- Greetings, greetings.
Bob and bad. Brad fans, Bob and bad.
It's bad here.
Anyways, foot pain, Bob,
we're gonna talk about foot pain,
the five common foot pains,
that we've treated over the years.
And we're gonna go into the symptoms,
so that you can figure out what your foot pain is.
And we're gonna direct you on how to treat it as well.
So, stand by 9.2 seconds.
♪ Bob and Brad ♪
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- Okay, Bob, just a little brief introduction
before we get into these.
With foot pain, you know, it's one of those things,
that's a compounding thing.
If you have foot pain, you don't walk so well.
If you don't walk so much,
that can be a big part of your fitness,
if you don't get your exercise,
you can get weight gain,
if you have weight gain, it can affect your mood
as well as the fitness, which can cause depression.
It's just bad.
- It's a landslide.
- It is. So, if you got foot pain,
we're here to show you some of the most popular,
popular, most...
- Common.
- Common.Thank you.
I don't wanna make it popular.
Now, these are not in order,
but we're gonna give some stats.
Number one, plantar fasciitis.
So, that's pain in the bottom of the foot.
Yep, Bob's got a bare naked foot to look at.
- Right here. Where the heel is, and meets arch is.
- Right. Now, as far as prevalence of this,
about 1% of the people in the United States gets this,
that's 3.3 million people per year.
The majority, are ages 40 to 60.
It's more common in males as well.
- Wow. I didn't know that.
- Yeah, exactly.
Typical symptoms like, Bob pointed out the location.
Oftentimes worse when you get out of bed,
and you initially put weight on that foot.
Ow, and then it improves over the, you know,
as you walk with over the next 15 minutes or so.
One thing that we're gonna talk about, one treatment,
we're not gonna do a lot of treatment on all these,
'cause it would make the video too long.
But you can go to Bob and Brad YouTube,
and search any of these,
and we do have wonderful videos.
- We have a program.
- On plantar fasciitis.
Specifically, a little library of videos,
specific to plantar fasciitis,
and they all have a PDF printout,
and they're all perfectly free aboslutely nothing.
- No email, nothing.
- Now I'm gonna show you one treatment you can do,
if you have a massage gun.
And the reason I'm doing this is
'cause we're doing a giveaway.
So, you need a massage gun with a round ball.
Okay. And I just turned this one on,
and this is the way I like to treat it,
I don't like to go into that painful area straight on,
you're just gonna make it worse.
You're gonna beat up that sore, inflamed area.
We're gonna go sideways, and we're gonna work
that planter fasciitis,
start farther away from the sore spot,
and then work your way towards it.
When it gets real tender, you're gonna stop,
you don't wanna beat it up,
but you'll find out that you can increase the circulation,
relax of muscles of fascia.
- [Bob] Loosen up the tissues.
- [Brad] Yep. Increase the healing
with the use of massage gun.
And you can massage with your fingers and hands as well.
- This is the M19, we're giving it away.
It's actually one we sell at Walmart.
- Yeah. It is a nice gun. It works well for that.
You can massage with your fingers,
and work circles and back and forth and splay,
we do have videos on that.
Your thumbs will get sore after about a minute or two.
- [Bob] So you go like this, when your thumbs too get sore.
- Exactly. Let's go to number two, Bob.
Okay. Bunions is specifically pain
on the first MPT, metatarsal phalangeal joint,
which happens to be the big toe, right here.
And almost always is caused by footwear problems.
Inappropriate footwear.
- Years of problems.
- Right, and the thing is,
is like with almost all of our footwear,
toes come to a point, and it's a style thing.
- They're too narrow.
- Yep. Too narrow of a toe box.
And then the point of your foot goes in there,
and it squishes, literally squishes your toes together.
Especially if you have high heels or pumps,
or whatever they are.
- Any heel can push you down.
- Yep. But high heels are like a ski slope going down,
pushing those toes in.
And so you can imagine,
females are 10 times more likely to have bunions than males.
- Exactly. Very common.
- Yep. Some other stats, 23% of people between 18 and 65,
and it's worse with people over 65, 36% have this.
- That's a lot.
- Yeah, it is.
So, there's a one treatment thing,
and this is something that Bob, well,
you didn't come up with this,
but your wife actually has used these successfully.
- These just don't look pretty,
they actually serve their function.
So, these are toe spreaders.
These are called, what, Yoga Toes.
And she walks around with these in the morning,
at home, and just it's been working great
in trying to correct her bunions.
She's got terrible bunions.
- [Brad] Right, so her feet are kind of squished together.
These, once you get 'em in there,
spread and stretch 'em apart,
allowing those toes to breathe again, if you will.
Not literally, but you know...
- You've got a pair that you can actually walk in.
- Right. Walk, and run with.
Yep. So, they're not as aggressive,
kinda of a lower profile.
So, and that's another reason.
And then along with that, you need like,
Bob has a shoe with a large toe box.
Want to show that, Bob?
