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.
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Today we're going to talk about the one simple solution for very tight muscles and it's not just stretching.
Well what is it Bob?
-People are gonna say it's stretching. I want to say it's not just stretching
-but that's one of the-
Yeah, stretching always helps with a tight muscle.
Right so just hang around and we're going to show you what the other key component is.
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So the one thing you know when you have tight muscles, the stretching
a lot of times just doesn't do it alone.-Right-and one thing that I find too like if you're stretching
like the quad and the hip flexor, a lot of times if the quad is looser,
that's the one that's gonna stretch. The hip flexor won't stretch as much so
you need to isolate the muscles sometimes and the best thing to do is some type of massage.
Sure-and there's a lot of different ways you can do that.
You can use almost, you know, one of those little massage units like the Purewave.
Right the electric-powered ones.-Yeah, but we're going to show you the inexpensive way today.
This is really--I was really impressed with this.
This kit comes with a foam roller which works really well to massage muscles-Right.
It's really--it's not your traditional foam roller.
It's hollow and it's got different textures on it, which help get into the muscles a little bit.
Yeah and that eva, that material Eva I think it's called.-Oh, really?-Yeah. You haven't heard of that before?
And then we got a massage stick, and then we got a lacrosse ball and kind of a spiky ball.
So all these come, you know, they stick it in here
and then they actually got a little instructional device or pamphlet here,
quickStart and it's got some of the exercises you can do, the massages you can do, but all this comes together for $25.99.
Yeah, good deal.-That's really a good price.-You can't get a half a massage for that from the masseuse.
No, but I even like the massage sticks. I think they usually run like $15-20 don't they?
I mean this is well-made, aren't they?
Yeah, I was surprised. You know I had my little questions at first, but I take it all back. It's uh, it is well built. It's-
Yeah, and that's what I want to show. I mean you can actually go right down the line here.
One area that I've really been concentrated lately is on my hip flexor
and because I was getting some pain in my hip and
I was thinking oh God, is it arthritis? You know, I'm old enough for that scenario.
But no, it was my hip flexor, was real tight and tender and
so you can get in there and I mean you can you know, you want the muscle relaxed,
but you can actually get in there and work it that way.
Now you can take you know your
what is it when you roll out dough and stuff like that?
What's the device?-Liz?
Rolling pin! Rolling pin! Yeah-I don't cook. I don't know this stuff.
Well, didn't your mom when you were a kid, what'd she call it?-She probably hit me with it.-That's what I was thinking.
So a roller pin you could take a rolling pin, but this works much better, but you know
you can with just a couple strokes like this you can get things loosened up and you can work the quadricep and
you can also flip around and hit the hamstring right away. I've seen these people, you know at the fitness club
I've seen them at track meets for my daughter. In college they're using these right out there in the field.
So, you know,
yeah you can warm the muscles up before the event and you can also stretch it out after the event,
so do you want to show the calf muscle and
you're gonna sit down on this I thought.-Well, yeah.-Oh you mean with this?
Well show the calf muscle and you can also show how the balls might work.
You want me to just show my calf muscle?-Well, if you feel like you must.
Well you know it does work better I think directly on the skin, but you don't have to you know, you can-
Yeah it worked well through the clothing too.
So we're not saying you have to buy this kit by any means.
You can go ahead and like I said, you can use your rolling pin at home,
or you can go ahead and buy just a rolling stick if you want.
I did have a patient and he was in his 60s
and he didn't want to buy anything and he had a rolling pin at home. He brought it in, worked pretty good.
They work out pretty good.
Now this whole kit yeah, I told you was 26 bucks, right? Yeah, and it's by East Hills Fitness.
We'll put a link below for that.-Okay, and we'll go right to the ball.-Yep.
So that's kind of a spiky ball and that's good for the bottom of the foot.
Right, I'm gonna start with the lacrosse ball.
This is gonna be a little more aggressive.
So it depends on your goal or where you need to get to the tight muscle, where there's plantar fasciitis.
Oh yeah-that feels different doesn't it?-Yeah, it does. Actually I kind of like it.
I didn't feel like that had much of an effect on the muscles.
It felt just like a ball, but when you get to the foot or the hand, you know-oh sure.
Yeah, it actually makes a difference.
The other thing with the lacrosse ball,
like if you want to hit like some of the smaller muscles like the piriformis muscle on the buttock,
you can use it to focus on that area.
This foam roller, you know, we've done many videos on this but you know, you can get the hamstrings.
What I do in the morning, in fact Brad is and I do this on a hard surface, not on a surface like this,
I just want to show people, but I get both hamstrings at the same time,
like this and then I go down and I get both calf muscles at the same time. So I'm being real efficient,
and I can get it done really fast and the knobs are nice on this because it really does dig in and
if you feel that's too much, there is more of a smoother surface right here.
So you can vary the intensity.
You bet yep-and I actually do catch my anterior tibia and stuff like that too
because I was, you know, I'm getting old here because I feel a little pain in there, too.
Yeah well you might as well get the roller out and see what she can do.-Yeah it makes a big difference,
I think you know, Tom Brady has been a big advocate of this the muscle pliability,
and some of the other pro athletes now that are extending their careers
because they're keeping their muscles pliable and you can extend your career. Yeah, that's the other one we like.
Boy did that make my back--didn't you hear that?-I did actually hear that.
I betcha the viewers heard that baby crack, that felt wonderful.
Yeah, so we like it for the mid-back. We don't like it for the low back.
You know, what actually would work for the lumbar area is this one.-Oh sure.
You can work--this is perfect for this for low back.
You know what I mean?
You can get right in there and so--I wondered if we can put this in our Amazon favorite?
Below the video?-In our preferred yeah.
Well we may do both. Liz can you make note of that?
Now I'm right on my sacrum here and this is something I do like to do and this is working quite well.
I'm impressed, I use a foam roller, but this works, you know with-the knobs.
Yep, with the knobs it's a little more aggressive-Right it is a little more-I'm tolerating very well
By the way this holds 350 pounds. So I think you're okay.-I'm okay.-Yeah, you're not gonna collapse.
You did have a big Christmas meal though didn't you?-Oh, believe me
like I told you we didn't get done till about 1:00 in the morning.-Well, that's late for Brad, so, all right
Thanks everybody for watching and you know enjoy us in the new year.
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Is this gonna play before the New Year?
-I don't know. We'll find out.
Liz is going maybe it's going to be in the New Year.
-2019's coming up. -Alright. Thanks for watching.