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- Brad Heineck, Physical Therapist.
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- This is Sam the Skeleton.
Today we're gonna talk about
the secret reason infrared heat can heal
neck, back, shoulder, hip pain, and more.
We're big fans of the infrared heat,
and we're gonna show you in a minute why.
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So.
With a regular heating pad,
what a lot of people don't realize, Brad,
it doesn't matter if it's moist or radiant heat,
it only penetrates like a few millimeters.
- Right.
- And that's indicated by this red right here.
- [Brad] Right.
You can figure, quarter inch at the most.
- Right, quarter inch.
Now, with infrared heat,
we're gonna move right down...
And we actually have how many inches, Brad?
- [Brad] 2.36. - 2.36.
Look at the difference between that.
Look how much more that penetrates.
- Right. So the red area
represents the depth it penetrates by infrared.
And on the opposite end of the stick,
it shows your typical convection heat.
So two to three millimeters versus 60 millimeters.
- [Brad] Sure.
- If you wanna go with the metric system.
Now why this makes a big difference.
I'm gonna show you first
how it makes a big difference on the spine.
So this is the spine, I pulled it right off of Sam, here.
Your head would be here, normally,
and the legs come off here.
But if you look closely here,
and Liz, I guess we didn't practice this, did we?
Should I get closer to you?
So there's little joints here.
On every level, it's a joint.
Just like almost like a knee joint.
Joint on this side, joint on this side. Facets.
- [Brad] Yeah. Fah-set, or fac-ets.
- Facets.
- [Brad] Depends what part of the world you're from.
- So I pull apart there,
you can actually see two of the joints there.
- [Brad] Right, there we go.
- So every level of the neck has...
We have 14 joints in the neck.
You've got the mid back, you've got...
- [Brad] 24. - 24.
And in the low back...
- [Brad] 10! - 10! Good man.
- Unless you got six lumbar.
But one way or another...
And that's where you're gonna get arthritis in your back,
is in the facet joints.
- And that's where it's gonna hurt.
- [Brad] Right.
- So if you use regular heat,
and you gotta picture there's gonna be
some skin over the top, and muscle, and all that.
- [Brad] Right.
- You can see it doesn't even get to the joints.
- [Brad] It gets through the skin, maybe.
- Right. - [Brad] And then that's it.
- But if you use 2.36 inches.
36? - [Brad] Yup. 2.36.
There we go.
You can see, even if the person has subcutaneous tissue,
in other words fat, it's still gonna get through there
and get to those facet joints.
And it's going to go through the muscle as well,
and the muscle's gonna get warmed up.
- Right.
- Increased circulation, all those things that heat does,
that we want it to do.
- Now I use the Thermotex every night in my chair.
- Yeah.
- Definitely during the winter months.
(laughter)
But I get a little bit of pain,
we call them knots,
in the upper trapezius and the mid back.
And this is just my daily treatment for it.
Takes it away.
If it gets really bad, I actually take the straps...
And if you're wondering why I have this thing on right now,
this is the Thermotex infrared system, here.
I actually take the straps and I put 'em on, here.
And I put 'em around my shoulder,
and I actually work with this on.
I'll work at my desk with it.
- Sure.
- Because what it does, it does two things.
One, it's giving me the heat to take away the pain.
But two, it's correcting my posture.
- Right.
So these are wide elastic straps.
Should I snap 'em? No, I won't.
But that reminds you to maintain good posture.
- Yeah, right away,
I don't know who you are, it doesn't matter,
when you're working at your desk
eventually you start to slump like this.
- Right.
- And these help remind you and pull you back.
- Right.
- So it treats the pain two ways.
One if puts you in good posture,
two the heat helps calm it down.
- Right.
- Now, beyond this though, what it also does,
if let's say you're gonna start
working at some of your joints.
Let's say you're having shoulder pain.
Now you can put the Thermotex infrared system
on both sides of the joint.
- Right.
- So if it's on both sides of the joint,
what's it gonna do?
You're getting heat coming in from both sides.
So now instead of 2.36, you're gonna have 4.72.
- Gettin' close to five inches.
- [Bob] Now you're gonna have that much.
Now look at that, that goes right through the joint.
- [Brad] Right. So you've got nice...
- [Bob] That goes right through the joint.
- And, again, this is not aggressive heat.
This is not gonna get so warm that it hurts, by any means.
It's a very gentle warmth.
- [Bob] Very steady heat.
- Right. And you put it on,
and you won't feel it in the first couple minutes
like a typical standard hot pack.
It takes a little bit for it to get through.
- Yeah it takes about ten minutes for it to warm up.
- Right.
- Some people, they tell the story, the Thermotex company,
they have one since 1998, Brad,
that they've had in their...
