Hi folks, I'm Bob Schrupp physical therapist, Brad Heineck physical therapist. --We're beyond testing now Brad.
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of course Bob. Today we're going to talk about ice therapy
for shoulder knee or ankle injuries or pain, you know after you injure a body part, let's say a ligament, muscle, or tendon
the body sends blood cells and fluid to the area to repair the damage
Sure--the problem is they send too much and it becomes almost like a traffic jam
They send too much fluid and the problem is the cells then can't get the oxygen and can't repair themselves
So you need to use ice to calm things down a little bit, calm that inflammatory process down a little bit.
Right, I always think of it as you know, like an ankle it's sprained ankle, you know, it gets all swollen.
It's actually so swollen you can feel the pressure in there and it's--they can't do its job--right.
There's too much pressure we need to get that to relieve--right.
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what you're gonna want to do is you're gonna want to get the especially for the
first couple days when the body's going crazy and sending you
too many cells and too many blood cells, you want to get things calmed down. So you're gonna want to use an ice pack.
We have a video on how to make your own ice pack.
Right you can do it very easily. You just need a gallon freezer bag,
4 cups of water, 1 cup of rubbing alcohol and you can make a very nice freezer bag.
Cost about a quarter--yep there we go They don't work as well as these,
but they still work very well so you can look that up also. So we had Vive
the company sent us these three different ice therapy packs and
these are really nice for two reasons:
one they're made for a specific body part, and we've found like the shoulder is kind of a difficult one to do, isn't it Brad?
Right, yeah even the homemade one it can slide and fall off
the shoulder and you get it trapped behind the chair and you can get it but this is--and the same with the knee one
you know this knee one here now, you can actually walk around with it on.
It's got the really easily velcro straps.
I've had a number of people with total knees that will purchase
one of these for at home specifically for their injury, you know
It's not that expensive and it is quite a bit easier to work with.
So again, I've never heard of this company before but I'm very impressed with their products because they're very well made,
but they weren't that expensive. So the shoulder one, that was the most expensive one.
That was $26.99, but the knee one was
$17.99 and the ankle one which Brad has right there was $19.99, so
the packs can actually be warmed up or you know frozen. I mean you can put them in the microwave
Okay-- and heat them up, you can take out the packs themselves.
There's the little you know, I guess I could show, do you want to show it on one of them?
Yeah, you're talking about taking the gel pad out--or you can throw the whole thing in there.
Somebody I saw online said they didn't think these got very cold.
These were just sitting out in my car and they're cold right now, aren't they Brad?--Right.
It's December here and it's about 40 degrees out there.
Yeah, right there's one of the gel packs. So yeah, I put this in our preferred products because you know
we didn't really recommend an ice pack and I thought these are really nice, really well-made.
Yeah.
So you want to go for about 10 to 20 minutes
with the ice pack because after that usually they start to warm up so you don't have to worry anyway
Right--at that point but after that your body if it's getting too cold for too long
your body's gonna send even more blood cells and fluid and you get kind of hyperemia.
So you don't want to go too long either with the rest pack, usually want to go about 10 to 20 minutes.
But ice pack also if you don't have an injury, but you just have pain it's gonna help dull the
messages that are going to the brain. So that's why ice feels good after you've had some type of
if you have a painful injury. Some people don't like it on arthritis because it's cold--right--but
for a lot of chronic pain patients
they might use ice every day.--Sure.--It's really no problem with that.
I did have one person with real bad knee arthritis and she preferred cold packs.
--I've had that too.--So it happens. Everyone's a little different.--Yeah, some like the cold and stuff.
This actually feels really good on my shoulder.
What the cool thing about this one by the way, Brad,
You know in addition, the shoulder one is a little more difficult to put on
I think you're almost gonna have help to do it.--Mhm.
I did it last night, but not as how much it is when you help me, but it's got a little pump here.
So it fills up the air bladder and actually makes it conform to the shoulder even better.--Right cuz with a cold pack you want
to have surface area contact.--Yeah that's working great. It's really--you are looking strong like bull.--There we go.
But and then you just release it by pushing down on that.
Yeah, you could use that for a Halloween thing too, you know like one on each side
Yeah, I could look like the incredible hulk. So there you go, two for the price of one. Alright. Thanks for watching everybody.--Good luck.