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
Brad's got a little anger towards technology. We're trying to get that out of his system here. The lack of technology Bob.
All right today Brad we got the perfect gift for a loved one in pain and we thought with Christmas coming up here
Maybe it's no longer
your Christmas when you're watching this video
But it's the perfect gift for a loved one any time of the year, especially for Christmas, right
because there's nothing better if you can give the gift of pain relief to somebody because
You know that's something that's sitting with them all day long, and if you take it away from them, ah
it's heaven.
As therapists naturally we are not promoting
Pharmaceuticals, I mean that's just fine. You can do that, but we always come with other options
We'd like to go with the natural things that don't have any side effects. So we are doing this video in cooperation with thermal
with Thermatex. Brad and I get approached by a lot of companies
As far as products and we reject most of them, and some of them
We'll take a look at and then we reject them
But we really like this one we use the product ourselves a lot, and I have been using it with patients a lot
so it's the
Thermatex. It's a far infrared energy. far not far away, but far.
And the biggest thing that distinguishes it from other types of heat is the penetration, how far it
Penetrates into the body and takes off tissues. So normal heat, a normal heating pad
Goes just two to three millimeters, which is just under the skin. Yep. Just under the skin
Far infrared energy can go up to 60 millimeters
six centimeters or
Do you remember the number? 2.36 inches.
that's a lot right and for example we have one here that works on the wrist if
You got it, and it goes all the way around the it's gonna do that 2.36 inches
all the way through the wrists.
You're gonna warm up that joint all the way through and the nice thing I really like about this,
It doesn't overheat. Unlike conventional
hot packs which by the way just last week
I had a patient use a hot pad on his neck an electric one
He literally has a scar from the burn there. It's not big, but it's there
It should never get that hot, but that's the potential you have with the conventional. They have usually a low medium high setting.
This just has a
One switch. You switch it on, you go to put it in place, and as it goes to work.
It's a medical device approved by the FDA and
Also Health Canada. This company's out of Canada, Calgary and been around for twenty years
So we feel like they kind of know what they're doing
It's not brand new on the market
And it's built very well. We've got it so that and we insisted upon
This is that we're gonna be involved with them
we're gonna have a link down below
and if you use the link and the code word or whatever we got
You will get I think it's at least ten percent off sure so
Which is a significant amount. Oh absolutely. I thought you were disputing that. By the way if you are new to our channel,
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Yeah, it's not really true, my wife doesn't like that
So, okay, let's talk about the different products
We got here Brad. The most versatile one is the platinum one and it's got three panels
And what you're going to find out is that there's the hard panel on this side
And it's softer on this side. The hard panel is the part that goes to the body
It's not that's hard. It's flexible it bends
Yeah, but it's not like a piece of steel in there right, but they don't want it flexing
that's the idea is that. Well like I put it right on my recliner. No I do too
Wraps around the back. It's comfortable, and this one comes with a longer strap and a shorter strap
What's nice about the longer strap is you can actually take it around and
You can get somewhat mobile with it. Pops my velcro. I put it on the wrong. I didn't have the right
Yeah, there we go
So got a good solid eight foot cord. Yep
This is medical duty cord, this is commercial duty, this is not going to fall apart in a long time, so
Brad likes to use it for his low back because he's got the Spondylolisthesis.
Are you using this nightly Brad? Not every night, but you know if I have acute pain
Which I did last week because I did something I probably shouldn't did,
Then I'll use ice
but if I just have a
Low-grade pain or one of those achey things like it's not tender to the touch
But it's aching then I'll use the heat. Sometimes
it's nice to alternate ice with this. I did try that last week.
But yeah as far as like arthritic or those kinds of pain or bursitis,
They're familiar with their pain and often times people know if they're gonna respond well to the heat or the cold better
Right, this is a great alternative for chronic issues and the way they recommend a lot of times, the treatment
time is first like 30 to 45 minutes
It takes about 10 minutes to warm up, a little less than that.
I'll sit on mine and turn it on because I forget to pre warm.
It doesn't take very long, its pretty quick, and I got to tell you for the Christmas time people are gonna
Love you more because if you're in the northern climate like we are in, Minnesota, Wisconsin
You come in from the car, and you got your hot pack there. It makes it twice as fun.
