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♪ The two most famous ♪
♪ Physical therapists ♪
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- Hi folks, I'm Bob Schrupp, physical therapist.
- Brad Heineck, physical therapist.
- There we are, the most famous
physical therapists on the internet.
- In our opinion, of course, Bob.
- Today we're gonna talk about three
little-known secrets to greatly improve
your COPD, chronic bronchitis, or emphysema.
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- Alright, let's start off with the first one, Brad.
When you have COPD, chronic bronchitis, or emphysema,
in all cases your inspiratory and expiratory muscles
need a workout, they need to be trained,
just like weight-trainers train their muscles.
So, when your bicep gets weak, what do you do?
You use weights to build it up again.
- Sure.
- So we have a device, actually,
that can help build up your lungs,
the inspiratory and expiratory muscles.
It was developed by a respiratory therapist,
it's called the Breather. Inexpensive device, easy to use.
It's got six levels of resistance for inhaling
and five levels of resistance for exhaling.
- Why there's different, we don't know.
But we're sure that she does.
- Yeah, she had, like, over 35 years of experience.
They've sold over a million of these.
They redesigned it a little better, so it's even better now.
They've got excellent videos on how to use this.
- Right.
- I don't think we need to spend much time on that, Brad.
- Right.
- Because they're gonna show you how to use it.
But, all I wanna say is that they've told us
time and time again, by using this, what happens is,
let's say for example, you go to the mailbox,
and you get very short of breath and couldn't even
do that anymore, you couldn't walk your dog,
you couldn't play with your grandchildren.
They find out, generally, within a couple weeks,
that these things, you are now able to do.
- So you're using this device, and it's really,
it's only a few minutes' exercise per day.
- Yeah, it's twice a day and they recommend
six days a week and you breathe in and breathe out,
that's one rep, two sets of ten.
- So, you're talking about five minutes a day total?
- Yeah, it's inexpensive and it's five minutes a day total.
And, you can do it even with oxygen on,
anybody can do it, you can do it in a wheelchair.
- Right.
- So, I highly recommend this one,
definitely for anybody with COPD in your life,
I would go that route.
- Very good. What's next Bob?
- Alright, the next thing is gonna be
a little bit more surprise, I think.
So, this is the Backpod.
So, you're going, "What does this have to do
"with COPD or asthma, or chronic bronchitis?"
I threw asthma in there too, 'cause there's people
who actually have asthma that have trouble with this.
So, what happens over time, when you have such
a disease like this you tend to start hunching over.
Yeah, cause you're trying to actually
use the accessory muscles to breathe.
And, what happens after a while
is the ribs actually tighten down,
and now you can't open up anymore,
you can't inhale like you should,
you can't get the diaphragm working like it should.
- Right, 'cause the ribs have to be moveable
in order to expand, which is really critical to get maximum,
or a large amount of volume into your lungs.
When your ribs tighten up, that doesn't happen,
then it really cuts down your volume.
- Well said Brad, well said. - Wow.
- So I was talking to the therapist who developed this.
He's from New Zealand, really a great guy.
- Yes.
- Really quite intelligent, a great therapist.
And he knows Lydia Bradey, who was the first woman
ever to climb Mount Everest. - Okay.
- And she's now done it six times,
as a guide and stuff like that.
So, she went and she used this.
She used this to break up her tight ribs,
and so she could get more inspiratory, expiratory motion.
- Right, so she's going for maximum volume.
- Yep, and her vital capacity,
which is the amount you can breathe in, was five liters.
And, she watches this closely, 'cause as you can imagine,
when you're up on the mountain, you need oxygen!
- Right.
- I mean, they often are using
supplementary oxygen, aren't they?
- Well, yeah, once they get up over 20,000, or,
I don't know the exact amount, but,
didn't you watch the movie? - No, I didn't.
- Alright, well anyways.
- So, anyway to hike up there, you need to have
good respiratory capability.
- And, she was at five liters for years, they measured it,
she went and used this, and she increased to 5.7 liters.
