♪Bob and Brad ♪
♪the two most famous ♪
♪physical therapists ♪
♪on the internet ♪
- Hi folks, I'm Bob Schrupp, physical therapist.
- Brad Heineck, physical therapist.
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- I'm excited we have a guest today, Brad.
- Yeah.
- I'll announce him in just a minute.
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Today, we're gonna talk about gamers,
the single best way to improve
speed, reflexes and efficiency.
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- Yeah, you did a nice job, Bob.
- Alright so announcing.
Making the big announcement here.
Our guest today is actually someone related to him.
- Yeah.
He's my uncle.
No, I'm his uncle.
- Well, you're his uncle,
and that you're nephew.
- He's waiting, Bob.
- Right.
And so here he is, Ryan,
what's his last name?
- Ryan come.
come on in, have a seat.
- Come on in, have a seat.
I'll give up my seat.
- Yeah.
- So, Ryan also has his own channel.
Is it a called a channel?
- Yeah. You could consider it that.
I stream every day on Twitch,
usually after school hours.
Just every day,
most weekdays and some weekends.
- So check it out.
Gotta give a name for it.
- LingLing Gaming on Twitch.
- L I N,
- L I N G.
- Yeah, LingLing_Gaming.
- D'you have to put under score?
- You don't have to.
- You just put a little line.
- Yeah, you just put under score.
Anything if you think otherwise.
- I don't know what that means.
- But they do. They understand.
Gamers know what you're talking about.
Yeah. Let's leave a notice.
That's older people.
Anyways, so he's got
his mouse thing there.
- Controller.
- That's how much we know.
- Alright. So Ryan and I did discuss,
how do you play the game?
What muscles and what fingers to use.
And so, we incorporated all of this
into before playing games quick routine,
that's gonna help you
improve your score, your speed,
reflexes and efficiency.
So, shall we carry on?
- Probably it's going to help
actually prevent injury to some extent.
- Exactly.
If you get tendonitis in your foam or wherever,
it's really good for that--
- All that skin, that blood flow is great.
- Right.
So the whole key is getting the muscles
that use these fingers pliable,
keep the circulation going
to prevent the injuries,
and keep things moving.
So, we're gonna start out with a simple warmup.
And I think Ryan had done some of these,
and I'm gonna give him some advice
and maybe he'll continue on,
but he's liking what we're showing so far.
You wanna put that down?
- Yeah, I can put that down.
- D'you take that to school with you?
- No.
- Good.
Anyways, let's start out.
So, I'll open and close those fingers.
Just some general range of motion,
you know, do this 10, 15 times or so,
and then we go to risk circles.
Big circles and make sure you go both directions.
My wrists are cracking.
- Yeah.
- Okay.And--
- Rice krispies in there.
- Yeah. You should hear,
we'll get a show,
Ryan's got rice krispies in his knuckles.
Now I call this the spider on the mirror stretch.
Your fingertips,
like you have your fingers on a mirror,
so they're touching.
And then with resistance,
you push in, and open up,
and close and then stretch this
to bring the wrist down.
But keep your palms together.
- It's like you're fighting yourself.
- Yeah, it is.
It's just a general warm up,
stretch and strengthening.
- Yeah.
- Ryan needs a little more practice on this,
but he's getting better all the time. Good.
Okay. Now let's do this.
We got to show him this.
Do your thing has to be right up by the net.
Do that some more.
- You can keep doing it?
- Yeah.
- How long can you do that?
Keep going.
- I can go for a while.
- That doesn't make sense here.
- You hear that, Liz?
- You have relief of gas.
And then once the gas,
that takes a little while before it goes up again.
- He's gas, he has throughout his body.
- He's got gas for every occasion.
- Okay. So if you can,
that was a side note.
We're gonna get back to the video here.
Now the thing is,
you know, looking at the muscles that control,
let's get you through this.
- I think it's a good sound.
