♪ 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 therapist on internet.
- In our opinion of course, Bob.
- Best dressed too wouldn't you say, Brad?
- Yeah, you're looking sharp today, Bob.
- For once.
Okay, today, Brad, the title is,
I actually have to read it off my clipboard,
is "You will love this new treatment for knots
and back pain, upper, mid, and low back pain."
First of all, our apologies.
We already did this video
and some of you may have watched it
and you may have seen that actually my mic wasn't working.
- Yeah, we had issues.
- Which is probably Brad's perfect world
in which I can't talk.
And he can take a over the show.
- Yeah, so I was take-
Yeah, so I thought I was gonna get away with it, but-
- He sabotaged my mic.
- What we're wearing here has something to do
with the video,
has a lot to do with it as a matter of fact.
- Yeah, so again we actually gotta tell a story
about our previous video.
So you know, one day I was working at my computer
and I was having difficulty with, you know,
you started getting stressed in the upper trapezius,
you get the knots in that area.
And even though I was trying to do good posture
and I was trying to do a little bit of exercise,
it just wasn't helping out.
So I always liked to take the Thermotex
and put it on, you know, or lean up against it.
But I'm like, well I can't keep working then.
And I had to keep working.
I was under, you know, a deadline.
- Right, and you wanted some heat on your back
for a little relief.
- I wanted that infrared heat to come in.
So what I did is I took the pack
and I used this posture supporter.
This is from OP TP up.
We got it in our link below, but I put this over the top
of this pack and held it in place
and it actually worked out pretty good.
- [Brad] Tucked kinda like under here where my hand is
and he got it the stay just like he has this, but right.
Go ahead with the story, Bob.
- Right yeah, so, but it was awkward putting this on.
But anyway, the people at Thermotex saw this
and they're going, "Well that's a cool idea.
We could make this both a heating system
and a posture supporter at the same time."
- Sure - And so
that's what they've done.
They've sent some extra straps along
and they've done this.
But before we go any further, Brad-
- There are something we-
- We gotta welcome some people into our fold.
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Right? - Go on.
Let's go on with the story, Bob.
All right, so anyway, Brad and I,
we like Thermotex because, we kinda became big fans
of it because instead of just a regular heating pad,
it provides deep heat.
- Right
- Regular heating is what Brad?
- It's not convection.
This is infrared, versus convection.
So we can go 10 times deeper into the tissue with this
versus a typical convection heater.
That's the electric kind,
that you can buy for $30 down at your box store or online.
- Sure, so we're talking about just a few millimeters
of what regular heat would be,
versus 60 millimeters or 2.36 inches.
So that's a lot deeper.
So what I like about this, this gets into the joints itself.
It doesn't just go on the surface
and it gets it deep down into the muscle itself.
- Sure. - And I can tell you,
it's funny after I did this video,
I had another episode and I put it on, it was like,
I can stay at work, I can keep working.
And the pain goes away.
Now this is a little, probably awkward looking,
for maybe in the public spaces.
But I know I certainly didn't hesitate to do it at home.
That's for sure.
- There's people that are not gonna care what people think,
they're just gonna use it cause it works.
- That's true - Shall we show 'em?
- Yeah - Yeah
- We got it plugged in,
I'm just gonna disconnected it here,
so we can move around a little.
- And that's one of the advantages.
So it's got an eight foot cord.
You always liked this cord, don't you Brad?
Brad comes from a different background.
- Yeah, these are commercial duty or industrial duty cords,
I would call it, but they're made to last
and they're made for abuse and take it.
- Yeah, and I can move quite a bit of distance
in my office with that.
But if I have to go somewhere else to get something
or make a copy or something, I just pull this off
and off I'm running and I come back over,
I plug it right back in again.
- Well turn around so they can see.
So we got this, you know, it's the platinum model
which covers a large area.
It's got three panels in giving off that are Infrared DP.
- Yeah and what I like about this one
is you can actually go way up here
and I can get up into the neck.
- Right.
- And the thing about infrared heat or waves,
you don't have to be conformed right against the body,
they'll penetrate, like even if there's
kind of a little bit of a gap here,
they'll still penetrate into the muscle.
- Right, cause it's literally light waves that are-
You know, high frequency, light waves
that are providing the heat.
And you know, it's been around for years, it's nothing new.
It's just that with hot packs.
But this is the part, these elastic straps
that give you that-
- They actually pull my shoulders back.
And so again, it's correcting my posture
and making it easy to correct my posture.
It's like, you know, someone reminding me,
Bob, get your shoulders back.
- Cause when Bob's at the computer working,
he's thinking hard, like he-
- Yeah I almost start drifting.
- Even for us that preach-
- That's right.
- Yeah, we have issues as well.
- And this is made by a company out at Calgary.
They're a family company, a family owned company,
from my understanding.
And they've been doing it for a lot of years
and also this is approved by the FDA and also Health Canada.
