- Today, we're gonna talk about, Brad,
a walker that is pure genius.
- (laughs) Excellent!
- Come inside.
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♪ the two most famous ♪
♪ physical therapists on the internet ♪
- Hi, 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.
- Okay, Brad.
Today, as we mentioned already, we gave a little teaser.
We're gonna talk about the Hugo four-wheeled walker.
And we've got some surprises here.
- Yeah, this is a design that I've never seen before.
And we don't promote products unless we really like 'em.
- Right. - And we really like this.
- This is an engineering wonder.
So we're gonna start off by showing
some of the features here.
And let's go ahead and get started.
- You bet.
- The first one is
just to show you how easily this folds up.
This is what I call the one-finger fold.
You take one finger.
Boom.
- Now lift it up.
- And, well, there's a little clip here too, Brad,
that you can clip around to-
- Oh, to hold it.
Sure. - Yeah, to hold it together.
- Yeah, let's get it so they can see that right there.
- Right, then you can lift it up with one hand.
- All aluminum construction on the frame.
Very well built on that frame.
I'm really happy with that.
- All right, the second feature, Brad,
I'll have you handle that,
is this thing actually converts to a transport chair.
- Sure.
- Which is, this is the most amazing part of it.
So are you getting all this, Lonnie, by the way?
Okay.
- [Brad] So you're talking about the wheelchair?
- Yeah, the wheelchair, the transport chair.
- [Brad] Right, so this way.
- Can, yeah. - It's a walker.
- It's a walker, right. - Okay?
But if you want to convert it to a wheelchair,
or actually it is in the wheelchair position already, Bob.
- Oh, it is? - Yeah.
- Well, not completely. - Right.
- But- - Look at that.
- [Bob] There we go.
That was the walker position.
- Right. So if you want to sit down when you're walking,
we've got the hand brakes.
We can sit and relax on a real nice backrest.
And go ahead and try and push me around, Bob.
This is what normal chairs are like.
And you really can't do it,
it gets in the way.
Yeah.
You know, it's like, you know,
maybe if you're married.
But this design, you flip this over
and it becomes a wheelchair.
- [Bob] Well, show the leg rest, Brad.
- Yeah, I'm getting to it, Bob.
- Oh, you are. - Hold on.
Hold on, look at this.
'Cause if you have someone that needs,
has weak legs and you want to get 'em up, you know?
And their legs do not get up
because they're a little weak or they have some issues.
Look at this, they got detent-ed clips here.
They lock in very easily.
Put the feet up here, these are adjustable.
No wrench is needed.
You just squeeze here.
Look at that, three different positions.
I am a little taller,
so I think I'll adjust both down to the lowest.
Like, oh, that fits perfect. - Excellent.
- [Brad] Go ahead, Bob.
Give me a little push.
- [Bob] And now it's just like having a regular wheelchair.
- This is, this is really nice.
- [Brad] And we'll talk about why this would be,
the advantages with certain people.
- Sure.
- [Bob] Now the other thing,
what Brad is showing here, when you lock this here,
is there's actually some little platforms here
that you can push off of when you-
- Sure. - When you're gonna get up.
- Right.
So we always tell people as therapists, you know,
reach back for wherever you're gonna sit on
so you don't plop into the chair.
Okay, so right here, we got kind of mini arm rests,
and you can lower yourself in.
And there you go. - Right.
Now, the third feature is also one
that I think is one of the most critical, Brad.
On one of these walkers, the old walkers.
- Standard four-wheeled walker.
- Yeah, if you're trying to,
we did a whole video on how to adjust the brakes.
- Right.
- And Brad showed it, 'cause Brad's very mechanical.
I still don't remember how you did it.
I mean, it's very difficult.
- It's not very difficult.
I mean, you- - It's very difficult.
- If you're good with the wrenches or something,
get some handy person.
You usually need a wrench or some pliers is all.
- But show 'em on this one, Brad.
Do you wanna flip it?
- Sure.
Let's just bring them right up here.
- [Bob] Okay.
- Here, they've got a plastic,
it's a self-sliding ratchet.
So you push in so it interlocks,
and then you just turn it like this,
and they turns real easy.
You can go either direction.
So adjust the brakes. - Make it tighter or looser.
- Exactly.
If the cable does stretch too much and you overdo that,
then you can readjust that some more with some wrenches.
But I don't think you'll need to,
this really takes care of that.
And I've already worked with them and it works really nice.
