♪ Bob and Brad ♪
♪ The two most famous physical therapists ♪
♪ On the internet ♪
- Hi folks, I'm Bob Schrupp, physical therapists.
- Brad Heineck, physical therapist.
- Yes and we are the most famous
physical therapists on the internet.
- In our opinion, of course Bob.
- Get that energy level up, Brad.
- Oh ho, ho!
- Today we're gonna talk about
keep moving with perfect balance
using one device to make exercises, recreation
and home chores a pleasure.
What was that?
- Don't worry about it, Bob, we're doing good.
- By the way, if you're new to our channel,
please take a second to subscribe to us.
We provide videos on how to stay
healthy, fit, pain-free and we upload every day.
- That's right. - Also,
go to bobandbrad.com and go to the giveaway section
because we are giving away Pete's Choice.
And that's what we're gonna talk about today.
This foam device.
- Yeah, these cushions, we are really big fans of them.
You'll see why.
- Yeah, we have no financial incentive.
We don't get paid by them,
but we like their product, use it.
- They do, yeah, they just hold on.
All right, you can also go to Facebook.
It'll be pinned to the top of the page, contest.
Go to Twitter, Instagram or TikTok
if you want a 6 second version of our program.
There you go Bob, we have a podcast now.
- We have a podcast.
We're interviewing people and sometimes
we just talk about things.
- We've got someone from United Kingdom coming up, right?
- Yeah. - Yeah.
Right, he's a good author.
- No, New Zealand.
Oh, United Kingdom too.
- We got them all over the world actually.
- Yeah, they're all over the world.
- That's right.
So anyways, people might be wondering
what are these blue cushions?
You know, they're flexible.
They handle very well in the weather.
But as therapists, the only thing I ever used these for
for quite a while was for therapy and it was for balance.
So, and that's probably what a lot
of people are familiar with them on.
And we're gonna show you, they do work very well
because they're squishy and they have the right density.
And they're good--
- It's not too aggressive work on balance
but it's enough that, especially someone
who's just starting out.
- Right, I mean, I've worked with people
after a stroke or after a knee or ankle injury.
It's different standing here and balancing
versus on something soft.
All of a sudden different, your nervous system was working,
not completely different but differently
when you're on something soft.
So then we might progress the person
to marching on the cushion.
As they get better with that, they might get rid
of the stick or something to hold onto.
And then maybe on one foot,
now all of a sudden ankle strengthening.
- Look how much that ankle's working now.
- See that ankle move?
All right.
And if it's a higher level person
I always have fun with this.
To the athletic type people, I'll say
can you start bouncing the ball with two feet?
And they do pretty good.
Well, then I say
let's make it even more fun, let's go on one foot.
And that's kind of more challenging.
When they get better than that, then we start playing catch.
So the patient will be standing here on one foot
and then you simply play, whoa and see how Bob actually--
- Yeah, I'm getting tough right away.
- He's making it a hard, throw it right to me
or off to the side or down.
And then I'm gonna go to one foot.
And all of a sudden you can see how this
is really a challenge.
You have any other ones that you use?
- Well, no, but if you wanna, if you're that challenged
you'd to have a belt around you and have someone
hold onto you.
- Right, yeah, we'll have a..
- Safety first, or be up against a counter
or something like that.
You got a bail out.
- Exactly, yeah, someone going to that level,
they're probably high school, college athlete.
You know, wouldn't be a person after a stroke.
- Right, right, exactly.
- But then we found out that these work really good
in therapy for someone to kneel on.
If they have to get down to the floor for either an exercise
or simply if they want to, if you're working with someone
and they get off the floor and their knees
are tender or whatever it may be.
But Bob, you got to show some of the exercises
we do it with.
- This is a more advanced one, but I love doing this one.
So I'm doing a mobilization to hip.
This is something you wouldn't want to do
if you have loose hips or rheumatoid arthritis.
But I do this one every day.
I put my leg in here and I,
this band's gonna give me distraction.
It's gonna pull my hip out that way.
And I get way out like this.
And then I actually, I'm gonna kneel up
just so they can see, or sit up.
So I'm actually bringing my hip over like this
and it gets the bone, the ball back in the socket
where it's supposed to.
Stretching out the socket a little bit.
- But the point is, as far as Pete's Choice,
it's much more comfortable.
- Oh, kneeling, yes.
- So using that, I think another stretch that's more common
for the average person is just where you're trying
to do your hip flexor.
And this is really uncomfortable on my knee cap
on a hard floor particularly.
So anytime you're doing an exercise where your knees are
on the floor, you can certainly use Pete's Choice pad
for that as well.
