- Okay today, we are going to cover four reasons
why you should buy a massage gun.
- And we're going to cover four reasons
why maybe you should not buy one.
So stick with us- - Stay tuned.
- And we're going to clear it up.
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- All right, the first reason
you're going to wanna buy a massage gun
is because if you have any muscles what so ever,
at some point, they're going to get tight or sore.
- Right.
- And this is the device for that.
And studies have shown it works well for that.
And I have used it, exclusively on my calf muscles.
- Sure!
- Because they get sore all the time when I'm running.
- Absolutely.
- And what muscle do you use it on?
- Well, Bob, chronically, my hamstrings.
It just feels really good to use, they do cramp.
They don't cramp,
but I've had history with
hamstring problems over the last couple years.
This is great.
Gets a lot of depth into the muscle.
And also my pectoralis major.
- Yeah, which massager do we have here, Brad?
- Oh, this is the EM19.
- And this is going to be available at Walmart.
- Yeah, yeah.
If you want to actually go and buy one
off the shelf, like in the olden days,
only about 500 stores,
Walmarts have 'em.
- Right.
So we're going to have list at the end of the video-
- Oh!
- That you can link to. - Oh, cool.
And go see if your town has one of the stores.
- Is it going to be on bobandbrad.com, our website, as well?
- Right, right.
Right. - Okay, very good.
Let's go to the next one. - All right.
Number two is if you have tendonitis at all.
So we all have tendons.
- Yeah.
- Muscles narrow up and become tendons.
And a lot of times they become sore and inflamed
and Brad's gonna show using it on,
that'd be tennis elbow, wouldn't it?
- Yep. Tennis elbow, lateral epicondylitis.
The thing that's nice about this it's got a high amplitude.
In other words, the translation is 10 millimeters.
You're not gonna go in and bounce into that here.
- Right, you don't curve directly into it like this.
- There's not enough muscle mass there
but if you go sideways, then you can.
- It works well on tendons, that.
- It works just like a cross friction massage.
And we're gonna go over a little bit of that too.
You don't have to have a massage gun.
You could do some of this by hand,
but we'll get into some reasons explaining that too.
- You can also hit the tendon right here on the patella.
- Yeah, actually, that works really nice.
You know, you can work with your fingers,
but your fingers-
- That's a big tendon.
- Get sore.
- Right.
- And this going, again, not straight in,
you're gonna beat up your kneecap and your tibia.
But if you go this way over that infrapatellar tendon,
boy, you really get a nice-
- Which leads us to reason number three,
why you might want to buy a massage gun.
- Yep.
- Because it never gets tired.
It never says no, unlike a lot of (laughs).
- So I'll demonstrate that same tendon.
- Right.
- You can certainly do it with your hands
and it works quite well
but you need to go across, in deep, push it in.
- And do it to the point where
it no longer feels any soreness.
- Right.
- If it continues to hurt when you're doing this
you actually wouldn't massage it at this time.
- Exactly.
I do want to say it usually takes two to three minutes.
Typically when I do it by hand,
I know I'm done because my fingers are sore and tired.
(laughs)
- Right. - And I probably could go more
but, you know, I don't want to end up with sore fingers.
- The other thing is the gun is really easy to use.
It's not like a foam roller.
You don't have to get on the floor.
You can sit up and do it, you can do it in bed.
You can use it anytime.
- Yep.
- Now the fourth reason is
when we were using the massage gun in the clinic, Brad,
patients, I thought, wouldn't like it.
I thought they'd prefer the assistance
to do a handheld massage,
- Doing it manual.
- A manual massage.
And the fact is, I'd say at least 50% of our patients said,
"I prefer the gun."
- Sure.
- Over the hands of your therapist, so.
- And then the therapist would be,
"Oh, thank God."
(both laughs)
It's gonna wear my fingers out.
- Right.
So, you know, Mother's Day is coming up.
So you may want to check it out.
- Well, we got four reasons not to
- I know we got four reason not to.
But I'm just saying when, if you're going to buy one
and the whole family will use it.
- Right.
As a matter of fact, you put it in the couch,
watching TV, you lay it there.
And there might even be a little fight
over who gets to use it.
- Right. Okay.
Now we'll go over the four reasons not to buy one.
- Yeah. And this is important.
There's more reasons
I think where not to use one, is that accurate?
- Yes.
- Okay.
- All right.
These are reasons why you would not want to buy
a massage gun.
First off, you're not gonna massage
over certain surfaces.
- [Brad] Right.
- Like bones, nerves, blood arteries.
