♪ Bob and Brad ♪
♪ The two most famous ♪
♪ Physical therapists ♪
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- 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.
- Darn my hand and wrist hurt from gaming.
- Well, stop gaming.
- Yeah, now we're gonna actually show you,
for those of you who do a lot of computer work,
or if you do gaming, we're gonna show you
how to calm things down or stay ahead of it.
Because if you can prevent it,
it's even better than dealing with it after it arises.
- Especially if the gamers are into that competition.
And you really, you know, it gets pretty serious.
- Yes, it does.
So we're gonna show you, you know,
the first thing we think you need to understand
is the muscles of the wrist and hand and fingers,
they originate in the forearm.
They start, you know, on the front side here
and also on the backside.
So we're just gonna take a minute to show you
these muscles so you can believe what you see
instead of what you hear from us.
- Real, pretty pictures.
- Okay, just briefly, we want to show you
how the muscles of the forearm
extend all the way into the fingers.
And they cause the fingers to straighten and flex,
and also moves the wrist to extend and flex.
So Brad, you want to show first the muscles,
that's the front of the forearm.
- So right here.
So we got the brachioradialis.
Oh, look at that right there.
You want me to go through all of them?
- No, no, no.
Just show that there's a lot of muscles there.
- Yeah, there are.
And of course they all come down into here
and they turn into tendons.
- You can see it right here, actually.
- Yeah, that's a good view.
- Yeah, these are the same muscles.
They're coming from here and they're going into the hand.
Here on this one is the back of the forearm
and you can actually see how it does.
They extend all the way into the fingers and the wrist.
But that's why we're gonna be massaging these areas
to hopefully affect the pain
that may be happening at your wrist or your fingers.
- If these muscles get tight they put.
- More stress.
- Stress on all the tendons and into the hands.
And you don't have as much mobility
and you won't be as fast.
- Yeah, your reflexes will be decreased.
- That's right.
- Now that you see the muscles,
we're gonna show you, you can go ahead,
and I think one of the best ways,
now you can do this manually too.
But then you can develop soreness in the other hand from.
- Exactly.
So you're gonna use both hands for a lot of those.
- Yeah, for gaming.
- Yeah, the what do you call it?
What do you call those balls things?
- [Mike] The controllers.
- The controllers.
There you go, thank you.
- Mike knows what it is.
- Yeah, I haven't started gaming yet.
- We're really experts on this.
But we are experts on pain control.
So what you're gonna do,
I think it's gonna really pay off for you
to get a massage gun because it's very easy to use.
We've got a whole array of them.
Brad's gonna show our standard one there.
Here's a mini one that, it's called a U2.
It's actually quite inexpensive.
But it's very powerful.
- And for the hand, that might even be the one to get.
- Yeah, this might be the one to get
because it works really quite well.
And I liked the fact
that it's got different attachments, as they all do.
And it's also got five different speeds.
- You know, if you already have a bigger one,
you don't have to buy that, you know.
And you know, we did do some consult.
My nephew's a gamer and he was on.
And we talked to him extensively.
He does compete.
You know, he's not a world champion or anything
but you know, he's not bad.
- Sure.
So, and he is using this?
- Yeah, he's got the smaller one.
He liked that one a little bit better.
- So yeah, again, I've got a
kind of a flatter rounder head on here.
It's slightly oval here and Brad's got the air one.
That one you can actually go over bones and it won't hurt.
- Yes, cushy. Real cushy.
- But you know, we showed you some of the muscles
you can just hit the, you know, you really don't need
to know the names of the muscles.
- No.
- But you can just start working the areas
that if you find a trigger point,
you go ahead and you can actually work,
stay right on that trigger point for awhile.
- And you know it's a trigger point
'cause it's more sensitive
and it's gonna hurt a little bit.
And if you go, if you get direct and go right
on that (indistinct) right there
and it just is too sensitive,
don't just, you know, hammer on it.
