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♪ The two most famous ♪
♪ Physical therapists ♪
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- (clapping) Hi folks, I'm Bob Schrupp, physical therapist
- Brad Heineck, physical therapist.
- And we are the most famous physical therapists
on the internet.
- In our opinion of course, Bob.
- Today, Brad, we're gonna cover
three new, at-home, self-treatments,
to finally get rid of that plantar fasciitis.
That can be a stubborn...
- Oh yeah.
- Problem, can't it?
- Yeah, it can seem to go on for a long time.
But we got some, we got some tips for ya.
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- Oh really?!
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- Oh!
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So!
I'm gonna show you two things that involve no cost,
and then the third thing that does involve
a little bit of a cost.
- Hmm
- Brad's gonna start off with a,
the first things you should be doing
before you even get out of bed in the morning.
- Right. - So, wanna take it away Brad?
- Okay, so often times, if you've got plantar fasciitis.
You get out of bed, and you put your feet on the floor,
and right then and there,
often times, sharp pain in the foot.
You walk around for a little bit,
it gets a little bit better,
a little bit better.
But by then, the damage has been done.
- Right. - You put weight through it,
and the tissues that were healing over night
were tight because your foot was plantar flexed.
And then you put all that weight on it,
stretch them out quickly,
and then you re-tear what's been healed.
So we're gonna do something
before you get to the weight-bearing.
So, as you're in bed,
oh yeah!
- (laughs)
You're waking up, you're gonna remember,
"Oh yeah, Brad says we gotta do this to the feet."
So, you can go to the edge of the bed,
or you can do it laying down.
I'm gonna do it here so you can see exactly what I'm doing.
And we're going to start massaging your foot!
Now, if you had someone else at home
that will do it for ya, that would work.
- [Bob] Good luck trying to find someone.
- Yeah, so I'm gonna work, put my thumbs,
I grab, grab the bottom of my foot here.
Usually, the tender spot is up here.
If that's the case, in your case.
We're not going to go right over that really tender spot,
we're gonna work around it, and there's-
Do you have any particular technique you like Bob?
- [Bob] I usually like circular and splaying.
- [Brad] Yep.
- [Bob] I mean that's-
So he's doing circular right now with his thumbs.
And then I like to do some splaying too.
- [Brad] Yep.
- [Bob] It seems like the splaying.
Wanna show what the splay is, Brad?
- [Brad] Yeah, I just wanna show,
I'm working this way on that plantar.
- [Bob] Sure. - [Brad] And then we're gonna,
thumbs together and pull apart.
Now, this is aggressive.
- [Bob] Yeah.
- [Brad] Your thumbs are going to get tired,
if you're not getting tired thumbs,
you're not going hard enough.
'Cause you gotta get through that skin on the foot.
- [Bob] Yeah, you gotta push it in hard.
- [Brad] Yep.
- [Bob] This is the one that seemed to help my spouse.
- [Brad] (Groaning)
- [Bob] It seemed like it made it better,
after, after some other things were done to them.
- [Brad] You wouldn't do it for her?
- [Bob] No.
- [Brad] No? (laughs)
- [Bob] No, no, no! Actually, I think I did show-
Actually, Brad, in all fairness,
I think I did show her how to do it.
- [Brad] On your foot, or her?
- [Bob] On her foot.
- [Brad] Oh, good!
- And then she went and followed up on it.
- So, you're gonna do those techniques.
You know, gonna spend the minute or two.
You're gonna have tired thumbs.
- Yeah.
- That's where you know it'll get done, okay?
And then, we need to do a little stretching,
and if you take a towel.
You put a towel down like this,
and your foot on top of it.
- So you should have a towel in the bed with you already-
- Yep.
- 'Cause again you don't want to get up onto your feet.
- Yep.
- This is all before you get out of bed.
- Now, I've got it folded so you can see my foot.
But you can have it not folded so neat,
just so that you end up pulling.
