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I'm Bob Schrupp, physical therapist.
- Brad Heineck, physical therapist.
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- Today, we're gonna show you how to relieve,
stop painful itching, debilitating foot pain,
and we're gonna do it in three steps.
- That's right, Bob,
You gotta keep good care of your feet,
particularly as you get older, but at any age,
if your feet are not healthy,
it affects your whole life throughout the whole day.
- Yeah, our basketball coach spent a lot of time on this
in the initial meetings that we had.
- Really? - Yeah,
because if you got bad feet, you can't play.
- Yeah, it's not a good locker room adventure either.
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Okay, so feet.
We want to talk about feet,
because it is a major thing in your life
if you wanna stay healthy and fit and active.
- You can't run, you can't walk.
You can't do anything if your feet give out.
- Most of your exercise activities involve weight-bearing
through your feet.
So common things, athlete foot, fungus,
you've got bacteria.
Your feet are stuck in these shoes.
They heat up, they sweat.
It's a perfect environment
for all those nasty little things to grow.
Calluses.
By the way, calluses are often caused
as a result of excess perspiration.
- Oh, they are?
- Well, you have the rubbing,
but along with it, it all works together.
Bunions.
People oftentimes buy their shoes
with the toe box too narrow,
or if you're wearing, what are they, high heels or pumps,
or whatever those are, and you're up on your toes
and your feet slide down into it,
continually putting that pressure, narrowing that toe box.
- That's now for the cause of bunions.
- Right, exactly.
So that's one of the easy ones.
Ounce of prevention can go a long ways
to prevent everything we just talked about.
So that's all gonna talk about,
step number one, the basics, Bob, keep your feet clean.
It is one of those things that's hard
if you're standing in a shower and you're trying
to scrub your feet between your toes, you're tipping over,
especially when you get a little bit older.
It's nice to have- - You could have a bench.
- A bench, yeah.
Actually, we bought a shower that has a built in stool
to sit on.
It's very handy, works great.
Make sure when you dry your feet, dry your feet well,
even between the toes.
That's where a lot of things can start growing there.
- Very fast.
- And you can actually take your hairdryer.
And if you really want to be thorough and complete,
dry things out there,
and it's gonna help keep those nasty things
from growing there.
As a matter of fact, part of the reason I'm doing this,
because recently I had athlete's foot.
- Oh you did? - Yeah.
It drives you crazy at night, 'cause it itches,
and it's not a good thing.
- Was is it the bottom of the foot, or where-
- It was on my toes.
But it was, because I was wearing Crocs.
You know what Crocs are? - Of course, I do.
- They're these really great shoes to go out really quickly
and come in if it's wet outside, that kind of a thing.
But I found out, they are rubber
and you have to clean them.
And so I think what was happening
is I did not keep up with my-
- Sweating in them, probably pretty easy too.
- Yeah, so Crocs are probably not the best thing
to wear long-term, short things.
So the other thing is foot powder.
Foot powder can be a nice thing.
I use the Arm and Hammer, but-
- Did you just start, or were you-
- No, I don't use it as a maintenance.
I only use it when I have problems.
If you do these other things,
you don't need to use it.
- Is that a medicated foot powder?
They do have some of those too.
- Right, they do, and it's gonna be an individual thing.
I'm not trying to promote Arm and Hammer.
It's been around forever.
My mom used to use it.
Dad used it, so what the hell?
Oops.
(Bob laughs) Sorry about that.
- It's a family show! - Yeah, I know.
I got carried away.
Step number two is not only keep your feet clean,
but this is big is keep clean socks every day.
I don't care who you are.
You need to put a clean pair of socks on.
And if you happen to have sweaty feet,
this is called hyperhidrosis is a term for it.
You sweat profusely, more than average,
and it's oftentimes at the bottom of your feet
or on your hands.
I looked it up at Mayo
where Bob is an alumni there,
so we appreciate the information they have.
And so it is a thing that you know
if you have hyperhidrosis.
Your feet sweat a lot.
- Actually do you know someone has it?
- Who? - Our office manager.