Which is pretty significant. - Yeah, that's significant.
- Right, so, the way you use this device,
actually, I'm gonna show real quickly, Brad.
So, you're gonna lay down on it.
Again, a very simple thing to use.
I gave you a shock? - Yeah.
- You put it, here's the spine,
and here's the shoulder blades,
you put it between those.
So, you work your way down, you lay on it for 30 seconds,
lay on it for 30 seconds, lay on it for 30 seconds,
and then we hit the other side.
So, we go all the way around it.
I've been using it, I've been really surprised by it.
You know we do that wall angel test?
Where you lean up against the wall and see if you can
get your arms all the way back?
I could never get this one back.
- Right.
- And I thought it was the shoulder.
And it turns out it was my back. 'Cause now I can do it!
- From using this? - From using this, yeah!
- So, for someone who's never used this before,
you're gonna use it on a hard surface,
and generally, you might start
with two to three pillows, even.
- Sure.
- 'Cause otherwise it's gonna be
too much for you to handle, and yeah if you're new to it,
you might even put a towel over it too.
So, it comes with all the instructions here,
but I'm just showing real quickly,
how it works, so, very simple,
I go like this, I get it right between my shoulders,
right there a little crack, that went on there,
and you can start off like this,
and I bring my arms up too like this
to give a little bit of a chest stretch.
But, eventually you wanna work to the point
where you are going like this.
But you notice this Brad? My arm is all the way down.
- Yeah, I see that Bob!
- And before it was like this. - Okay.
- And every morning I'd wake up,
and I'd try to get it down and I couldn't.
So, just from using this device.
- Right.
- Now you also used it.
- For costochondritis. - Right.
- Chest pain, which is not from a heart attack,
but is from where the ribs connect to the sternum,
and it's an annoying thing to have,
because you think, am I having a heart attack?
I went in twice, I wasn't.
I used this, and that's actually one of the things
he developed it for, specifically.
- Exactly, this has been a bit of a surprise, he said,
this other use of it, but it's good
for people with bad posture.
- Sure.
- Which, you know, we have kind of an epidemic of.
Now, I'm gonna tell you right off hand,
this is pricey, it's 90 bucks.
And people look at this and they go,
"How could this be 90 bucks?"
This is a one-man show that's making this thing.
I mean, this isn't some big company that, you know, so,
if you look at this, by the way, it's very strong,
you could run a car over it,
it's got two pieces here and that means
he had to have a mold for each one of these.
Brad and I know this, 'cause we've
gone down this road. - Right.
- He had to have a mold for this. What are you thinking?
- He's probably between 50 and 100 thousand dollars
just for the tooling. - For the molds,
yeah, and then, this isn't a huge market
that every person in the world's gonna buy,
although a lot of them could.
So, you start to understand why
he has to charge the price he does.
He's probably not gonna make money
on this for years and years.
I'm just trying to defend him
because we've gone through the same thing.
- Right, it's hard to get prices
for where you would like them.
- Yeah, when you're not a big company.
Alright, number three, Brad,
this is gonna probably be a surprise to many people too.
Eat more fruits and vegetables.
It's like, "What does that have to do with lungs?"
- Sure, sure.
- But it does. So, they had a hundred patients
in this one study and they had
half the patients actually eat more
fruits and vegetables over a three year period.
On the other side, the other 50,
they just had a normal diet, what they were eating before.
So, after three years, the normal diet,
the people actually got a little progressively worse,
which you expect from COPD. - Sure.
- And the one with the fruit and vegetables,
they actually got a little better.
So, they think it's due to the anti-oxidants
and anti-inflammatory effects of fruit and vegetables.
I mean, there really is an important part of your diet
to try to watch the inflammation.
- Right, and that's becoming more and more understood.
- Yeah, so those three things, give them a try
and I think, you know, you're not gonna cure your
COPD or bronchitis or emphysema,
but you certainly can make life better,
improve your quality of life.
- 'Cause you have some control over it.
- Right, so, give those three things a try.
Thanks for watching.