♪ Bob and Brad ♪
♪ the two most famous physical therapists on the internet. ♪
- Hi, I'm Bob Shrupp, physical therapist.
- Brad Heineck, physical therapist.
- And again, we have the most famous physical therapists
on the internet
- You know, in our opinion, of course, Bob.
- All right, Brad, we get approached
by a lot of companies to show their product.
- Sure.
- They wants to do review their product.
And we turned down a lot.
- Right.
- Because one thing I'm worried that we're not gonna
like the product and then it's a little awkward.
They send you a product.
You don't like it, and...
- Right.
- So I was on the fence
with this one because-
- Okay.
- We've done massage balls before
but it had a couple interesting features.
So I said, ah, what the heck?
- Sure, yeah.
- We'll take a look at it.
So Lonnie, why don't you throw it on out here?
What a pitch.
Okay. This is the Acumo ball.
Did I say it right?
Acumo? Yeah.
- You're asking me?
(laughs)
- Acumo massage ball.
I think it's called a four-in-one.
Kind of a neat design, isn't it?
- Yeah, hmm-mm. Yeah.
- So it's, it's hard, you know, like a lacrosse ball,
but yet with its design,
it actually makes it a little squishy.
- Sure. Yeah.
It's got the ribs on there all the way around.
You can... it's, it's well-built. I mean-
(ball bouncing)
- Yeah, it's really well built.
- I don't know if you should be doing that, Brad.
- Well, we're testing out the three foot drive test.
(laughs)
- It actually is waterproof, too.
- Oh, sure, I believe it.
- And wash it off.
So the, the neat feature about this, though,
is it's the four-in-one,
is it actually has heat, vibration,
and it's got the trigger point
and you can actually also use this as a power bank.
You can use this to charge up your phone.
- That's amazing to put all that in this little ball.
Okay. Right.
Let's see how it works.
- All right.
So what we're gonna do,
I'm gonna come a little closer, Lonnie.
How's that look?
You able to see anything?
- [Lonnie] I dunno.
- [Bob] Are we in sight?
Okay. There's two little buttons.
One says H stands for heat.
The other says V for vibration.
So you gotta hold it in.
When I first did this, I didn't read the instructions
cuz I'm a man and men never, never read the instructions.
(laughs)
You gotta hold it in for three seconds.
And then the heat starts.
You can see that light little indicator light.
Yep. And then you hold in the vibration for three seconds
And it starts vibrating.
Oh, can you hear that?
- [Brad] Oh, they can't hear it, Bob.
- [Bob] But you can see the little indi-
I'll put it by my mic.
There you go.
So, all right.
Yeah. This guy, I really like he put a lot of is clever.
This is ingenious.
- [Brad] There's a lot of different prototypes, he said.
- [Bob] But anyway,
I guess there's three vibration settings too.
If you turn it off and turn it on again
there's a different vibration setting.
- [Brad] Sure. Yep.
- [Bob] So, but the heat,
that was the thing I was skeptical about, Brad.
I thought this thing's not gonna get that warm, but it does.
It's like a hot potato, ready?
Hot potato.
You remember getting hot potato?
- Yeah. It's it's warming up. Oh yeah.
Yeah. This is really an interesting (indistinct) case
- So, besides the heat,
the other thing I like about this is extremely portable.
I mean-
- Right.
- so I mean, when it's this size, so now they
they don't want you using it
in the car if you're driving, but you certainly,
my wife used it in the car when she wasn't driving.
- Oh, in the passenger seat.
- Yeah. And she was, she has trouble with her hamstring
and she just put it in there and worked, let you know
put it over a trigger point and she loved it.
- She did.
- Yeah. She gave, she, she texted me.
She goes, I give it an A++.
- Oh really? Okay.
So, well then what else can we use it for Bob?
- Well, you could use it-
you wanna show the plantar fasciitis?
- Sure. Yeah, this is...
- Lonnie, you're gonna have to take it down.
Take it downtown.
- [Brad] There.
Yeah. I do like the, uh, the ridges on there for this
you can really get in
and work on my arch a little bit there.
- [Bob] Work on the planter fascia.
- [Brad] Okay.
- [Bob] Medical terms. Yeah.
But the other thing I think works out well, Brad,
again, yeah, if you're having, like,
a performance problem, or a gastric problem,
you can just sit on it.
- [Brad] Right.
- [Bob] ] It can take 300 pounds of pressure.
- [Brad] Oh yeah. It's built solid.
What about against the wall for that?
- I think the wall is a great one.
Can you come on over here, Lonnie.
So...
I can feel it.
And it's, this is where you really feel the heat, Brad.
Come over here once, feel the heat, Brad.
I don't think you felt the heat.
- I did feel the heat Bob, but I like that little case.
So if I gotta get it right up there
- You wanna show there, go.
It comes with a little carry case
which like, who cares if it has a carry case, right?
- Right.
- But this one has versatility.
- If you don't have good range of motion like it don't,
to get the ball and you want to
get that ball behind your back.
And this is common with a lot of people
especially if you're, you know, fifties, sixties, whatever
and your shoulders are starting to tighten up from whatever.
You might have an injury.
We go like that.
- Yeah.
- Okay. Now, yeah.
I can position the ball without stretching my
shoulders out wherever I want there.
That is easier.
- The other place you
- A little bit lower.
- could use this is in the office.
You know, if you're having pain up
in the shoulder blades or down in the lower back, you can,
you can really discreetly put it in your office chair
and put it behind you and it can work on, on those things
while you're trying to get-
- Well, I got the spot here, Bob.
- Well, I'm really glad, Brad.
I'm really happy. So...
- That's nice. Yeah. I like that.
- You know, I'm not even sure of the price right now.
I, I know the website had one price and the
and Amazon had another price.
So I, I'm just gonna put the link down below,
and you can take a look, but-
- Right.
- I'll put a link
on Amazon and I'll put a link
to the website.
- And it's got a nice charger, it's got-
- No, this didn't come with this.
This one came with it.
- Oh, that's right. Sorry.
- So it's got, yeah, USB port,
so you can put it into your phone charger.
- Okay.
- You know, right.
And, and then put it into the
the little flip port there, port there.
And then you can also, like I said
you could use this to charge your phone.
Did I say that already?
- Right. And, and you, you could just plug this
into your computer and charge it up off your computer.
Is that correct?
- Right. Right.
But so you do have an extra, you know
in case your phone starts going dead
and you have this thing with you-
- Sure.
- You have a little emergency charger.
- Right.
- Phone, you know, so, all right.
So I'm glad we decided to review it.
I think it's, you know, well worth your-
- Yeah, let me have it.
- Yeah.
- There we go.
So we'll have fights for who gets it, so,
- Oh, it's really warm now, Bob.
- Yeah. I told you it warms up.
He didn't think-
- Well, that's the idea but I didn't know it.
- Oh, by the way, it comes in two colors, blue and orange.
- Oh, yeah.
- So, yep.
All right.
Thanks for watching.