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
Today Brad, we're gonna talk about how to manage chronic pain via natural methods
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Let's get to the topic here Brad. We have a lot of patients with chronic pain and
with the opioid crisis
it really is important that we learn how to manage chronic pain without
high-power
medications. The opioids that can lead to all kinds of problems, not only for the individual, but family members
It's just it's going rampant. Without getting into it too much, my family's been touched by this a little bit, my mother-in-law
and she's off now, but she became dependent on opioids
after a knee surgery. And for therapists
that's what we do, we teach you how to manage your pain without that and this is just one of the options
You know cold packs hot packs stretching, body positioning, etc, and this is another natural
What I like to look at it Brad is like we're giving people tools, and the more tools
we can give them, the easier it is gonna be for them to manage their pain
And here we got some tools right here
We asked for these, we went and looked on their website
and we picked out some of the things that we like to use with patients and
there's three categories here. We've got the pain relieving patches. We got some homeopathic
tablets and then we have the balms and the creams and the
topical ointments
So we're not going to talk about these today. We're gonna do another video on these
So we're just gonna talk about these three here, so
this has been our experience with it. One thing I think you're gonna find out with these
Brad is that everybody kind of reacts to these differently, for sure, because now I
didn't get as much out of the Bengay one, but you're doing better with the Bengay one, right for sure
and the other thing I want to say about all three is that they all stick very well
So you're saying the patch sticks to your skin well. You don't have to worry about it falling off. No in fact
I'm gonna put one on right now. This is the tiger balm one, actually if you don't mind helping me Brad. I'm gonna
A lot of times tape sticks to itself you can't get it apart again
Well this one you can yeah, it's like duct tape if you ever fold it over,
Put it this way, would you yeah, it will pull a little bit of hair off
What I did with this is I actually put it over my knee
I wanted to put it over a joint that bends a lot
and I put a Bengay one on my knee and the
Tiger balm on my knee, and I actually could work out with it Brad, I did squats
I knelt on it
So and as you found out Brad when you put these on do they start off very very cool
And then it takes a while for them to activate sure
The bengay took longer than the tiger balm. The one that kicked in the quickest
And I'm not sure if we're gonna say this right: Salonpas
Salonpas. Oh yeah, Loni. What's that mean?
Do you know what it means? Oh?
Oh
They use it in the Philippines, look at this, we got an endorsement for it. Well anyway
I put this, these are smaller, so let's go over the sizes Brad. The Bengay one is 4x8
No, it's 3.9. x 7.9
That TigerBalm, but this is pretty close close the same because this one's 4x8
this one's almost 4x8 and these are 2.75 x 1.75, so there are a lot smaller
but man, they got kick
I'll tell ya if you're gonna use something for your neck or for a smaller joint like a wrist
Yeah, I would recommend say it again, Lonnie
Salonpas. Because one they kick in right away and two they
They work, very very well, okay, but they did not work well, they're too small for my back
I put it on my back
and I could already hardly feel, so this one's really kicking in now, I can start to feel it already
So you feel that cold sensation, yeah
and it's almost even tingly a little bit and warm sensation
But what I liked about this one, I know I'm skipping around
But the Tiger Balm one is I had it on my knee
And I wanted to try it on my back, so I took the same one which they probably don't recommend
and I put it on my back. I still felt some left over from my knee, some residual yeah,
I felt that on my back, so if you're looking for a larger one
I'd go with either the Bengay one or the Tiger Balm
Brad likes the Bengay one more, I like the tiger balm one. If you're looking for a small one, this is the home run
Sixty patches you get in this too by the way
I got costs hold on just a minute. You know I looked on their site
Salonpas, that was $13.40 so it was more, but you get 60 for
$13.40 yeah, that's a good price.
The tiger balm is $7.30 so you're gonna get 4 treatments, so less than 2 bucks for treatment and this is
$8.50 for the Bengay
Around two bucks per treatment, you know and the thing with this is
What I like about these Brad is you put them on and then you can
maybe it's gonna allow you to move a little bit more and generally movement helps decrease chronic pain
Right, I think these things are just perfect for
the arthritic knee, where surgery is not an option for whatever reason and they don't want to go to the opioids
And they want something, I'm amazed at how well they stretch
I've got this Bengay when I've got Morton's neuroma when I wear these shoes it always kicks in
Because the bed of the shoe is just not so good, so he's got this wrapped around his foot right now
And it feels great no and 've got this one on my other foot and for me I'm responding better to this
Interesting because I did not, it's really different chemistry
I would also talk about, there are some
precautions, you want to make sure it's a clean dry area that you're putting on, obviously no sores or open sores
Avoid contact with your eyes, so even when you're touching it, don't touch your eyes afterwards or in your mouth or yeah mucous
membranes, nose, mouth, anything like that
We know this because we see a lot of pain patches on people, in our patients
You can't put a heating pad over it or hot pack over it
And don't put a bandage over it
They said don't wrap a bandage over it, if you already have a prescription pain patch don't mix these up
with that either, which most people wouldn't but earlier
I wanted to clarify that and I think the length of time that you can have them on vary
Some of them were four hours, like I said on the one I took it off
I still felt it for a couple hours after that so obviously the medication is going through there
So really a good option for if you're dealing with chronic pain
Or even acute pain if you're trying to deal with it,
certainly better than
taking medication if you can avoid it, anything else you want to say Brad? no
I just think it's a good option. It's not real costly, you have nothing to lose and everything to gain all right
We'll leave it at that. Thanks.