Hey everybody it's Doctor Jo, and it's
product review time again. The folks at
Freory sent me their premium massage
stick and ball bundle. So let's get started.
So what I really like
about their massage stick is, the cool
part,
you can't bend it. Some of the other
massage sticks that you might see other
places are made out of plastic in the
middle which makes it bend and kind of
role and curve, which might be okay for
some things, but it's not going to give
you a lot of pressure in the spots where
maybe you have a trigger point or you have a
really tight muscle that you're trying
to roll out. So I like that right up
front that it doesn't really give it's
nice and firm. The circles in the middle
are made of plastic, but they have these
little grooves here that you can see
which is nice because it kind of goes in
and helps roll out those muscles and
gives it kind of a nice massage texture
vs if it was just smooth, so it kind of
helps get some of those spots as well.
And you can see that they they spin
very freely. You don't have to work hard
to make them roll so it makes it a nice
smooth movement as you're rolling on it.
You dont have to go "er, er, er"
it's nice and smooth. The handles are
also very comfortable. They've got little
little massage spots here, little spikes,
that help kind of massage your hands
while you're working out too, but as you
can see there's a little groove here so
it's very comfortable to hold onto. It
allows you to get a little bit more
pressure when you're pushing down on
things, so that's also really nice. And
it's got a cute little handle right
there so if you want to help hang it up
on something so you can find it easily,
you can. The spiky ball here is pretty
cool because it's a high-density, so it's
very very firm. It helps get spots, you
know, if you've got some just some muscles
that are tight, and you want to get a
little like more specific spot versus
the whole muscle, you can use the ball
and it also works wonderfully with
plantar fasciitis when that fascia is
really tight, irritated, these little
spikes on it helped kind of massage it
all out. So it's nice, but you can use it
on your whole body as well so instead of
maybe the whole muscle that I want
workout with the roller, if I've got a
little trigger point spot right there, I
can just really work on it right there,
or if I want to put more pressure on it
you can actually sit on it like on your
piriformis and move it around a little
bit and that really gets right into that
spot to help relax it. So just putting it
under your foot for something like
plantar fasciitis or even if you have
bone spurs that's irritating the fascia
under there, so you can do it this way
where you're just getting a little bit
of pressure on it, or you can sit in a
chair and then push all the way down to
get a little more pressure on it. So it's
really nice because you can do the
different pressures with your body
weight versus not and those
little spikes are a nice massage-y kind
of feeling, really just loosening
everything up. And go side to side and
you can even do it on your calf muscle
as well and just kind of roll on that,
but if you're looking for a little bit
bigger surface area, then the stick is
much much nicer. You can just kind of roll it
out and and you can definitely find some
spots in there. I'm a little bit sore, my
IT band from some workouts, and that just
feels great, and as you can see again
it's really nice and smooth.
You can roll all the way down get the
whole IT band on the other side of the knee,
come back up into the quad and then you
can even go underneath to the hamstrings
and kind of pull up so that's really
really nice as well. And then you can
also, if you just want to a one-hander,
that works pretty well too, you know, like on
the neck. You can do both sides, but if
your other side your shoulder hurts a
little bit, you can easily do it with
one and still get some nice pressure on
there. Take it down your back and get
some of your lats over there on one side
and just work those muscles up and down
there. So they're really really versatile,
with the stick and the ball, you can get
almost anywhere on your body and work
it out. And then it also comes with a nice
carrying case so you can keep them
together so you don't lose one or the
other or have somebody take it because
it's so cool. So really really fun
products here and easy-to-carry so
that's that's really nice and
fun. If you have any questions, leave them in the
comments section. If you'd like to find
out more about the product you can go to
freory.com. If you're interested
in purchasing them you can go to my
website at askdoctorjo.com/freorystick
And remember, be safe (don't hit anybody),
have fun, and I hope you feel better soon.