Now, the key thing about this
is that the toes are getting extended or pulled back
along with the foot, that's a key part of getting the-
- Yeah, cause those fascia,
that extends up into the toes.
So, we wanna stretch the toe, and the foot.
- Yep.
You're not gonna start out real aggressive with this.
- No, no, no, you don't wanna tear it!
- No, you're gonna just take your time,
gentle, gentle, gentle.
And as it feels better,
then you can get a little more aggressive.
But you should never feel any of that sharp pain,
because that's that tissue getting re-injured again.
And we do not want that.
And then, once you feel like you have it stretched,
you're gonna do that for 30 seconds to a minute.
Then you're gonna pull,
and then you're push with your foot,
and use your hands for a little resistance.
So that you actually start working those muscles,
and working that fascia, that plantar fascia.
So, it's kinda getting gradually
worked into that weight-bearing.
And you'll do that five to 10 times, and then-
- And then you put your shoes on Brad.
- Oh! Oh!
- (laughing)
- Gosh!
Do I have to put my sock on? - Well, I-
- I got this nice blue sock.
I brought it just for video today.
- Yeah, it seems like it matches your outfit.
- Yeah, it does, that was an accident.
But you know, ill take it.
- So, you wanna put your shoes on
to help take some of the stress off.
You know, the shoe's got a nice arch support in it.
- Yeah.
- So, you're not going to put as much stress on it.
- And it's, it's better if you have a lace-up shoe, right?
- Yep. - So you can tighten it up.
Or if you don't, have something with a good arch support.
- Right.
- That's gonna help that.
- Slippers are fine if they a good arch support.
- Right. - But a lot of them don't, so.
- Right.
- All right, so, then he's ready to go.
Then hopefully you won't get that sharp pain right away.
- [Brad] Right.
- [Bob] Brad, let's move this out of the way.
- [Brad] Oh yes, absolutely!
- 'Cause we'll move to the last section of our-
This is how, you know, this is us spontaneously,
working out here.
So, I'm gonna go right here.
Brad, do you mind bringing that over to me?
- Bringing what over?
Oh the foot thing, yes!
I would love to!
I'd like to put my feet in here, it looks nice and warm.
- Yeah, you're gonna be able to try it here.
I'll just take that, I cleaned it first.
- Yeah, well.
- So this is the Naipo Flexus Spa
It was touted as the world's first steam massager
for your, for your foot.
One warning, I'm gonna tell you right off the front though,
if you're interested in getting one of these,
it's a crowd-funding campaign.
So you, you know, you have to basically
put your money into this crowd-funding,
and then hope they do manufacture them.
This company has been a very reliable company though,
so far, we've had a lot of their products.
And so, I'm sure you can be pretty,
rest assured that they are going to go ahead
and have it done.
- So, this is like a prototype?
- Yep! I guess so, I don't know.
So anyway, this can be removed actually here.
And I'm going gonna go ahead and put my feet in here.
Now, I had this thing running for a while already.
And, but normally, it only needs like 30 seconds.
You start it, then you can put your feet in it,
and let it go.
Now, I'm gonna go ahead and hit the massager.
Oh my god! This thing is is aggressive,
it's fairly aggressive!
My wife really loves this thing..
- Really?
- Yeah.
- That's because you won't massage her feet
so she gotta find someone.
- You're right, right.
- (laughing)
But it really does get quite warm,
it's got three settings for warmth.
- So, I don't know if you mentioned,
but there's a little thing that you fill up with water,
and it's steam-.
- Yeah, I was going to show all that afterwards.
- Oh! I'm sorry.
- I was just going to show me using it first.
- Okay.
- But, I've had foot massages and stuff
you know, that we've tried, other devices.
- Yeah.
And you remember the heat on those,
It's always just very mellow?
- Yeah, yep.
- This one, if you're on the high setting, it is warm.