I'm sorry, Wendy has one in her office
that she's had on since 1998.
- I'm not sure,
but I think they have it in a chain like this.
So when you sit down.
- Yeah, they also have one in their lobby
since the year 2000. Yeah, October 2000.
And they just leave it on all the time.
And it's been on, so that's a lot of years.
- This is how I use mine, 'cause my lower back,
my lumbar area's where I like to use it.
And I have it in my recliner,
so at night when I sit down to...
- See, I have mine in the mid back.
So I have two pillows and I put it up
and I just lean up against it.
- Sure. Yup.
- Approved by the FDA.
It's made in Canada so it's also approved by Health Canada.
- Sure.
- Again, it's a real steady heat.
It's very inexpensive to run.
- Right.
- Four cents, if you...
What they recommend, by the way,
is that you use it twice a day if you're trying to heal.
Or try to get a lot of blood flow to an area,
which helps an area heal. Right?
- Right.
- I mean, especially if you have
muscle injuries or something like that.
- Therapeutic treatment, mm-hmm.
- Therapeutic.
So they recommend twice a day for 45 minutes.
Ten minutes for it to warm up,
then you get about 30-some minutes of treatment.
And the thing is, with that, that sounds like a lot,
but if you can do it while you're doing something else,
it's not really a treatment thing.
- Right.
- I mean if you're doing it while you're watching TV,
or you're doing it while you're working.
- Right, right.
- It's really easy to get it in there.
- Yeah, I like to do that.
I sit on my recliner.
I got a laptop that I put on a little hootenanny.
And it's very nice.
- Hootenanny, that's an old term there.
- Well, you know.
- What are you, 100 years old?
(laughter)
- It did come from my mother.
She's not 100, must have been my grandmother.
- By the way, if you use the link down below,
we got a discount for you.
Pretty sizable discount that they'll give you on this.
And they do have, this is the platinum model.
This is the most popular model.
Brad is going to show you different ways to use it.
Why you can pretty much use it all the way from the neck
down to the shoulder, to the...
He's gonna show right now the hands.
- Right.
Yeah, they have models for the hands, for the feet.
But if you just want to buy one
that'll treat the whole body,
the platinum's the way to go.
'Cause you can make 'em up,
I got both hands in there.
- Well, pull one out, Brad.
Pull one hand out.
Now look at this.
If he's got it on both sides of the hand,
see how that's gonna go all the way through?
'Cause he's got the panels on both sides of the hand.
- So if you've got arthritic problems or something...
- Yeah it's gonna go all the way through
and get the fingers and get everything all together.
- Look at that.
- [Bob] You can get the elbow.
- Slides right up to the elbow.
And they got some really nice,
I'm not just saying it,
but really nice elastic with good Velcro.
You can hear it snap.
- [Bob] Well, good cord too.
- Yup.
- [Bob] What is that, a six foot cord? Did we decide?
- Well, plus the whip.
I call this the whip, where you can easily attach.
- [Bob] It's like a commercial cord.
- It is, yeah.
There's nothing cheap about that.
You can get the shoulder.
And then around the hip, you're gonna do it here.
And this works nice,
particularly in a chair with an armrest,
so you can kind of trap it in there.
And just relax with it there.
There we go.
Around the knee.
I always like to, if I'm doing this with a patient,
I'll have them put their knee up so they feel comfortable.
And then wrap it around here, like that.
- Yeah. Interestingly enough,
I have been using it in the clinic, now.
All the time.
What's nice about it, you can go right through clothing.
- Right.
- It doesn't even have to be
all but conformed to the surface there.
The heat, radiant heat, goes through...
Not the radiant heat, the infrared heat.
- Infrared, yes.
- Goes through even if you're not touching the...
'Cause these panels are a little bit stiff,
so they don't conform to you as much as...
But they don't need to.
- Right. They don't need to.
That's the advantage, one of the advantages,
of the infrared.
So here I got hip, knee, ankles, shoulder,
elbow, hands, upper back, lower back, neck.
You can do it all with this.
Now the ones that are custom for the joint
do work a little bit better.
- Yeah, that one for the foot, my daughter uses.
She just slips her, it's like a big shoe or a big slipper.
What do they call it?
- Right. You could get both feet in there.
- You can slip your feet in there.
And you'll see them when you go to their website.
So again, we're big fans.
We're not gonna be ashamed of saying that.
I mean, we use it ourselves.
And we use it on our patients.
And we think it works well.
- You better believe it.
- All right. Thanks for watching.
- Take care.
And nice idea with the ruler.
- Yeah, now you can see it visually.
- Visual, you know?
2.36 inch, some people,
in the metric system, 60 millimeters.
- Yeah we're a visual society.
- Yeah, we need the... Yeah, whatever.
- All right, thanks for watching.