- Yeah, where you got artery, like in your neck,
or the brachial artery, right in here.
- [Bob] Femoral artery.
- Yeah.
And you know, they actually
we have a video that goes through all of the points,
where you should not use- - Lymph nodes.
- Yeah, lymph nodes.
There's right in your femoral crease, there's lymph nodes.
- Under your arm, there's lymph nodes.
- In the arm. - Up here.
- Mm-hmm.
- There's some lymph nodes.
- Right.
- So, but if you go over a bone,
it's just not comfortable.
I mean- - It hurts.
- Try to go over a kneecap.
- Yeah.
- I mean, you try to go over an elbow.
We do have a- - No, we don't.
- No, we don't, do we?
- No.
You'll see some will come with a airhead
and then you can kinda get closer to the bone.
- Kind of, yeah.
- Yeah, but there's no reason to massage a bone.
- Right, exactly. - It hurts.
It doesn't help any, so forget that.
- All right, number two, if you have neck pain.
Brad and I both made this mistake with patients.
(Brad laughs)
We had 'em, you know, kinda rumble on the neck.
And it just vibrates on the neck
and it does not feel good.
- And you could potentially injure someone,
particularly in the upper neck, you know?
- Right. - Down low, maybe, but-
- Maybe.
- We'd like to say, big caution.
If you're buying a massage gun for your neck,
you probably shouldn't.
- Right, headaches also.
- Right.
- You're not gonna bounce along the head. (laughs)
- Yeah, if you got temporal,
I'm doing a video on this actually, this week.
- Sure.
- We're not gonna use a massage gun
for anything from basically from here up.
- Right.
Number three, if you're an easy bleeder,
like you bleed easy,
or if you had surgery,
if you have open sores,
if you had a fracture,
those are all certain cases
where you just don't want to put a massage gun on.
- Right. Cause they're pretty aggressive.
If you're a easier bleeder,
in other words, you bruise easily,
you could massage your thigh
and the next day have a bruise that looks like-
- Right, looks like you've had the heck beat out of ya.
- Yeah, or you played football without your pads.
So that's why that happens.
- Well, what's the fourth reason, Brad?
- Well, this is important.
If you happen to be married
or you know someone close to you
that happens to be a massage therapist,
they're going to say, you know, and rightfully so,
you're not going to get a-
- Well, maybe they'll be the first one to say buy one.
- Well maybe, but I'm thinking-
- Who knows.
- We do have comments from a therapist
that say it's not as good as a professional hand massage
and I'd have to agree.
- I agree too.
- But they're a lot cheaper.
- Now, if you- - This is.
- Now, if you want to get the E19,
Brad, you wanna talk about this massage gun a little bit?
- Yeah.
EM19. - EM19.
- I'm not sure what the EM stands for.
- Yeah.
- But one way or another,
if you want one of,
what are we going to talk,
oh, the stats on it?
- Right.
Again, the amplitude,
the distance it travels back and forth.
It's 10 millimeters, which is a very good amount.
- Right.
- They do make 'em bigger.
But for the average person,
this is gonna get deep into those hamstrings.
- Yes.
- It's going to get into these larger muscle masses.
It's got a great stall rate.
In other words, how much pressure you can put on it.
Now the cheaper ones,
you can buy one of these for like 30, $40.
You can stall 'em out quite easy.
- Right, right.
- And then you're not going to get deep into the muscle.
- Brad's pushing it as hard as he can.
- Yeah.
And I am strong like bull. - How much it takes.
- No, seriously.
It tells you how much battery life you have left,
the battery charge time.
- How many speeds does this one have?
- This one has 20.
- 20 speeds!
- Right, we're on 18 right now.
- Wow.
- You really don't need 20, but it's kind of nice.
- Sure.
You can tell all your friends.
- Yep.
- And it's got five heads, one, two, three, four,
actually six,
because it comes with two large, round ones.
Which I do use the round ones,
probably almost more than any of 'em personally.
And that's an individual thing.
It's a very nice case, so-
- So what we want you to do is-
- Yes.
- Is go to the link below,
and see if your store is in the 500 stores,
Walmart stores, that are carrying the machine.
And if it is, you don't have to buy one,
but go in and take a picture of one and send it to us.
(Brad laughs)
- You know, actually my hometown
is scheduled to have these at the Walmart there.
- So I don't know, people will probably go in,
and take darts and throw at it.
- You think they'll have parade for you?
- Yeah. Right. (laughs)
- All right.
- I think the darts-
- Thanks for watching folks.
- Be careful!
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