- So, there's continuous use with your thumbs,
is that correct?
- Yes. So I use my thumb there all times very much.
- Do you have a specific game
you really like to play?
- Yeah, I have some games.
- I play a lot of rocket league,
which is, it's like soccer.
- Rocket league?
- Yeah, it's like soccer,
but with flying cars.
- Oh, I did see that one.
I didn't play it though.
- I play other games too,
like CFPs, which is like a pirate game.
That's pretty fun.
- And you've played some tournaments.
- Yeah, I played tournaments here and there.
So usually this is what especially it's for,
you know, if you want to warm up before tournaments,
you don't know how much time,
you do these exercises and it'll help you.
- Right.
So we're gonna show,
so those thumb muscles working at the policies,
brevis the pelvis at doctor and the--
We're going through to the--
The policy is a foam.
- There's a longus in there too, isn't it?
- Yeah. There is a longus,
and a brevis and the doctorates.
And, I don't know if there's a magnus.
Anyways, the policy's thumb,
I believe it's Greek.
And then this part is called,
this is not really important,
but so we know what we're talking about,
this is called your thenar eminence,
this part of your palm,
and then the hypothenar eminence.
But a lot of your muscles
that you're using with that,
we need to work on here as well here.
That's the meaty part
if you squeeze that,
you can feel there's muscle in there.
And those muscles are key to get
a massage if you will.
And actually, cause you use your pointer finger,
for the triggers,
- Yep.
- Okay.
- And then I also use the pointer finger for the bumpers.
- Oh yeah. So we've got to make sure,
at least these two are really worked well,
and we'll cover the other.
- Well I think it's because those fingers
have been held statically, they--
- Sure.
- They need it just as much as the other one.
- That's a good point.
- The blood's gonna stay
- And we're also going to work into the forearms
'cause these muscles do go up into that.
There's nothing, it doesn't stop at the wrist.
Okay. So you can put that down.
So we did that little warm up
then we're gonna go into massage.
And then we're just going to one hand,
which hand you use most often?
The right or the left?
- Yeah, probably both but I prefer my--
- So what we're gonna do,
we'll start out with the thumb,
and the thenar eminence.
- Yeah.
- Thenar, is a Greek word,
you can just work those muscles
and you're gonna just work
aggressively and get in deep.
Yep.
You know, if you can get someone at home,
maybe your mother would do this for you.
Maybe not.
- Very unlikely though.
- Yeah.
But you can see,
we're getting into those muscles,
and you wanna get circulation going
and get those muscles to relax.
- And be circular in motion,
aren't you Ryan a little bit?
- Yep.
- There you go. Now you got it.
- Yeah. Circular versus just going cross.
- There you go.
Now get it in there.
I can do some linear,
We can do some circular motion,
and we wanna get over it to the palm.
And everyone's gonna have their own,
you know, after you do this for a while,
you're gonna find that your thumb
that you're doing
is probably gonna get a little sore.
And we've got a solution for that.
- Right.
- We'll show you just a minute.
- 'Cause it's a little bit non-productive in some way,
because you're working one thumb while--
- Yeah.
- You do the other hand.
- Yeah.
- So you're gonna wear out,
and then you're going to fatigue for the game.
So you're not gonna do this.
So the solution for that is,
as nowadays they have these massage guns,
which, and this is, we didn't have,
they didn't have these when we did the other video.
- Right.
- Especially a little one like this,
this really works well.
Here. Go ahead, Ryan.
- Which one did you like--
- Pointers?
- Well, if I use this one, this one's better
for the forearm.
- Sure.
We'll go ahead.
- So if I use this,
go right in the foam,
right in the wrist kind of,
up and down the arm,
feels good.
- What's nice about that one,
it's very compact.
- Oh yeah the whole thing is--
- It's very powerful.
- It is.
- I mean surprisingly.
- Yeah.
Actually we did use the big one before
and it was too much.
