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- Hi folks, I'm Bob Schrupp, physical therapist.
- Brad Heineck, physical therapist.
- Together, we are the most famous physical therapists
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- In our opinion, of course, Bob.
- Today, we have seven tips to reduce hand arthritis pain.
These are physical therapy approved.
Because we are physical therapists.
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Let's go, numbers one through seven.
- Okay. - Let's start off
with the first one.
This one might be surprising to you, but food is medicine.
- Oh, yeah. - And a lot of foods
are anti-inflammatory in nature.
This one is based on studies,
I saw these on nutritionfacts.org, I love this site.
Significant reduction in pain and inflammation,
if you eat a serving of strawberries, or blueberries.
So, easy enough to do.
I imagine you gotta watch the sugars from those
a little bit. - Sure.
One serving per day? - One serving per day.
- Okay.
- And I mean again, people reported
a significant reduction in pain, and inflammation.
And that wasn't just hands, that was knees and everything.
- Sure, well I think that's worth trying.
You gotta have fruit anyways,
you might as well get something that--
- Now apple cider vinegar works for you, though.
- It's done wonders on my hands.
I can't guarantee that is
where it's from. - Right.
'Cause, yeah, I don't think
we sees it didn't. - After a couple weeks
of taking it, once a day,
my hands started feeling better in the morning.
- So that's just a one person case study, right here.
- Right, yeah, I don't, it's anecdotal.
- Yeah, okay, number two.
You wanna use your large joints as much as possible,
instead of the fingers.
So let's say you're holding your purse, Brad.
(Brad laughs) When you hold you purse,
- Well... - you don't wanna
grab it with your hand,
you wanna hook it around your elbow.
- Or the shoulder, huh? - Or the shoulder, right.
- There ya go. - So that you're
taking stress off the smaller joints.
- So I gotta get a longer strap?
- That's right. (laughs) - Okay.
- If you're gonna close a door,
don't use your hands to close it, use your hip to close it.
- Oh, sure. - Give it
a little hip chuck, you know. - Hip chuck.
- Yep, so number three, use wide-handled utensils.
And we got some right here.
- Oh, sure. - These things,
make a big difference, some people.
If you have arthritis in your hands,
it's really hard to grasp onto those smaller handles.
- Especially if you're going through a flare-up.
- Right.
- Because you don't wanna stop using your hands,
but especially on a flare-up,
these hints can be really helpful.
- Right, and you don't want to flare it up,
and the thing is, you can avoid some of the flare-ups
if you don't stress the joints as much.
- These have been around for years, you know.
- Right. - Occupational therapists
have been using these for decades,
so yeah, these are proven.
- Yup, you can buy a set on Amazon, you know.
I think I even had a sharp knife, too.
They had a sharper one, on one of the kits.
- Gotta be careful. - Gotta be careful, yup.
Number four, our new favorite product (laughs)
- (laughs) Oh, yeah. - of the year.
Oh, it's almost too hot again.
- Oh, I can't. - You like it then on warm.
- Oh man, it's wonderful.
It's a hand warmer,
that's rechargeable with a little computer.
What do you call it, the USB hook-up.
- Yeah, that's the cool thing about it, it recharges.
The charge time, it took about two, or three hours.
But then it lasts four,
to eight hours. - Right.
- And this thing, it heats up
on both sides. - Right.
- It's got three levels, low, medium, and high.
I'll tell ya, if you have arthritis, or you have cold hands,
which is what I have. - Right.
- This is gonna be my new pal.
- I just got this cold hand syndrome thing,
in the last couple years.
It really never bothered me, but.
My brother said the same thing,
my dad used to complain about it.
I thought he was being a wimp.
It's like, I got the same thing.
I can't let go, I'm having a good time.
- I know, well you can actually warm up different
- Oh, yeah. - parts of your body.
- This is perfect,
'cause you get those things that you break, and you shake.
And there's that chemical, right?
- Right, right, then it's
lasts so long, right. - You throw 'em away.
But these, you could use,
if your grandma, or grandpa are going to the hockey game.
(laughs) These would be great. - Yeah, my wife and I
just went for a walk this weekend,
and I just slipped it in my glove, and it was like, "Wow."
You know, it's amazing when your hands are warm,
and your head is warm, your whole body stays a bit warmer.
- Feet, too. - Yup.
Number five, you can try
just simple traction on the joints, sometimes.
Sometimes just pulling on 'em, gives you some relief.
It's not permanent relief,
but it gives you some temporary relief.
- Right, right. - And it helps you
get through the day.
You know, you can pull on it, before you do a task.
Quite often so. - It's gentle traction.
You're not gonna, - Right.
Don't pop 'em off.
- Right, to have someone else pullin' on it. (laughs)
- Fingers flyin' all over, so--
- Bob, why Bob, why? - (laughs) Number six.
When you have hands that are arthritic,
there are certain tasks you might wanna avoid, all together.
I'm gonna give you an example, grocery shopping.
You know, there's so many grocery services now
that you can pay to, and it's not that much a lot of times.
To have them deliver your groceries.
Think about how many times you're handling items
when you go to the grocery store.
Let's say you have 20 items.
You're going from the shelf to the cart.
The cart to the check-out counter.
The bag to the car, 'cause they usually load it up for ya.
- Bag it up, yeah. - Bag to the car.
Bag to the kitchen, kitchen to the shelf.
Five times.
So five times twenty,
it's a hundred times you're using the hands.
- And, this time of year, if it's cold out, it gets worse.
- Right, right. - Because you're outside.
- 'Cause you're under the stress of the cold,
and stuff like that, too.
All right, number seven.
This is just, kind of a minor thing, but really,
if you use your phone a lot, or your iPad, or your Kindle.
Usually you're grasping it, you know.
- Sure, right. - Like this.
So what you'd rather do, is put it on your palm, like this.
And that way, the fingers are not grasping the entire time.
- Sure. - And you can
learn to talk like that.
Or put it on speakerphone.
- Right, yup.
That speakerphone works pretty good.
- Yeah. - I haven't used it much,
I went into the kitchen the other day, I hit it.
I'm walking around the kitchen, double tasking,
or whatever you call it.
- Right. - I coulda cooked a meal,
and talked at the same time.
- Yeah, just don't go to the bathroom with it.
Just don't-- - (laughs) Why Bob?
That's two, in one video.
Why? - No, I was in the,
I was in the bath, (Brad laughs)
restroom the other day.
And a guy's talking, while he's going to the bathroom.
I mean, while he's urinating.
- Do you have to talk about this, Bob?
- I got, seriously, I mean,
there should be a law, I think, even.
- Let's go to the next number.
- That's it, that's number seven.
- That's the end of it, good.
- Okay, remember, Brad and I can fix just about anything,
- Except for,
- people that urinate, with talking on their phone.
(Brad chuckles) I mean, we can't fix that.
- It's like a Leslie Nielsen movie.
- Yeah, that's right.
All right, yeah that's right, thanks.
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