- Right.
- But I wanna show you two different ways
we put the straps on here.
- Okay, let's do it.
- So this one, I have it so I can go way up farther
like this, and I'll show you how I did that.
I actually-
And this is easier to you know, get on with help,
but you can do it yourself, right?
Oh geez.
- Oh Bob. - Brad
- Don't worry about it.
- It it's solid, right?
- It's not an issue.
- Okay, so on this time, what I did,
now this is where it might be hard to see on here.
- Yeah, all black on black.
- What we gotta do, is do this Brad.
Take it off.
So the bottom strap, we came in from the side like this.
Okay.
- So there's this little Velcro squares on here.
- We came in from the side and we hooked up.
- On the top one, what we did,
is we came in from the top and went down like this.
And that way, it was able to hook on
and I could pull it up higher on my neck.
So this one came in from there from the top like this,
this one came in from the side.
Now, if you're gonna get it for your low back,
you know more of a mid back or low back,
this one would have come in from the side.
And these would come in from the side also.
So just come in from the side, like this.
Make sure it's hooked up really well.
Now I'm gonna have you help me Brad here,
because I don't wanna screw up on camera.
- Yeah, yeah, we do enough of that.
- Yeah we have enough problems.
I just dropped it on camera here, so-
- Oh yeah, there.
- So now you can see, I can go lower with it.
- Yeah, he's this whole hand width up here, drops it down.
- So it's more, more for a mid-back.
They also have one that's made for the low back.
They have a larger one.
This again is the platinum model.
What you wanna remember on this, by the way,
if you're gonna get one of these, they provided us
with a code and it's down below in the description below.
And if you use that code
you get quite a bit of money off of it.
- Sure - Plus you get
the straps. - Right
- Sometimes they call that a discount.
- Discount code.
I don't know, promo code.
I call it.
But you gonna wanna make sure you use that
because I've seen some people order through different ways
and then they end up paying the full price.
And it's like, you know
we worked hard to get this discount for people.
- Right, right.
- And so we wanna make sure
that you're gonna take advantage of it.
And also the fact that you get the straps,
cause normally this comes with a long strap
and a short strap.
It doesn't come with both of these long ones.
- Yeah, I thought we had it here, but yeah.
You need these extra straps,
so you can do this option of getting it on your upper back
and neck.
- Now they do have other devices, you know.
They have 'em for the wrist.
They have 'em for the knee.
And then they have that big jumbo one again for the back.
- And then the foot one.
- Oh the foot one too, yeah.
There's there's a, like they call it the big slipper.
You can slip it in there.
- Both feet at once.
- The other thing I like about these Brad,
they're very efficient, right?
The cost to run these are just nominal.
- Right, this platinum is 36 Watts.
If you know anything about electrical power,
the other-
- And I don't.
- The conventional ones are typically a hundred Watts
or more, so it's almost three times-
One third that cost to to run 'em.
- So I mean pennies a day, really.
- Right.
- And usually what they recommend, by the way,
if you're treating an ailment,
like a certain particular problem,
they recommend that you put it on.
It takes about 10 minutes to heat up completely.
And that's why sometimes people just leave 'em on.
Because again, they're so inexpensive to run.
But you want to have it usually twice a day,
and usually 30 to 45 minutes.
- Right, that's recommendation.
- The treatment and you're gonna notice a difference.
Now what we always recommend along with that,
is that you do some type of exercise
or movement along with it.
And generally if it heats up once,
it's a lot easier to do the exercises.
But even with this on Brad,
you can certainly do some of these things.
Yep, shoulder-
- Up and back- - And go back, yep.
- Up and back, up and back.
- Can we do that one where you go all-
- Yeah - And get the external
rotation too.
- Yep - Get those shoulders
- Bring it up, external rotate back,
and while you're doing your chin tuck too at the same time.
So this, this, this.
- Chin tuck - Yep
We just did this on one of our, what we call
"quickie videos."
- Yeah, one of the-
The three in one exercise, I like to think of it as.
It gets the necks, it gets a shoulder
and it gets that posture.
And then even sometimes you wanna even throw in
a little bit of neck extension.
- Sure - Do you wanna pull that chair
over just real quick and should up Brad?
Just add in neck extension.
So this is the other one
that could be sending pain down.
- This and this and this.
And then of course, neck extension.
And this is the one where a lot of times, you know
you can put your hands back here for a little support
or you can use a towel roll.
We've done that many times.
I gotta get my glasses outta the way, Bob.
- But in any case, you know,
through the combination of this,
I'm gonna be very surprised if you don't get some relief.
- Oh right, yeah.
The body needs that, the balance of the posture,
going forward we need to go back.
- Yep, all right.
Remember Brad and I can fix just about anything
except for a broken heart.
- There it is.
- But we are working on it.
- Thanks lot.
- Say no more.