- It wasn't really,
- It worked, you had to turn it on low,
but he said, this is definitely--
- Right.
- Better for the hand.
Not so much for the wrist
'cause this does have a little more power to it.
- These aren't huge muscles.
So if you're going into the quadricep or calf,
then you want to maybe
hit with the big one.
- And you may do this,
you know, a couple of minutes,
three minutes on each arm,
and you know, after you doing it,
you're gonna know which muscles are gonna feel better.
But we want, let's go up into the hand now.
- Okay.
- And now you probably wanna put the pointer on.
- Now let's put the pointer on.
- Okay.
- You'll see what we mean by the pointer.
There's actually five different massage heads.
We decided the field go one
is not gonna be used.
- That's for a different area.
- But now you can get into that.
- Now look at that.
He can easily do this without fatiguing.
- Right.
- The work hand.
And it's just gonna do a better job too.
- Oh yeah.
- I think,
- Yeah.
And see, he can go straight into it,
like straight in,
but sometimes that gets too aggressive,
so he's actually going at an angle,
and working it right in that groove,
in that gap with that muscles that are being used so much.
- I think the thing about this
is it could be done before, obviously,
but also can be done after.
- Sure.
- Working out too,
to help again, prevent injury.
This is again what Tom Brady is doing
to some extent with all of his muscles.
- Right.
- He's keeping them pliable,
and that's why he's able to compete
at age 33 or whatever he is.
- If you're wondering what massage gun this is,
if you want to get a good one,
you'll get the Bob and Brad one.
We do like this one,
that's what we put our name on it.
It works beautifully for this particular.
It's just ideal.
- Well, we'll put a link below.
- Yeah, it'll all be connected.
The round line,
you kind of like too,
but you liked that one better to get in there.
- Yeah. It's better for the hand.
- Yep. Sure.
- But the round one,
that round one you could use on her forearm too.
- Now we do have one bonus.
You're gonna work there.
You just can't get them away from it.
When you get done with this,
your hands just feel kind of tingling, right?
- Yeah. I feel kind of weird to be honest,
but it feels good after.
- It wakes them up.
- They're ready for action.
- Yeah,
now Ryan,
he came up with a little precursor
to game a little warmup that he's gonna show,
and it's not cracking his knuckles,
but it is show him what you do.
You use these major,
I would call them ball berries,
but they're steel balls,
about two inches in diameter.
- This is what I've been using before,
I still incorporate them.
Usually I use them every day.
- Oh, I tried this and I could go one direction,
but I couldn't do it.
- You can go like this.
You gotta get used to it.
Otherwise it's pretty hard.
- I can see where that's going to get things warmed up.
- Right. Just kind of, it kind of works everything.
- And those balls are heavy, by the way.
- Yeah.
- If you put your foot down, they would drop.
- You could break something.
- That'd be a good testimonial.
- So yeah. You just go--
- So you do that just a minute or two,
- Minute or two.
- Each direction. And you could get smaller ones.
- Yes but, you know, these work too.
- And you got those from your uncle, right?
- Yeah. I got them from my uncle.
- How come he gave you such big ones?
- I don't know.
He thought I had maybe I had bigger hands.
- Yeah.
- I got pretty small hands.
- Plus you're growing too.
You're still growing, he's about,
you're gonna be six foot pretty soon.
- A quick question for our older audience,
- Yeah.
- There was a movie,
where the captain of the ship
would spin balls around on his hand
and there was a mutiny on his ship
but it was a famous actor,
and a famous movie, so--
- Mutiny on the Bounty?
- I don't think that's how it was called.
I'm not saying it,
because I don't remember
the name of it right now, myself.But--
- Ryan, did you like it?
- Alright.
- I don't know.
- Somebody put it in the comments below.
They'll know what I'm talking about.
- Nobody's watching anymore.
We're too late in the video.
- Thanks for watching.
- Take care.