And a zero drop.
- So, you can see the difference.
Plus it has less as it has got a flat heel.
- Yep. Exactly. I did wanna mention,
typically this is a visual deformity,
it's a little larger on that joint.
It can be red, especially when it's inflamed.
- And painful.
- All right, very good.
We're gonna go into number three.
Okay. Number three we're going to neuropathy,
peripheral neuropathy.
Usually it's below the knee,
symptoms are numbness, tingling, pain and...
- Redness.
- Yep. And often associated with diabetes.
Doesn't have to be though.
Typically the majority of people that have it,
are seniors, are people, you know, 60, 65 and older,
again, associated with diabetes.
One thing that you'll want to do to treat this is,
activity, increase the circulation,
there's a number of ways do that,
make sure that you do not wear tight shoes obviously.
We talked about that with the previous diagnosis,
get your exercise.
You could do massage with it to keep the circulation going.
You can massage by hand and work that,
it's nice if someone else would do that,
oftentimes neither one of those works so well.
And you can get a foot massager at home.
- Our office manager has one of these,
and she has neuropathy,
and she says it helps her.
- So, yeah.
And now in this foot massager,
not only does it massage of the foot physically.
- [Bob] It kneads it, compresses it.
- [Brad] It compresses it,
which helps get the circulation going from the foot.
'Cause you can get that swelling,
that edema effect, along with this as well.
So, that is very helpful for that.
- It's got a bunch of different settings
so you can adjust to your liking.
- Right. We also have a video on this,
if you look up Bob and Brad on YouTube,
we talk about some of the medical treatment, the medicines,
and whatnot from the pharmaceutical,
from Chris the pharmacist
- We cover it all.
- Yeah, it is.
So, we're gonna go on the number four.
All right, the next one, Bob, is gout.
Actually a form of arthritis,
and it almost always presents itself
with pain in the in the big toe
- Very painful.
- Yes. Now this is fair,
quite a few people are diagnosed with this,
8% of United States citizens, that's over 8 million,
typically more males have it,
and it's more common with seniors by quite a bit.
We've worked with, you know, a lot of patients with that.
Things you can do the dealing with this,
is proper footwear make sure the footwear's not too tight,
once again, you may have some cushion in there.
Diet is very...
- Very huge.
- Very huge with this.
We're not gonna get into that with here.
We do have a video that talks about it though.
- We did a video, and asked our subscribers,
and they told what bothered them.
- Oh yeah, to get it from the individual,
because it is individual.
It's not the same thing for everyone.
For sure you wanna get rid of the sugars
and the processed foods.
And again, with gout, you want to keep that joint moving,
if you can, when it's flared up, you still wanna move it.
Motion is lotion.
Don't overdo it.
- Where you can tolerate.
- Yeah, exactly.
So, you may just work flexion and extension.
- And there's medicine, right?
- Yeah. Oh yeah. Yep. There's way to treat
that medically with pharmaceuticals as well.
Very point, tender.
So, if you have gout, you've known it.
And so you need to get that diagnosed.
Very good.
We're gonna go last one, number five,
and probably the least of the five.
And number five,
we're gonna talk about just arterial sclerosis.
- A fancy name for poor circulation.
- The arteries.
And the reason I put this one on there,
the numbers are not, they're not so big,
however, my father had this,
and he would go for a walk, which is real typical,
once you get some activity going,
your feet start to hurt,
and it's easy to confuse it with,
he thought he had flat feet,
and he said his feet breakdown,
and I kind of tried to tell him it's probably circulation,
and he was diagnosed with it.
Never really got it through his head.
For him, his feet broke down,
and they were painful with walking.
So, he just did not walk as much,
which can be a problem,
at least with exercise.
But typically the arterials plug up,
up in this part...
- In the calf.
- Yeah. There's a part where the arteries bifurcate,
or split, that's where it oftentimes happens.
So, usually the calf gets sore as well as that's the foot.
So, they kind of work together.
That is something you do need to see your doctor about.
There can be a surgery for that.
My dad was not a candidate for that.
So, that was an issue.
It's an individual thing.
There's medications that go along with that.
Obviously, diet's very important.
So, eat proper foods,
all the main processed and high sugar type foods.
So, get that checked out as well.
It's one that can kind of slip by
and people kind of don't get that.
- Forget.
- Yeah. Or they think it's something else, but
it is definitely something to keep in mind.
So, there you go.
Five different foot problems, some of the symptoms,
some of the cures, and treatments,
and look up Bob and Brad and we'll...
- And keep on walking.
- Exactly. Right, Bob, it's very important.
You know, my dad was a postman, and he walked,
he won the million mile walk.
He didn't win it, but he achieved million.
For 33 years, he was walking.
- A million miles. Wow.
- Yeah. It's a lot of walking.
You should seen his shoes, man.
Heels would be worn off.
Yeah. He wore 'em right down to nothing because,
you know, you gotta get your money's worth.
Take care.