you know,
it was warm enough that it wasn't too hot.
- Yeah.
- But it was really comforting.
- I could see where you could.
- Yeah, It was comfortable too.
- 'Cause they conform and they squish,
it's kind of like memory foam in a way.
- Yeah, and it was like, the nice smell.
- We better go on, people are.
- Okay, number 6, stretching,
oh, number five, I'm sorry, breathing.
- Oh yes.
- Now there's a reason that in Lamaze class
you learn breathing to help manage the pain with labor,
because, my wife was a good experiment of one here,
she actually, the first time, our first child,
we have three children, the first child,
we did not buy into it for some reason,
oh, you know, this was years ago.
- Who needs it, you're young.
- Ya, who needs it, she had so much pain, and they're like,
you know, she'd had so much trouble, man, the second one,
we bought into it totally, and it was like night and day,
like, I mean, it was still bad, but it was so much better,
you know, she wasn't swearing at me.
- You felt better too then.
- I felt better too, yes I did.
- So there's a lot of different breathing methods,
there's the 4, 7, 8, where you breathe in for 4,
you hold for 7, then you out for 8, there's the 4, 4, 4, 4,
where you breathe in for 4, yup, out for 4,
breathe in for 4, hold it for 4,
breathe out for 4, hold it again for 4.
- Right, yeah, and if you put breathing, Bob and Brad,
we've got videos just on those.
- We're just trying to get people to our,
to watch our other videos today.
- Well Bob, we do have a good selection.
- And, you know, this video again was just an idea,
give you ideas out there,
that there are other ways to manage pain.
The other one, number 6 is stretching.
Pain very often comes from tight structures.
- Right.
- And you can go through the entire body
and give examples of that.
- Structures?
- Structures, like ligaments, muscles, tendons.
- Tissues.
- Tissues, yup, so you should, again, check out our videos,
but let, let's say, you know,
again if you're lacking motion, quite often,
and when that motion is restored, the pain goes away.
- Yeah. So stretching is something
you need to approach gently, don't get aggressive with it.
- You'll want to do it correctly, but if you see your knee,
for some reason one straightens all the way out
and the other one doesn't
and that's the one you got pain on,
you wanna get that motion back.
- Right.
- Or if it doesn't bend as far.
- Right.
- I mean, it's just as simple as that,
and you'll find out really, it can be amazing.
- Yeah, yup, we've been doing it for years.
- Number 7, correct posture, Brad and I, or positioning,
Brad and I talk about this all the time, you know,
we talk about chin tucks for the neck
and not sitting slouched, you know,
because your back and your spine
was designed to be in that strong position.
- Yup.
- So as soon as you go out of that, correct posture.
So not only do you have to worry about the spine
being in correct position,
even the shoulders and knees and the hips
can be in a bad position
where you're putting stress on them, like the shoulders,
you don't wanna sleep with your arms up over your head,
like on your stomach, 'cause you're at end range,
with your knees, you don't wanna stand
with your knees locked like this.
- Sure.
- If you do that for a long period of time
it's gonna squish that joint together
and really put a lot of stress on it,
and you'll start to have pain.
- Yeah, I got an example just the other night.
- Sure.
- Last week my wife was, she's got a shoulder problem,
she's laying in bed, and she was,
there was some body language I could tell.
- Lying in bed.
- I said, does your shoulder hurt, she said, yes,
and so I immediately ran up to the other bedroom,
came back with two pillows, positioned her properly,
and she said, oh, that feels a lot better.
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- It's a true story too, I didn't make that up.
- Brad scored some points.
- That's right, but it's true, I mean, just some pillows.
- It's amazing.
- Whether you're lying in bed or even in a chair,
for a shoulder, it's amazing, knees and hips too.
- Yeah, the pillow between the hips.
- Knees.
- Legs often works really well,
otherwise the hip is hooked over to the side.
- Right, yep.
- So really, again, can't say enough about it,
it can take you from pain to no pain just by position.
- Right, and make your, spouseling happier with you.
- Right.
- So it's a relationship builder too.
- Good relationship, bad relationship.
- Right.
- Broken heart, not broken.
- Right, which boils and brings it all down
to the end of the video.
- Brad and I can fix just about anything.
- Except for,
- A broken heart.
- But now we're startin' to get closer to it,
let me tell you.
- Well we're working on the fringes of it.
- Just need some pillows.
- All right thanks.