- Huh?
- Our office manager. - Oh really?
- Shh.
- Between the both of us,
we know two people that have it,
but the one person I talked to yesterday,
what he did is he changes his socks three times per day.
And he said it makes a big difference.
And there's one other thing that both you and Tanner
are not aware of is this is what he does.
He uses one of these.
- Really, what is it? (laughs)
- This is a shoe backslash foot dryer.
Now I have this because I use it with my hunting boots
when I go out and get them wet.
What you do,
I don't have my boots here,
but that's why they have a long neck,
is you put your shoes in here like this.
Now this you plug in.
It has a little heater in here.
Because of that heat rises, it creates the chimney effect.
The air goes up into here, flows through the feet,
and dries out your shoe overnight.
So every day you have a dry pair of shoes to put on.
- So does it come with this attachment automatically, or?
- Yeah.
Yep, that comes off too.
But with boots or if you have those long boots,
some people have the boots that come up to your knees,
then you want it long.
But if you really have a problem,
I highly suggest to get the one
with the forced air ventilators.
They have not only a heat,
but they have a fan in there which blows the air up,
because these work for me.
- They just heat?
- Yeah, there's just he heat, but there's no fan in there.
So you need more air flow to dry it out.
Because when I do this with my pair of boots
and they've been wet,
overnight, they barely get dry.
- Sure, it takes a long time.
- Yep, and you wanna have...
You can look it up.
They sell a number of different kinds.
The ones that enough for four, for posts,
you can get two pairs, four shoes.
And they have a fan,
and you can tell they're really doing the job.
- We should have had one of these
when my son was playing basketball.
I mean, those shoes, you could tell where they were
in the house by smell. - I'm surprised
you weren't aware of this. - Never heard of it before.
- So if you haven't heard of these,
there's probably a lot of people who haven't.
They're not real expensive.
The ones with the fans, the better ones are.
You're getting around $100 range.
But if they keep your feet dry and they change your life,
like it did to the person I was talking to,
he said it's just a no-brainer once you've realized
it's like why didn't I do this years ago?
- You can put your socks on there too?
- Oh yeah, absolutely.
That is the other thing.
We're gonna talk a little bit about socks.
There's so many different kinds of socks.
I would just recommend going online,
and you can put in the 10 best socks to wear
for sweaty feet.
And find the ones you want, and then buy them by the gross.
Buy 20, 30 of them or whatever.
These happen to be...
You can buy socks.
These are compressive garments.
- I was gonna say. - Yep, they go up to the knee.
And if, say, you have swelling or you have diabetic,
or I have this a little bit, varicose veins,
then it's worth getting the tall socks that come up to here
that are compressive, and make sure you get the kind
that are compressive like a cone.
In other words, they'll tell you how many millimeters
of pressure they put on here.
So it may be 20 here, 15 or 20 around the foot.
And then as it goes up, it gets less.
Tighter here, less here.
- The fluid has to go out of your body.
It gets processed up in your abdomen.
So it's gotta be pushed this way.
If you tighter here and looser here,
it's gonna push it down into the foot.
- The only thing about these,
they're quite a bit more expensive.
- And hard to put on.
- They're are harder to put on.
So that's kind of another video.
- The other thing is I think they're hotter.
So you're gonna sweat more.
- Well, that depends on what you get too,
'cause I've had some people
that had different types, different manufacturers.
They found significant difference.
Again, that's another video.
I just wanted to bring up the compression garment
as part of foot care.
So keep your feet dry, keep them clean,
lots of sock changing, and keep your footwear dry.
The best thing, obviously it's a seasonal thing,
but go out with sandals.
Something they can breathe in the air,
and then you gotta make sure you've got good quality ones
that you don't stumble and fall.
But, Bob, the next thing we wanna talk about
is our third category is the physical needs of your feet.
We talked about a narrow toe box.
Don't get a narrow one.
Make sure you have plenty of room.
And foot callus.
Now this is something you are...
This is Bob's baby. - Slightly obsessed with it.
