♪ Bob and Brad, the two most famous ♪
♪ Physical therapists on the internet. ♪
(hands clap) - Hi folks,
I'm Bob Schurpp Physical Therapist.
- Brad Heineck Physical Therapist.
- We're the most famous physical therapists on the internet.
- In our own opinion of course, Bob.
- Are you sick of knots in your shoulders,
upper back and traps, well science says, try TENS.
- TENS? - Yeah T-E-N-S,
Transcutaneous Electrical Muscle Stimulation.
- It's a mouthful. - For nerves,
nerve stimulation, which one am I doing?
Yeah, nerve stimulation not muscle stimulation.
It used to be neuromuscular.
- Right. - That's what's
throwing me off. - Ah, well of course.
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- A TENS.
- At least one I'm not sure how many we're giving away
but these are really nice units.
We're gonna talk about a little bit later
how you can get one yourself, even if you don't
wanna win one or you don't win one.
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of us there, we do a 60-second version of our show.
Not a shortened version of me I'm six foot six but--
- Right, right, well we better get to the TENS.
- All right, okay, so there's been
some really excellent studies on showing how TENS
can actually decrease pain and decrease the tightness
that you feel from knots. - Knots.
- Yeah, now knots in the therapy world
are actually called myofascial trigger points.
- Sure.
- And they're defined as, and I hope I'm not
getting too technical here but, a hyper irritable spot
in the muscle and it's often associated
with a hyper sensitive nodule.
So you feel, you feel a bump there.
- Right, right. - Basically like a knot there.
- Like a Tootsie Roll is in there.
- There we go, a Tootsie Roll. - That's technical.
- That's technical (laughs), and it is almost like
a taut bandle on with it the muscle
gets real tight there. - Mm-hmm, yeah.
- Controversial to the cause, but again these three studies
showed that the TENS helped relieve pain from these knots.
- Sure
- And so, we're gonna go ahead and show you
just that in just a minute but I also wanna mention
that under TENS that, oh I was gonna mention the studies.
That's how I was gonna talk that.
- Oh yeah, the three studies.
- I knew I said somewhere, somewhere.
(Brad laughs)
- So one was called "Low-frequency High-intensity
"Versus Medium-frequency Low-intensity Combined Therapy
"in the Management of Active Myofascial Trigger Points:
"A Randomized Controlled Trial."
Reading this I just realized, Brad, I'm not gonna read
all three of these, I'll put 'em down below.
- Yeah, there you go. - Okay?
- Yeah, you have to have a PhD just to understand
that title (laughs). - Right, right.
Imagine trying to interpret them too.
So, TENS helps, in a synopsis, helps prevent
the pain signals from reaching your brain.
- Right, right. - That's a real simple way
of saying it. - Yeah.
- There's a gate theory that helps, you know,
it cuts off the pain path basically.
- There you go, feels better.
- Yeah, it also though,
will stimulate your natural endorphins.
- Ah, that's good. - Endogenous opioids
so you can actually get your own little
high going on there. - Can't get enough of those.
- That's right (laughs) that's right.
- It's all natural.
- So we're ready to go here, Mike come on in.
- Here. - We got Mike,
our physical therapist assistant.
Look at this guy!
- Our guinea pig (laughs). - He says guinea pig.
- Our guinea pig yeah, all right,
strip down there young man, yep, so while you're doing that,
not your pants, he said your pants.
- They can't hear him anyway. - This is a family show.
- Ah, why Mike. - Tell him it's a family show.
- He says he's wearing underwear, thank god.
- Okay, I'm turning the unit on.
I'm not gonna show you how to use this unit.
This is a really cool little unit though.
This is the 80-80.
It's both TENS and EMS.
- Right.
- Electrical Muscle Stimulation
- Model number 8080.
- 8080, what I like about this is besides being really small
so you can you know, obviously you could
put the electrodes on and the leads on and the pads on
and people won't even see it, you know,
it'll be underneath your clothes,
you can put this in your pocket.
- Right.
- And also it's rechargeable, to me
that's a huge deal. - No yeah, no batteries.
You plug it in and - We remember long ago when we
had to get batteries for these things.
- Yeah.
- You can go ahead and go ahead and put some,
talk about, Brad, where you might put the electrodes.
- Yeah, so a common knot place is right here.
Trigger point knot and I'm going to,
now where you put them on may vary from person to person.
But I'm gonna put one, one towards his neck from there.
Would you go for that Bob? - Yeah, that sounds good.
- And the other one just on the other side of the knot.
Almost over it, but you can't get too close with them.
You've gotta keep some distance between there.
And I actually, I'm gonna, I'm gonna go right there.
- Now-- - Too bad we don't
have a magic marker we could show where.
- [Bob] Yeah well, what the point we're trying
to make though with this is really you gotta experiment
with this, 'cause you could put one right
on the knot if you want. - Sure.
- And maybe down further, there's really not a real wrong
except I generally don't like to put on the spine.
- Yeah. - Generally.
And we definitely don't wanna put one
on the carotid arteries or on your eyes or--
- Right so that's--
- Head, you don't put them on for headaches.
- Right.
- But you know, the knots are down here.
Generally you can move it all around.
You could even try four pads.
- Right - 'Cause these come
with two leads and four pads, if you're wondering why
my hand is shaking it's because I've got two pads
on here and I've got it on kind of a burst mode right now.
- So you don't need to see the doctor for--
- No, no for Parkinson's or anything like that.
- I'm fine so.
- And we've got it set like that so that you can
see that it's activating. - So you can see it right.
So I'm gonna do this and go down.
All right, now we'll go ahead and hook Mike's up.
- So, there, we could actually do
Bob and Mike at the same time.
- Yes we could. - It's got two channels,
but that would be not--
- Shut up Mike, what are you thinking there?
- That wouldn't be kosher if ya wanna use that term
or that phrase. - Right.
All right lets go, let's turn it up once here.
Lets see if Mikes feeling anything.
Are you feeling anything there Mike?
- He's not hollering yet. - No.
- All right. - Now it's starting to jump.
- [Brad] Typically you start to feel like pins
and needles. - Are you okay?
- [Brad] And then as the intensity goes up you can see
the muscles actually contract.
Are you uncomfortable, Mike, with that?
M'kay, and often times what I do when I have a patient,
I show 'em how to use that and I let them
go up and down - Yeah.
- [Brad] So they're under control.
- [Bob] Yeah I should've done that because I just went
up to 14 and didn't even ask Mike (laughs).
- [Brad] Yeah, but we know Mike and Mike has used these.
so we knew we could beat up, but, yeah--
- [Bob] We beat up on him (laughing).
So a very simple unit to use it really doesn't take much.
We have some videos on how to use it.
- Right. - In case you're
wondering that, but we have a link below.
And they give a sizable discount to the people
that watch our program so - Right.
- If you use the link below--
- Get, save some money
- You'll save some money. - Right.
- So yeah, so get rid of those knots
and send 'em out the door so you never see 'em again.
Right Mike? - Yeah.
- Oh, Mike said yeah.
- That-- - Ugh, naughty.
Yeah they're naughty (laughs).
All right, thanks everybody for watching.
- Thank you. (upbeat music)