♪ Bob and Brad, ♪
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- Hi folks, I'm Bob Schrupp, physical therapist.
- Brad Heineck, physical therapist.
- We are the most famous physical therapists
on the internet.
- In our own opinion of course, Bob.
- Feeling anxious Brad?
- Oh, Bob, I'm anxious Bob.
- Alright, well we're going to help you today,
so today we're going to talk about
will a weighted blanket help stop anxiety,
insomnia and stress?
So we were contacted by Dozeology,
and they wanted to see
if we were willing to review their project.
- Sure. - Which is a weighted blanket.
And I didn't know anything about this,
I'd never even heard of them.
So I went and spoke,
we have different therapists that work for us,
and they work in the school system.
- Sure. - And they work with students
who have Autism, ADHD, right?
- Yep
- Which is what, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder?
And they all gave it an enthusiastic thumbs up,
they all said that they use these all the time,
they use others forms too,
they actually use a thing called a squeezer.
Apparently the pressure on the body,
which to me makes sense, doesn't it to you?
- Has a calming effect.
- A calming effect,
it's like swaddling a little baby.
We had to watch our little neighbor kid,
little neighbor baby.
- Yeah.
- And she cried the whole time,
and finally I swaddled it, swaddled it.
- Her.
Her, and she just calmed right down.
- Right. - I couldn't believe it.
Maybe she was just so tired from crying for an hour.
So, you've heard of thunder jackets
or thunder shirts for dogs?
- No, no, I don't have a dog.
- Liz, have you heard of those?
Yeah, Liz says she's heard of it.
So, like a dog, if it gets all hyperactive about thunder
you actually put these things on and it calms them down.
- Sure - There's a lot of,
and I'm going to get into some studies
that show that there is some science behind this too.
- Right, right
- But if you're new to our channel;
boy that's the latest I've done that in a while, huh?
- Right, that was a long time Bob!
- Yeah, if you could, please take a second
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stay healthy, fit, and pain free,
and we upload every day.
And this is kind of appropriate.
We're always doing a give-away
- Sure - And we're giving away
a mattress, so you can get the mattress,
you get the weighted blanket,
you're going to sleep like a baby!
- There you go!
- So just go to BobandBrad.com and go to give-aways
and you'll have the details on there.
It's also pinned at the top of the page on Facebook
- Facebook, you bet!
- So we've really never done an unboxing here Brad
so I thought I'd bring it in,
you know its kinda got a nice little convenient carrier box.
This weighs 15 pounds.
- There it is,
It's all wrapped up, Bob.
- It's all wrapped up yeah,
just take it out of the bag there Brad.
- Sure.
- Comes with the little instructions here.
- Well, Bob, before we go any further I do want to mention
that when I was younger especially,
I always slept with a lot of blankets on my bed.
I just thought it felt good.
I could sleep better, and my parents would come in
and say why do you have all those blankets?
I'd say I don't know, I just feel good
with the weight of the blankets on me.
- Yeah, we saw a lot of comments.
One of the first studies,
by the way I've got a couple links below
on studies that we've looked at.
But one of the studies they did
they actually used a weighted blanket like this
at the Dental office
while people were getting like a wisdom teeth pulled out.
- Right. - Now they found out that,
let's see,
I'm looking at these numbers here,
32%,
oh no, they just said people, they liked it,
it decreased their anxiety,
they ones that did use it.
- Good feedback.
- And a lot of people said that they actually liked
the feeling of a lead apron,
you know the one that you use--
- For the X-rays, right.
- And I thought back to that,
I was like I do like that feeling.
And so one guy said, he even had them keep it on him,
cause it calmed him down during--
- Throughout the whole procedure.
- Yeah, throughout the whole procedure.
Another study, there was 32 adults,
63% reported less anxiety,
78% percent preferred the weighted blanket
as a calming modality.
- Sure. - So it helped clam them down.
There was also a study that I saw on autistic children,
definitely had a good result with that.
- Right.
- And that's what we talked about with the therapists
in the schools. - Sure.
- I saw a doctor on Dr. Oz, believe it or not, talk about it
he said that there's some thoughts that it even helps
patients with dementia when they get all anxious.
- Sure.
- And also fibromyalgia.
- Okay.
- So, there's a lot of reasons why this can help.
It's interesting Brad, does this feel cool?
- Yeah, it does.
- It's made out of cotton, and what they've done,
you can open it up once Brad,
cause I'd like to show the inside here.
So, it's a cotton,
I don't know if you can see this well or not,
but the inside, it's actually like
diamond shaped stitching.
- Look at that little tie
- Yeah, they tied it in, it came tied in like that.
- Oh sure.
- Prevents it from bunching up inside.
- Yep.
- But it's made really well, the stitching is good,
it's cotton, so it is cooler,
so I was surprised there, heat was not an issue.
But this spreads the weight out.
- Yep, that makes sense.
- And it gets fifteen pounds,
it comes, I think two different colors.
This had 107 reviews and 4.6 stars,
which is really quite good.
It was $139.87
so these are not inexpensive,
but it think this is on the lower end
of what I've heard.
I heard 250-300 dollars, even more.
You want to make sure it's tied in there.
My wife likes it.
She likes it a lot.
I mean, she uses it on the couch all the time,
knocks her out!
- This one? - Yeah.
- Oh really? - Yeah!
- I'll be darned
- Yeah, so I don't know,
apparently she's a little anxious in her life.
- I'd be anxious with you around too.
- I'll give it a thumbs up.
I think it's a great idea.
My daughter has some trouble with some anxiety,
we wanted to send it along with her
but I said this is going to add fifteen pounds of weight
to your luggage.
(laughter)
The other thing by the way, Brad,
you can use this and actually get a work-out in.
You can lay on the bench or on the bed,
you could some bench pressing.
- Or just do curls, you know, more abdom--
It'd be a nice way to distribute weight
instead of holding on to two dumbbells
- That's right - You get it spread out
over the whole body.
- Yeah feel this thing once!
- Ooh!
It is!
It does feel kinda good, Bob!
- Alright, so we can fix just about anything
- Except for--
- A broken heart, but we're working on it.
- And we are working on it.
I don't know if this will help.
- It might - It sure feels kinda comfy.
- Calm you down. - There you go!
- Alright, thanks for watching!