♪ 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 therapists
on the internet.
- In our opinion of course, Bob.
- Indeed, Brad we're gonna talk about step by step how
to use a simple, inexpensive TENS unit for pain control.
We're gonna show the iReliev 1313.
- Excellent job Bob.
- All right, so here we are,
we're gonna jump right into it.
- Zoom in there Mike.
- So this is a small unit.
A small pack, very powerful though.
It need three double A batteries.
How are you doin' on the focus Brad?
Okay--or Mike.
It's a TENS unit.
It's not a EMS unit.
It does not have electrical muscle stimulation.
In other words, it's for pain control.
It is not for retraining muscle
or muscle relief.
You talked about that right Brad?
- [Brad] Right, after a train you get sore muscles
you can use it for that.
But it's a pain management unit.
- [Bob] And as you can see it's got wires
and I have it hooked up to two pads on my arm.
You can put up to four pads, and two leads on here at once.
'Cause it's got two channels.
All right, can I start Mike?
All right, so first you're gonna hit the on button.
That's the top button right here.
And it comes on board here.
And now I'm gonna choose,
make my choices here.
So I hit the mode button,
and the first thing that flashes is the number of minutes.
So you can take that up or down
by hitting negative or positive.
So I'm gonna take it all the way up to 60 minutes.
And then I hit mode again,
and that locks it in place.
Now I go to the program section.
How many programs are there Brad?
- [Brad] Eight, Bob. Eight.
- Yeah, and if you want a description of the programs,
of what each program does.
Go to the PDF that's along with this on our website.
Https://bobandbrad.com/
Under this program section, and it'll have a printout
of all the programs.
So it'll tell you what they are.
- [Bob] It's in the literature with the box too.
- It's in the literature with the box too.
Exactly.
So I'm gonna hit mode one more time.
There's time again.
I'm gonna hit mode, there's program,
I'm gonna leave it on two.
And I hit it again.
So now I'm ready to go.
It's all set.
I'm on program number two.
It's set for 60 minutes.
I'm gonna go channel one,
'cause that's the channel I have hooked up.
If I wanted to do channel two, I'd hit channel two.
That would be over here.
I hit channel one, and zero starts flashing.
So I'm gonna take up the intensity.
And I'm gonna show you what's happening here.
My hand isn't twitching on purpose here.
It's actually innervating the muscles here.
Can you just pan down a little bit Mike?
Just to see what my, yeah.
So that's still comfortable Brad.
- [Brad] Sure.
- But it's probably a little bit annoying
if you're trying to work throughout the day.
- [Brad] Right.
You can move the pads on your skin
so you can hopefully get the muscles not to twitch.
So where you put the pads
can make a difference on muscle contraction.
- [Bob] Now, once it's on for a while
it's gonna lock in place.
So if you can see, that nine is not flashing.
So even if I go lower, it won't go lower.
So I have to go channel one again.
And then it starts flashing again.
And then I can take it down.
And now you can see it's not twitching as much.
But you're gonna have to mess around
with the settings.
You're gonna have to find out which one works best for you.
It really varies quite a bit.
The other thing I wanna warn you,
is that when you try the unit for the first time
on a different setting,
don't take up the intensity too quick.
Start, just go up to one or two
and then let it go through its cycle.
Because sometimes it's on a low part of its cycle.
And then all the sudden it ramps up to the high part
of its cycle and if you have it on too high of a intensity,
it might be a little shock to ya, I mean.
- [Brad] Yeah, if you're experiencing the low intensity,
and automatically it goes through that cycle
it has nothing to do with you pushing the button,
it'll go up to the high one.
And yeah, it'll make you open your eyes.
(chuckles)
Yeah, like Bob says, take your time with it and go slow.
- [Bob] I'm gonna show you one final thing.
Let's say it's on channel one.
And it's still flashing 'cause I wanna take it up.
Now let's say that you decide
that you wanna turn this unit off.
Well, if I hit off it's just gonna take the intensity down.
So if you want to turn it off,
what you do is hit channel one again.
Well no, I'm sorry, hit mode again.
I apologize.
Hit mode and then it'll stop flashing
and then you can hit off.
And then the unit will turn off.
Off she goes.
So a pretty simple unit.
I hope I didn't make it sound too confusing.
There are instructions that are along with it
that'll help you through this.
And all the units are similar.
You know, so if you have a basic understanding of this one
you have a basic understanding of their other types too.
- Yeah, and we're gonna have another video on--
- On each type.
- On where you put the electrodes.
- Oh yeah, where to put the electrodes.
- Yeah. - Okay.
So, all right thanks for watching.