Well, hi folks I'm Bob Schrupp physical therapist. Brad Heineck physical therapist.
Together we are the most famous physical therapists on the internet, in our opinion of course Bob.
There's a new five-minute test that can help detect dementia
ten years early. Ten years early? That's that's very helpful
I mean, you know right now I'm 58. So, you know, I'm sure dementia is gonna start to set in any time here
So I want to get tested and Liz and I both question that at this point
But she said that about me too, that's right.
Because what are you, 24?
She's like a young kid. All right, by the way, if you're new to our channel, please take a second to subscribe to us
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Because both on YouTube and on Facebook, we're giving away the TENS units again. Oh, I believe
Where is it? Well Bob, righ there. Hold on I'm going to grab one
A little dementia coming on here
So iRelieve is a TENS unit. They've been very generous and they've given V away four of them
Okay, some of the wireless ones and some of the wired ones
Oh great, and great for pain relief if you've got chronic pain or even acute pain
Not cute not like cute. Acute like it's happening right now
It's intense you want to put it under control without using opiods
Without using drugs, right. So there we go.
Alright, so this was a study that was done by an international team at the University of College of London
And they studied 3191 participants, so it was a large study. Yeah, it's a big number. It was in 2002. They measured the intensity of a participant's pulse
So in the neck. Yeah, I'm thinking carotid artery. I didn't get the details on it
So I don't know what they actually did and you thought they were probably measuring the pressure
Well after we discussed it, but we don't want to bore them with that. Yeah, so they're talking intensity of blood flow
through the carotid artery more than likely
So then after they they tested that Brad they followed these people over a 15 year period
15? Yep. For 15 years and they were monitoring their memory
And their problem-solving ability. Okay, and what they found is the people that had the higher pressure
higher intensity
Actually had the most decline in their memory and problem solving
So to me how I interpret that is
Is a lot of times with the arteries if you start to get like plaque in them and they start to narrow up
That increases the pressure actually and that pressure
These you know, the arteries that are in your brain are very small and they're very sensitive
I think you can damage them easy, sure, you damage the arteries you damage the blood flow
you're not going to be able to think as well, you know, I guess regardless of what
the mechanism is, they still found that relationship between
the high blood pressure, the intensity there and the dementia symptoms. So I'm going to talk about a couple other studies though Brad.
Okay, there's other studies that have shown that if you can increase the blood flow to your brain
So not increasing the pressure but increasing the blood flow, so the volume
The volume or the amount, the quality probably, you're gonna increase a person's executive function and attention will improve
So you're gonna ask well, how do you increase blood flow to the brain? What's the answer?
Well Bob, as physical therapists we know exercise and this is another reason you're gonna want to do regular exercise,
Especially cardiovascular a lot of the studies have shown that if you can increase the blood flow
Your risk of dementia is going to decrease so, you know
walking biking running
Anything else? Swimming!
Sure I just swam this morning Bob. You know, I'm just thinking that's not myself right now
I think this has to do a lot with if you're relaxed person
I think you have better, you know your muscles relax. Everything improves overall. That makes a difference too,
I think if you have stress, I think that affects even blood flow to some extent.
In my opinion, in our opinion of course, we concur.
Yeah, so alright
So we just wanted to pass it on to you
That you know another reason to add exercise to your life on a regular basis is you know
You want to be able to keep sharp. Keep mentally acute, right from the neck up. Keep that healthy as well as everything down here.
Thanks for watching. This is a short video, Bob, what happened? I know.