(Bob laughs)
- It's made a big difference in your ability
to walk and run, correct? - Yes, it does,
'cause I'll find every like a couple of weeks
I'll get to the point where like I'm having pain in my foot,
on the bottom of my foot, and I take the calluses down
and the pain goes away.
- So you get calluses on the bottom of your feet
for whatever reason?
- I'm gonna read this off here.
It's called the Microplane Foot File.
And I had said, well, I'm not supposed to say this,
a foot fetish. (laughs)
But that's not apparently anything to do with feet
as far as-
- Bob, just get one with the program.
- What you're gonna see,
I don't know if you can get close up on this.
- There we go. - So I'm gonna go ahead
and you can actually see the white stuff filing off.
- [Brad] Yeah, why are you laughing Tanner?
- [Bob] This is awesome.
- [Brad] I should have brought my four inch grinder
with the power wheel.
- [Bob] This thing is the most beautiful thing.
- [Brad] So you're saying as a result of doing this,
you're more comfortable running and walking.
- Oh, absolutely.
I always get like on the outside of my foot.
I get a callus there.
I feel it right now actually.
And it starts to hurt after a while.
- I think an analogy is just think when you have a stone
that got into your shoe and it's uncomfortable to walk.
It's the same thing, but maybe not as pronounced.
Now my daughter knowing this about me,
she did buy me this it's called Own Harmony for Men.
- Zoom in on this.
I thought this is the coolest thing.
- Well it is, but it doesn't work as well as that.
It doesn't.
- And this thing really isn't that expensive.
I think this is only like a 10 or $12 item.
Whoa.
- But this is a little grinder.
- [Brad] But the "Tool Time" Tim and me say this is cool.
- [Bob] Yeah, but it's not that strong.
- [Brad] It's not even making any filing.
- [Bob] No, it isn't
That's what the problem was.
My daughter goes- - It's doing it.
You could do this for the course work
and do finish work with that.
- [Bob] This one works to get around the toes,
but my daughter she couldn't believe me.
She said, "No, this is better."
And I go, "No, it's not."
- I wonder how much it was.
- I don't know.
- But anyways, you could probably
do your toenails with that.
- Sure.
- Anyways, just another thing.
So, I think that's the mechanical
or the things you can do with your feet,
but we do have a bonus.
And the reason this is a bonus,
it's very effective to massage your feet,
because you can massage your feet,
which is good for circulation, feels good,
but your hands get tired.
And it always feels better. If you can get somebody else
to massage your feet.
I don't know why, but that's kind of hard to do.
So there is a foot massager that actually we really like
and we promote it, because it works very well.
Not only does it massage your feet,
but it compresses it for swelling.
- [Bob] You have different modes and different-
- Heats up too. - And it heats up too, yeah.
- [Brad] You use this on a regular basis.
- I use this every night.
This is my little treat.
I sit down and I'll just have a drink of like soda
or something like that.
I put it on. (Brad laughs)
And I turn TV on.
I'll watch TV for an hour and I just put my massager on.
- Get those feet massaged.
So it makes your feet feel better.
- Yeah, absolutely.
- No, it is.
It's a good unit.
So, that's below the video too, if you're interested.
But, again, the first three are vital.
Those things you really wanna do on a regular basis.
It's like brushing your teeth.
You can't go to bed without brushing your teeth.
It's the same thing with your feet.
- By the way, the person who has
that hidrosis or hyperhidrosis, she also uses it.
We got her a foot massager.
And she has neuropathy.
And I said, "Did it help your neuropathy?"
I said, "I wanna know.
"Tell me."
And she said "Yes, without a doubt,"
it helped her neuropathy,
'cause it got her more blood flow to the feet,
which helps the nerves.
- That is the thing with neuropathy.
You need to get that fluid and that circulation
- Yep, blood flow. - As much as possible.
So, very good. - Take it from her.
- All right, Bob, everyone's pretty much tuned out
by now anyways. - All right, be careful
like Brad likes to say. - This foot things
is really amazing.
Yeah, be careful with those feet.
(Bob laughs) (Brad slaps feet)
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