I've adjusted it too loose.
And I readjusted it all right here with my fingers.
- That's a huge feature because these brakes,
well, we have found in a lot of these cheaper chairs
or cheaper walkers,
is that they seem to come loose all the time.
- Well, the cables stretch,
and that's just a normal function of cables.
So I don't know if that's necessarily
means they're cheaper,
but- - It happens.
- Yeah, it always happens.
And this makes it easier to adjust.
The other thing, Bob,
I really wanted to point out was,
watch this.
In a normal wheelchair, when you flip out the leg rest,
this is what happens. They always get in the way.
You go through a door and they bump into things.
And here, look at this.
- It's very- - Compact.
- Compact. - Yeah.
- And the width, and that is a-
- It's outta the way.
And it's locked in now.
- [Brad] Yep.
And that is a major functional, you know, option.
- [Bob] I'd like to see that on wheelchairs.
- [Brad] (laughs) Yeah.
'Cause we always have that,
bumping into the walls and getting through doorways.
- By the way, Brad and I should qualify ourselves.
I mean, we've worked with hundreds of, probably,
four-wheel walkers and walkers.
- Right.
- I mean, we're working with these
all the time with our patients.
So the next feature we'll go to, Brad,
is the very large wheels.
I mean, as we'll talk about later,
comparing it to another walker,
these wheels are so critical,
especially when you go outdoors.
- Sure.
- [Bob] I mean, when you got the smaller wheels
you're just running into problems.
Everything's solid.
And everything's, you know, you are running into,
trying to get up over ledges and stuff.
- Right, right. - So really nice rubber,
large wheels.
Comfortable handles.
Any comments, Brad? - Yeah, those are really nice.
I mean, usually most of 'em have,
like this is not a bad four-wheeled walker.
And it's got handles that are nice.
But these are cushioned
and even more ergonomically designed.
- [Bob] Yeah.
You know, formed for the hand.
You know, what we have found, with a lot of people,
we've had to take lambs wool and wrap it around sometimes.
- [Brad] Sure.
- And with these, these are already nice and comfortable.
So that issue would be addressed.
They've thought about everything.
This was very easily assembly.
There was basically,
you had to put these two knobs on
to help to adjust the handles.
- Right. - And that was very easy.
You had to put two bolts in here,
and they gave a wrench along with that.
- Right.
- [Bob] An Allen wrench and a wrench to put that on.
And then you had to put the two leg rests on.
- Yep. - That was it.
- [Brad] Piece of cake.
- [Bob] So, you know, it came like this.
- Right. - You know, so, in the box.
- [Brad] The other thing I thought was really neat.
Bob, why don't you have a seat in there?
Bob, how tall are you?
- [Bob] I'm six foot six.
- [Brad] Six foot six.
And he sits down and it fits him quite well.
- Yep. - Okay?
And we could, you know, push you around
and we could put this-
- Put the leg rests up. - Put the leg rests out,
there we go. - It fits me really well.
- Now on the other hand, Lonnie,
do you want to come out here?
- Yeah, let's get Lonnie here.
- We've got someone who is five foot two,
and we'll put her in the same chair.
Go ahead,
I'm not gonna take the time to flip that out right now.
- [Bob] And Lonnie-
- And it still fits her reasonably well.
I mean, that's a big contrast.
Can you lift your feet up?
There you go.
And that one, there you go!
The other thing is,
as she'd be trying to get over a threshold,
I hope we see this.
There's a little foothold here
so that you can push down,
and you can just get a little-
- [Bob] Yeah, that's a big feature.
- You can just get a little weight off of the front.
If you're going over a small threshold,
then you can bump over that.
And that's a nice little feature to have.
It's not a major deal, but it's nice.
- [Bob] All right Lonnie, get outta here.
- Be nice, Bob. (laughing) - What are you doing here?
- All right.
But the brakes, like all of 'em, push down.
Then they lock in a lock mode or you can do 'em.
- Nice padded backrest, a padded seat.
- [Brad] Right.
- It's got a little, would you call that a cooler, Brad?
- Well, you know when you're from Wisconsin,
you gotta have a place,
if you're going to the Packer game,
where you could put your beverages right in there.
And that is removable.
It removes quite easily, actually.
If you do not want to have that, there you go.
And then you have open space for your legs,
if you wanted it.
- And the final thing they gave us,
which I thought was kind of cool.
They gave us some, oh, you guys hid my cards.