- (laughing)
I mean, actually, I had to go to a lower setting
to tolerate it.
- I'm ready to get my feet in there Bob.
My feet stay a little cold.
- Yeah, I don't know if you can see the steam or not, Mike?
- No.
- Take it, take our word for it, there's steam coming up.
And uh, yeah, it's, it's, you got it now?
It's really easy to use.
Um, and it's got time settings.
And now, the massager goes one way,
then it goes the other way. - Oh!
- And I'm gonna show you that in just a minute.
But, it's got settings for 10 minutes,
15 minutes, 20 minutes.
And it also has an indicator,
that if your water supply is low.
You know, after you put it in there, so.
What I'm gonna do now, is I'm go ahead and,
oh, can I have that towel, Brad?
- Oh, yes!
You're gonna, you're gonna dry your feet off?
- Yeah, they're a little bit wet, they're not bad.
But they're enough that I think you need to
dry them off after you get done.
- Especially if you're walking on a smooth floor,
you don't wanna slip.
- Yeah, I'm gonna turn this off.
And I'm gonna show you here, these actually come out.
And this is the part you can clean, Brad.
- Oh! Look at that!
Those are the massaging surfaces?
- Yeah, now watch.
See these things here? They go in a circle like this.
Plus, they have little rollers here.
- [Brad] Move the bottom one so they can-
- Oh yeah, they roll together!
- [Brad] Mechanically interconnected, that's really fun!
- So they go this way first, and then they go the other way.
- [Brad] Kinda like the washing machine,
where the thing goes back and forth one way
and the other way, didn't you ever watch that?
- No, I don't, were you thrown into one one time?
- [Brad] No! Well, I think my mom was thinking about it,
but she was nice.
- (laughing) Yeah, you can-
You have two of these obviously, and uh, it uh,
it, it, these are fairly aggressive these rollers, I mean-
- So you take that whole thing,
and you can submerse it in some nice soapy.
- Yeah, I don't know if you can put it in the dishwasher,
or if you'd even want to.
- No, I just think in the sink, you know?
A little bleach in there, a little soap?
Rub a dub dub.
- Right. The other interesting thing about this is
that they say it's up for, you know, size 11 feet.
But I have a size 12 and I easily fit in there.
You know, you can put your foot in different spots.
- Sure.
- So, I think it would be like a size 15 even, it would fit.
- Whoa!
- Well, you look, Brad.
There's a lot of room in here, see that?
See all that room in there?
- [Brad] Yeah, he's not kidding!
- [Bob] So I can move back and forth.
- [Brad] Oh yeah!
- I mean, if you want to hit right on the right spots.
I think it, it, you're probably going to hit.
- Yeah, yeah.
- But, and now I'm going to pull out.
So there's two of these, and then there's also-
This is all the water you need.
You just, you take this off, and you fill it up with water.
And you bring it over,
and you just put it right in place like this.
And you turn it on, and within a few minutes.
I mean, it starts massaging you right away.
- Right.
- It takes a while to heat up a little bit.
- Well, it's gotta convert that water.
- Yeah, to steam, right.
So, really quite a nice device.
Um for the go-,
I don't know if it's http://gofundme.com,
it's a crowd-funding site, I can't remember which one it is.
But they're asking for $119 dollars,
and then you'll get one.
You can also buy two for like one-
- Oh, a lesser price?
- A lesser price
- Hmm, that way you could get one for you and your-
- Well they say two-
- Other.
- Yeah, delivery would be by May.
So, they're saying in time for Mother's Day.
- Oh, yeah!
- You would have it solved.
Yeah, so I, I ended up really liking this.
This is really a cool device,
you'll have to try it sometime Brad
for National Brad Day here.
You need to drink a beer and put your feet in there.
- Well, that might be something for tonight
before I start to grill.
- There we go!
- (laughing)
- I'm gonna grill this weekend to, so.
All right, thanks everybody for watching.
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