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- Hi folks. I'm Bob Schrupp, physical therapist.
- I'm Brad Heineck, physical therapist.
- Together, we are the most famous physical therapists
on the Internet.
- You know, pain, of course, Bob (indistinct)
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- Bob, we've gotta get this outta the way
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Let's get this outta the way and get on
with our wrist grip and hand strengthening
including the fingers, Bob.
- So we're gonna a no cost way and a cost way.
- Bob, you're jumping the gun.
I wanna talk about the hand and the grip because
if you have an injury,
- Right? - or maybe you're recovering
from an illness where you got real weak
or real common, if you have arthritic hands,
whether it's rheumatoid arthritis or osteoarthritis,
you need to get those joints moving
and strengthening is oftentimes a part of it.
It works together.
- I really can't think of anybody
that should have strong hands.
- That should or shouldn't?
- Should not.
- Absolutely. It's a functional thing.
No matter who you are.
- Right, it's gonna happen in life.
- We're gonna show you two options
to strengthen your wrists, hands and fingers.
'Cause you want do it all together.
It's the most efficient way to do it as far as functional.
And we're gonna show you a way
that can cost very little. Things you have around the house.
And then we have, we're gonna show you if you want,
actually, buy a little kit, which actually are quite cheap.
- Yeah. Very inexpensive.
- We have these, we do have our name on 'em
so you're guaranteed you're gonna be happy it.
- High quality
- We'll show you exactly why.
Let start ahead. Now, with all these,
you're either gonna work for 30 seconds or until fatigue
or 10 repetitions to start with.
- Gotcha.
- That'll be enough to work both hands, you know
unless one does really need, you know, focus on.
- Right one's weak.
- Use your judgment.
So the first one is overall grip.
Okay. Now this are like, you see a device like this
and you're just, you're gonna squeeze it.
This is nice because it actually can vary just with a twist.
- And plus it has a counter.
- It does.
There's a little digital counter.
- It keeps track for you.
- Yeah. Yep. There it is right there.
But obviously, you certainly don't need
to have one of these.
There's a lot of simple ways to strengthen your grip.
- Here's a ball that's somewhat squishy.
- Yeah. They call 'em a stress ball?
- Right.
- Oftentimes, they're given away at functions
or you see 'em in a store
for 50 cents or a dollar that can work really well.
- You can take a tennis ball and you put a slit in.
- Yes.
- Actually, keep the slit forward,
so like, it's smiling at you.
- Like a little Pac-Man there.
- And you go like this
- Oh.
- A a real tennis ball is usually too firm.
It's nice and symmetric, which is okay.
So you can do that.
If you happen to have a junior tennis ball
which I didn't know, they make, they're a little bit bigger,
little softer, and you wanna get some squish in there
and you're gonna feel those muscles all the way up
in the wrist and forearm go to work.
So number two, we want a functional grip strength.
In other words,
where your hands aren't in a real symmetrical pattern
and some fingers got more than the other.
So you wanna show 'em?
- Sure. - With those balls.
This kinda a really squishy ball.
I mean, I don't know how else to describe it
but look at that thing.
- Yeah.
- These are fun.
- Now, if you got some kids, grandkids,
or maybe you just like to play with Play-Doh yourself
at any age.
Yeah. Bob, take that.
This Play-Doh is really nice.
- Oh this is really functional.
- Now that's the Crayola brand.
Let's go to the old traditional Play-Doh.
This is pink.
And yeah, look at that.
You can have fun.
It does make a little bit of a mess.
- Yep. Right now it's spitting some little spec sound.
- So you can just sit there in the kitchen
or in the, you know, watching TV and just work that
and you'll feel if your hands get fatigued.
- Oh, that smell reminds me of my childhood.
- Yeah, it does.
And you could do a little twisting from one hand
to the other.
- Oh yeah.
- Like that. Oh yeah.
It can be fun.
You can do this.
Okay. Oh yeah.
And make a little roly poly like you're gonna make bread
and then make a circle in there
and then put two fingers, the circle and stretch it apart.
There's all kinds of fun.
- All right.
- You know how it is, Bob?
- Yeah. - Okay.
But now if you would like to use this,
you still have this, which works good,
but like this supplies a squishy egg shape.
Now that's nice because you can squeeze it this way.
- Turn it-- - And that comes with the kit?
- Yep. Comes with the kit, turn it this way, and squish it.
There's also this little round thing
which is interesting.
- Like a donut?
- Yep. But the pressure it takes to squish it this way,
is about 50%,
as this way.