Your infrared pad
twice as fun to sit there and relax
but they recommend 30 to 45 minutes and even twice a day for a problem and
Do that for you know a good 10 days or so and you're gonna see some
good relief from your pain, at least temporary relief
And then you know sometimes if you get the temporary relief then you can add movement along with that and you can get some permanent
Relief. I use it all the time Brad and I used it last night.
when I'm at the computer, I don't always listen to ourselves, like we're supposed to move it every day.
No you get focused on the computer, so I start getting the knots, up in this area here
So what I do is I lay it in my chair, and I just lay up against it
So it's way up here
And I got a pillow behind it to be honest with ya. That reminds me that
forces you to keep good posture because you can feel that warmth that feels good because you're back in good posture.
My wife and I always finish the evening by watching a little bit of TV and by the time I go to bed
the pain is gone. Oh I thought you meant your wife.
The point about this too Brad: they don't need to conform to the skin
You want to pull it off real quick so we can show that? It feels kinda good Bob.
I really don't want to but right if you have a typical
conventional hot pack you have to have contact with your skin
so you get the the trans. So if this doesn't conform all the way around, it doesn't matter
Because the far infrared energy is coming through the skin either way. You could be an inch away
and you still have 1.36 inches of energy that gets into your body
So it's a big advantage. What I like about it is again
the platinum is you can use it almost on any body part.
So you can use it on the back, you can make it into kind of like a muff.
You're making it like this and you can put your hands in there like the football players
They should have one of these for football players. You'd have to have a really long cord though
for the quarterback. But I'm where I'm gonna be using it is my elbow. I've been having a little bit of golfer's elbow
Yeah, and it's just not going away.
I'm feeling it when I lift weights. It always feels better after I warm it up
So I'm gonna go ahead and use it on this and I'll report back to you on how how it worked
A couple other things it works out really well for: I have a patient that's coming in. They have some other different ones
They have one for the hand and wrist
I actually have a patient that's coming in and has TFCC
triangular fibrocartilage complex and
This is gonna work really well with them. In other words his wrist hurts. Yeah his wrist hurts
I'm gonna send one of these home with him and actually have him use it at home
Because it's gonna be such a good treatment for him to do right before he does his exercises
The other thing, believe it or not we had a lady that was a little bit overweight, and she was having groin pain
I was like how are we gonna treat this because
even to get to the area was difficult. We used one of these
And actually we used a wrist one believe it or not and put it in this area
And that's all we did and it took her pain away
That's where you really need that depth, a penetration to get to the involved tissues.
A heating pad would never have worked right. I'm not trying to claim that this is gonna take your pain away
I think it's a good temporary relief of pain. It's a good way to manage pain
So you can do exercises that can help take it away eventually
But also again the idea of you increase the temperature a little bit, increase circulation
Circulation is when healing is accelerated.
I'm not trying to make claims here that we can't be substantiated
But so we got a wrist one. There's a there's a larger back one right. This is the knee one.
Yeah, and then there's actually one they call the big slipper and
This one's good for a lot of things, about a lot of foot problems, and you can actually get both feet in there
It's got a nice little pad in there
Yeah, it's got an extra pad in there
and I think sometimes if that's even too much for you if you have
sensitive feet you can put that extra pad in there or even put another towel in there.
Bob can I get to the point where I was so frustrated?
Yeah
The nice thing about this that I'm in interested in and if you're interested in any kind of energy efficiency is
this big one the biggest one they have is 36 watts. That's the Platinum one. They have one that's bigger.
Yeah, 36 watts because sometimes, Bob mentioned too, we forget to turn it off when we go to bed
You don't want to fall asleep with this on ever ever ever, but yeah a couple times
I get it it feels so good, you get up, and you kind of forget that you had it on because it's not burning you up
It's very comfortable and you get adapted to it, and
I just go to bed and the next morning the little green light is on
But it's only 36 watts
It's not going to raise your electric bill very much as compared to the other standard ones
I was trying to look up the wattage on them because I'm pretty sure it's at least three times as much as these depending on
what level. Plus
again the threat of being burned.
We had a patient that we didn't use a heating pad
We used a hot pack on him, and we kept asking him
Does it feel okay, and he kept saying yes, it feels okay, It feels okay.
Well turns out we ended up burning him. He got a burn on his knees and he said it's not your fault.
You guys kept asking me, and then it went away, but it was just again. It was superficial
Yeah
It's one of those things you have to be concerned about. He was talking about a hot pack that we use in hot water right.
Exactly. They're only used pretty much in therapy world
The link is down below. Take care. Good health to you.