- This is a weird one, Brad, I'm like,
of course I'm a weirdo but when I do reading sometimes,
just because I don't wanna sit all the time
or I don't want to lie down all the time.
I actually go to the edge of the bed like this
and read like this.
And it's just really comfortable.
It's great for someone with back pain because sitting
is often bad for people with back pain.
And this is a way to, it actually gets a little traction
almost on the back.
You're kind of leaning on this.
So my nephew did this.
- And for certain religions, Catholics, you could,
pray at the bed, you kneel on it.
- Pick on the Catholics right away, I'm Catholic you know.
- I'm not picking on them, I'm saying it's a good thing.
Prayers, good, keep the knees healthy.
The next thing is foot rest.
Now I use this on my desk, well let's say you're sitting
at your desk, wherever it may be
and your feet don't quite touch the floor.
And you need a little extra inch or two,
and you put the Pete's Choice on it.
I don't know if Pete's Choice ever promoted this
but we really find.
And plus downstairs, I got, well, it's a hard floor.
And in the wintertime, it's cold.
'Cause I don't have my shoes on,
I've got stocking foot and that's what I prefer.
But my feet get cold so I put the Pete's Choice under there
and all of a sudden it becomes much warmer
and I'm very comfortable.
- Well, I keep it under my desk
and I do some balance activities with my standing desk.
And also just once in a while,
just for difference, different surface.
- So you're working and you're standing on it.
So then you're challenging.
- Right, right, right. - Oh, great.
Plus you're exercising your ankles
a little bit and those muscles.
- Yeah, you can even go off the edge like this
and stretch the calves a little bit.
- Oh sure, yeah, yep.
Now this is, I've got a deck outside
and on these cooler mornings, I like to go outside,
have my coffee, watch the birds.
And I put this on my chair outside.
And boy, does that make a difference.
It makes it from a chilly, oh I'm drinking my coffee
to ah, you just settle right into this.
- Right there, reminds me you've got to bring it
to a football game.
- Oh, right, exactly, on the bleachers.
Yep, everyone will be looking at you then
because they are, they're really warm.
It's just like a little warmer.
- Do you think they're waterproof?
- Oh yes, 'cause I leave mine outside
on the deck in the rain.
- You do? - Yeah.
I just leave it out there.
I bring it in if I'm going to go on the floor.
If I have to, you know, if my wife's mad
and I got to clean the floor up from the mess I made.
It's a lot easier to kneel on it, but--
- And beg your forgiveness of her?
- Well, whatever it takes, Bob, it works.
- Now, speaking of which,
you also use it for your mom, right?
- Right, my mother lives at an assisted living home.
For her to come outside so we can enjoy the weather
and have a conversation outside.
She has a difficult time getting off the chairs outside.
So what I do is I put this down and then she sits on that
which gives her an extra inch and a half or so elevation.
And as therapists--
- What a difference that makes.
- That can make the difference between
struggling to get up to an easy get up.
- I've trained patients that couldn't get out of a chair
and we started with this.
Worked on doing repetitions, like 10 of them.
And when we got to 10, then we could take it away
and they could do it without it then.
So it's a good progression for someone
who has weakness in the legs.
- And then when I'm out in the garage, I got concrete floors
and kneeling on concrete is just no fun.
I just take my Pete's Choice and put it down there.
And boy, does that make the task.
- Yeah, my wife uses it for painting all the time.
I'm surprised this one doesn't have white stain on it.
- Oh, I thought there was a little bit of paint on there.
Let me see.
Oh, I do take mine, I've taken mine hunting.
- You? - Yeah.
- What do you do with it hunting?
- Sit on it or kneel.
- In the tree?
- No, no, on the ground.
I don't go in a tree, but you could take it up at a tree
if you had something to sit on, but they're really warm
and we've got to make them camouflage.
- There we go. - Or orange.
(laughing)
Ah, let me see what other things have we used these
for in the past?
- I think that's about what I do, Brad.
I don't know if you've got anything else.
- Right, so the whole thing started with balancing
or kneeling on in therapy to becoming a household device
that makes your life easier.
- My wife, yeah she's like, where'd you put it?
- Yeah, where's the Pete's Choice?
- Where's the Pete's Choice?
- So once again, we're not getting any reimbursement
from Pete, we just love the product.
- We like it.
- They're not very expensive and they can really
make your life easier, especially as you get a little older.
- Yeah, which we are.
- Good luck.
Once again, we can fix anything--
- Just about anything.
- But a broken heart.
- Right and the Pete's Choice I don't think
is gonna fit in the--
- We will give you relationship advice.
- Oh really? - Yeah.
- I wonder if Pete's Choice could work on that.
- Oh really. (chuckling)
All right thanks for watching.
- We digress.