They gave you along some cards
that you're supposed to carry with you.
'Cause everybody that sees this is gonna wanna buy one.
So they're gonna, you can hand these out to people
as you walk around town.
- He's a marketing businessman.
There is one more thing, Bob. - Oh, did I miss something?
- Well, this is a small thing for-
- Oh, they got some reflectors on the back too.
- Yeah, reflectors on the back.
They did take the time for all the little things.
- [Bob] Yep.
- And I took the time to look at the wheels
and the bearings of the wheels.
'Cause to me, the wheels are critical
as to how long this is gonna last.
And not just the wheels, but how they make the bearings.
They're ball bearings.
And they're not only ball bearings,
and they're not shielded, but they're sealed-ed.
So that means they're sealed against the weather.
And that's a step up from shielded.
- That's high end. - Right.
Which is one step up,
which a standard one,
like this particular one here is shielded.
They do not hold up in the weather as well.
So this is just better for outdoors, even.
- [Bob] All right.
Just real quickly, Brad.
Who is the type of patient that's gonna need this?
- [Brad] This is a,
for example, my mother. - Right.
- She can walk- - Now she's gonna get
this one, by the way. (laughs)
- She could walk here to the car.
But if she's gonna go to the park
and she wants to walk some distance,
she's gonna need to sit down
'cause she gets short of breath
and she doesn't have the endurance.
Those are the perfect people.
They're functional with walking,
but they can't walk very far. - Let's include my mother,
since you talked about your mother.
My mother has back surgery, or had back surgery,
and she can only walk so far
before she starts getting pain-
- Sure. - On her leg.
- Yep.
- So she can actually walk for a while.
Then she could actually sit- - Yep.
- And take a rest or she could have someone push her.
- Sure.
- Like if you're at an appointment
or you're going to a long distance.
- Perfect.
- Or if you're at the grocery shopping,
which, of course, comes up quite often.
- Yep, exactly. - So, the fatigued person.
You're gonna want to get one for your parents.
You're gonna want to, come on, dig deep and buy one, Brad.
- He is really the marketing,
he's the business guy here.
I'm thinking, yeah, this is built well.
- The other thing,
which a lot of people do, by the way, Brad,
is they use this to move around the house.
They sit in it and they just use their legs
to propel themselves around the house.
And they don't have to worry about falling.
So that, yep.
You can flip that up.
- Get those out of the way.
And this is where you might remove that basket,
'cause you could pedal. (laughs)
- Yeah, there's a lot of people that like that.
So, all right.
Let's get into the dimensions, Brad.
- Okay.
- I actually weighed this thing with the leg rests on.
- Okay. - I put it on my scale.
It was about 20 to 21 pounds.
- Yep.
- So, very light. At the end of this video,
I'm gonna show you how I put this into the car, by the way.
- Oh yeah. - How easily it went.
We also, the height of the patient
can go from five feet all the way up to six foot two.
It's pretty close for me, Brad.
I'm six foot six.
- Right.
- This is about, not bad. - Right.
- Maybe an inch higher it would have to be.
So it's got really a wide range.
The height of the walker is,
well, it depends on where you got the arm rests adjusted.
- Here.
- How much is that?
- 37 inches. - 37.
And that's what they said.
37 and a half down to 30.
- Well, I've got my glasses off.
- Okay.
The height of the seat is 20 inches.
- Yep.
- The inside of the width is 19.5.
- Okay.
- Okay, the outside width is 27 inches.
- Right. - And the length is,
I can't read my own writing. I think it's 25 inches.
Do the length, Brad. - Yeah.
Well, it depends which way the wheels.
If we're going maximum, we're going,
actually, that's 31. And if the wheels are turned in-
- Oh, I think it was 28 is where we're supposed to be.
- Yep, exactly. - Okay.
So there you go.
Go ahead.
We're becoming a big Hugo fan with this.
- Yeah.
- At the end of this video, again,
wanna watch me putting this into the car
so that you can show how easy that,
you can see how easy that is to do that.
- Right, Bob's got some nice tricks on that.
We don't know what the price of this is,
but I'm sure it's gonna be more than a standard one,
but you're getting a lot more.
- Right, and you want go to hugoanywhere.com.
I'll put the website down below. I hope I said that right.
If it's not right, it'll be right below.
- Right. - And I'll have it
throughout the video for you to watch.
- All right.
- All right, thanks a lot. - Good luck!
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