Work around it. - Work around it.
- And then work yourself into it.
- Now, the other thing you can do with this actually
is some of you might be having pain
right at the base of your thumb here.
And these tendons here.
That's called De Quervain's Tenosynovitis.
Which I'm sure it's a mouthful, and it is.
- It just means that those tendons are sore.
- Yeah, and they got fired up
and they need to calm down.
And sometimes there's a little scar tissue in there.
- Those tendons are responsible for that thumb movement.
And obviously there's quite a bit of that going on.
- Now, you can take a lot of different heads
that will work on this.
The round head works.
Brad came up with this, by the way.
What you do is you turn on the unit.
By the way, there's a little bit of delay.
It takes a three second push to turn it on.
And you're actually gonna go,
and instead of directly on it, you're gonna go side.
Now, the ball would probably the way to start.
But eventually,
if you want to get a little bit more pinpoint,
you can use one more like this.
And you can actually hit right over to 10.
And if, again, if it's too tender,
and it's just getting worse and worse as you do this,
back off it's too soon.
But if you do it for a while
and it almost starts to feel numb
after about 30 seconds, you're golden.
- Right.
- This is what you want to do.
This is the, you're breaking up the scar tissue.
You're getting more blood flow to the area.
- And then you can continue to do it
for a couple more minutes.
But you know, the first time you do it
I wouldn't just work on it for 10 minutes.
You got to see how it responds
after you get done. - See how it is the next day.
- And how it feels the next day.
Exactly.
- Now you can also, what's nice about this,
you can massage the back of the hand.
There's just not enough.
- Yeah, it's just skin and bone tendon, you know.
- So it'd be uncomfortable,
but you definitely can hit the palms.
The meaty part, Thenar, Hypothenar Eminence
- Yup, that's those patty parts of your palm.
You know, and I can, I like this round one for this one
because you can go in at the side
and you can gently work into it this way
and be more aggressive.
- Mike probably doesn't know which one to follow.
(Brad chuckles)
- We can go up into the pads too here.
Up into the base of the fingers.
- Yup, mines at five, no wonder.
I got to slow this down, okay.
- You can even hit the fingers a little bit Brad.
- Sure.
- This feels good.
- Yeah, it's gonna increase the circulation
in your hands, and the blood flow
and get that soreness out so you've got some recovery.
And don't forget didn't we talk about
doing the muscles back here?
- We hit the muscles in the front,
but yeah we're gonna hit the muscles
on the back of the forearm too.
- These are probably not as critical.
You know, they're responsible for
having your fingers lift up.
- Ah, But there's still wrist.
- They're still working.
- Yeah, they're still working. - Yup, for sure.
- Boy, mines a little bit sore.
It's cause I've been golfing.
- Oh!
- Yeah, that's (indistinct).
- We should have the golfers on and show them about this.
- Yeah, yeah.
All right, well, pretty easy to do.
Pretty easy to use.
And you can experiment using the different heads.
This video, by the way,
is a part of series of videos on massage.
You can go to bobanbrad.com,
go to the program section
and under you're gonna find a whole bunch of programs
we have on sciatica, and tens unit, and hip pain and.
- Knee pain, back pain.
Go to the one on the, you know,
obviously you're gonna go to the one you want to,
click on it, pick out the name of the video.
There'll be, they're all in one area.
- Yeah, we got like 30 ones on massage.
So you could use this gun
for all over the whole entire body.
- Right. Exactly.
Look at it.
We have a PDF printout.
So you can print out a review of the whole video,
the exercises or the massage technique.
And then the beauty of it is, it's free Bob.
- That's right.
- There's no charge.
- That's right.
Unless Brad started doing something on the side here.
- Yeah, but I, that's not gonna happen
'cause I can't figure out a program.
But the other thing is,
is that we don't even ask your email.
So it's completely free.
- It's, friction, no friction.
- Yeah, frictionless.
- Okay, thanks for watching.
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