- Oh really? - Yep.
So it's made that way on purpose
so you can squeeze it this way.
Different fingers, switch it this way.
Yeah. They really put some nice thought into this product.
That's why we're happy with it.
You can wash all these.
It works very well.
- You can keep it at your desk.
You can have it in the car.
You can while you driving.
- Yeah. Well be careful with it.
- Be careful, yeah.
- I do wanna mention and this is really forgotten a lot
is extension.
- Right?
- To make your fingers open up and get those muscles
on the back of your fingers and wrists to work.
- So you can take a rubber band or a couple of rubber bands
and just put your fingers all inside of them
and open up like this.
- Yep.
- This really works...
the forgotten muscles.
- Yes it does.
And that's a real important part.
- Yeah. They fatigue fast.
- Yep.
Now this one works, you know,
a bought one like this and it works pretty good
'cause you can you put your fingers in there.
- Again, that's with the kit.
- Yeah. Because when you use rubber band
sometimes it slips down and, and goes onto your hand.
So that's a little advantage with this
but you can see, oh, look at that.
I feel like I'm Spiderman.
- ♪ Spider man. ♪
- So anyways, and I'm amazed.
You can just see how these muscles are really going to town.
All right. - Right.
- Oh yep.
You can work different, isolate the fingers a little bit,
if you'd like.
Bob's going all the way he's got--
- Oh my God.
- Three rubber bands and doubled up on some.
- I'm fatigued. - You got tired?
- Yeah. - (chuckles)
Okay. Let's go to the individual fingers.
You can do this...
- With a putty.
- Yeah. Play-Doh and work it like this.
- The pincer grip is the most functional,
but it's nice to work the other fingers as well.
You can do that with that ball as well.
The nice thing about the one that you get in the kit
is particularly depending
on what you wanna do with your fingers,
but you can do one finger like this.
So if you're a trombone player,
you play a stringed instrument,
this kind of activity is probably even gonna be
a little more--
'cause we get a number of comments,
people saying they play an instrument.
- Sure. - I used to play the cello.
Tanner, do you ever play at trumpet?
Tanner plays a lot of instruments,
but you can see where this-- - [Tanner] Oh yeah.
would really be.
- Right. - Yeah.
And he concurs and Bob concurs.
(Bob mimics trumpet sounds)
Yep. So individual finger grip is really nice
for specific people.
And last but not least is the strength of the wrist.
- Right. Because there are muscles that actually
go up into the hand.
- Yep. And it all works together.
- Right.
- The kit really does not have anything for that.
- No it doesn't.
- But if you've got a hammer at home,
if you've got a stick, we'll show you some simple things
- Or a dumbbell.
- So you can actually just put your forearm on your thigh.
- Yep.
- Or the side arm of a chair.
- Yep.
- And you can work your wrist going up like that
into extension.
- And I'm just using the hammer
if you don't have a dumbbell that can work out.
You know depending on the person, you know
if you have someone in the house that's a mechanic,
there's a lot of difference.
I've got about five different hammer weights.
- Oh, it doesn't take much.
- No, no.
- Yeah. Now you can turn and actually go this way too.
- Now the thing about a hammer, which really works well
for this is you'd go like this,
- Yes? - and you go like this.
Now, if you wanna make it easier, you simply do this.
This is much easier as you get stronger
you simply slide it out.
- Right.
- And then the same with supination and pronation.
- Hey Tanner, can you flip us to the other camera?
This is new.
So yeah.
Is Bob's head in the away?
For pronation and supination,
support the forearm here.
You can do this on a table or like this and do that.
Now, if it's too heavy, you start here
and as you get stronger, you simply move it up
so the leverage.
And then neat thing about the is
if you have like a piece of Dowel or like the Booyah Stik,
you can simply go like this.
And again, as you get stronger, you move it up.
Now this is, this gets, this is pretty advanced.
- That's a lot of work.
- Yeah.
You know, if you're really strong
then you get to sledge hammer out.
- Yeah. That's right.
Start off slow though
because you're gonna get sore with this.
- Exactly. You don't wanna strain your muscles
and get up with a sore wrist.
- It'll put you back a couple weeks.
- Exactly. So I'm hoping this was a good answer
for any strengthening, whether you wanna use a (indistinct)
which you don't need to, but they do have their benefits
but all these fun little toys
and you'll feel like a kid again.
- And remember to sign up for the free mattress.
- Oh yes!
And you get to take a nap after your wrists are tired.
- Right. Very good.
- Thanks for watching, folks.
- Take care and be careful.