♪ Bob and Brad, ♪
♪ the two most famous physical therapists ♪
♪ on the internet. ♪
- Hi folks, I'm Mike Kenitz, Physical Therapist Assistant.
- Brad Heineck, Physical Therapist.
- And together,
we're the most famous physical therapists on the internet.
- Somethin's not right here Mike.
- What? - In our opinion, of course,
actually Bob is on vacation.
Mike is a filling in for us, and we're happy to have him.
And we're gonna continue on,
and the title of this video is
the Best Knee Strengthening Exercise after Surgery,
and that's including total knee, meniscus, or ACL surgery.
- Plus a giveaway.
- And the giveaway relates directly to this video,
what do we have buddy?
- Yes, you can check us out
on Instagram, Twitter, and TikTok
for a 60 second version of our program,
or you can find the giveaway pinned
to the top of our Facebook
or go to bobandbrad.com/giveaways
to find out what it is.
- The giveaway is, the knee glide.
- [Mike] Yes.
- Which you're going to find out
how useful this can be for after surgery
as well as before before surgery.
- Yep.
- So there is, last I looked,
over 800,000 total knee replacements.
I don't have the number for ACL and meniscus surgeries,
but they're well into the hundreds of thousands.
So there's a great need for rehabbing the knee
prior to surgery and after the surgery.
Typically what has been done in the past.
- Is the towel.
- The therapist will come into the therapy room,
and they'll take a towel and throw it down,
and they say, "Wax the floor."
And that works okay, there's nothing wrong with that,
but there can be better, and there is.
And what we found, and actually what we invented,
is the knee glide because with the knee glide,
the benefits are, it works great on a flat surface.
You don't need a towel, and on carpeting at home,
if you put the towel down, it does not work.
- Yeah, you can use this on any flooring you want.
You have made prototypes
when I first started working for you,
and we've been testing these things out for years now.
- It's been about eight years, they're completely perfected.
Now the other thing that works,
that you cannot get with a towel,
is you can put 'em on a incline.
Now you're gonna start doing range of motion after surgery,
oftentimes the very next day,
you've gotta get that joint moving.
There'll be,
may be some instances where that's not the case,
but total knees almost always.
And this works great.
Your knee hurts, it's sore,
but you gotta get it moving,
and you get it going and on the flat.
Now Mike has his at an angle
where he's gonna emphasize the hamstring strength.
- [Mike] Yep.
This might not be early on.
This would be more for strengthening later on down the road.
- Yeah, maybe a couple of weeks, three weeks down the road.
- [Mike] Yep.
- You can do it this way.
We find that when you put it on an incline,
this direction works really well
right after that first week after surgery.
For one thing, you're going downhill makes it easier.
It changes the angle of the ankle joint,
and for some reason, we're not 100% certain,
but we always have better luck
when you put it on an incline if someone's having problems.
We have the patient go like this with their strong leg,
put a little passive range.
We always find that people get better range
when they do the pressure
versus the therapist going on there and pushing.
- [Mike] Yeah, shoving it in there.
- Right, because that's, they're not in control.
Then people don't feel comfortable
when somebody else is in control of a painful joint.
Mike, you got some more comments
on that aspect of the knee glide?
- Yeah, the flat is okay to do.
I feel like when I get here, it gets tight on my ankles.
I just have tight ankles cause I've sprained 'em both,
but just having that little bit of an incline
really helps me be able to bring it back there
without having that ankle issues, so.
- [Brad] And then going uphill this direction
does put a little more emphasis on quad strength,
so that's another benefit.
The other really nice thing about it is
you can use this for prehab.
- Yep.
- So before surgery,
we have some surgeons and people that will use it prior.
So they get used to the equipment and get that knee moving,
and to be honest with you, people say,
I use this more.
The towel kinda works,
but I actually have a piece of equipment here,
and the compliance, and the ability,
or the motivation to use this is much higher than a towel,
not to mention it works so much better.
- We started sending these out
with all our total knee replacement people.
We send 'em home
'cause we keep numerous ones at our locations,
and they all love it.
And they just,
when they're done and don't need it anymore,
they bring it back,
but we've always gotten good reviews on it.
- And they're made out of a nice plastic
and extruded aluminum, easy to clean.
You can disinfect them very easily.
You know, there's nothing on here
that's going to absorb any moisture.
- If you're skeptical of this,
Alex and I used to kinda make fun of this product
when they first made us test it.
After using it with patients, it actually does work.
It seems simple, but it's effective.
- Right, and the other thing, they're light,
this is about 3.1 pounds,
you can carry it with you anywhere.
Too big for your purse though,
so you're not gonna put it in your purse,
but easy to carry and got a handle.
You can hang it up on the wall.
So it is our give away.
We love this product, and if you want one,
you're gonna have a surgery,
you may wanna check it out and see it.
It's on a, go below, there's a link below the video,
that'll get you right to one.
And we've sold 1,000s of 'em over the last three years.
- You can also go to bobandbrad.com product section,
they sell 'em there too, if you don't win the give away, so.
- That's right.
So one way or another,
we continue to strive to fix everything except for.
- A broken heart.
- And, I'm afraid the knee glide
is not gonna help there either.
- But if you put it right here.
- No, no, no, forget it.
- Are you sure?
- Forget it. - Okay.
Take care and enjoy and good luck with your knee surgery.
- Thanks for watchin'.