Hi folks, I'm Bob Shrupp physical therapist. Oh, Brad Heineck, physical
therapist. Together, we are the most famous physical therapist on internet. In our
opinion, of course. Today we are going to talk about the best darn, I was gonna use a
different D, but I thought this is a family show Brad. Very good Bob. Best darn
product for knee replacement. Stretches, exercises, range of motion, flexion,
extension. Things that make the knee work well. We love this, don't we? Yeah the new step is
one of our homes, you know, it's just used for so many things, but really good
for knees. Yeah and because the person's in control. So when he pushes
this arm up, it actually flexes the knee and and when you're in pain you want to
know that you're the one applying the pain not someone else, right? Much more
relaxing. Much better results. And the seat moves up, right Brad? Watch this, so if this
is, like, oh. I need a little more bend there, we just simply do this. Slide it
forward and walla, you get much more. You can see the tape he's got on there, and
the reason he's got on there, he's not trying to become a general or something
with his stripe down his pants or that, he's actually showing how much knee
flexion there is with the black pants. Just so it's easier to see. No, this is a
wonderful unit. I'm sure you see them in a lot of times in facilities, fitness
facilities and stuff like that because you can sit ,and you can workout,
and it's great for cardio and and everything else for strengthening, so. And
they're extremely well built but there's one thing about I'm not. But
you know Brad the thing is I you've been such a good business partner, I think you know
that I'm gonna buy one for you. Yeah sure Let's see, how much are they? Well the
base price is about three thousand seven hundred ninety five dollars and then it
goes up from there, but it'll last you, your whole life. I guarantee you that.
Okay, well I think we're gonna have to come up with another alternative. Maybe
something a little better for home that Yeah. Maybe could save on the pocketbook.
Right. So, as an alternative Brad, we better pick out something that people
can maybe possibly afford, although you know, if you want to buy one of those new
steps, we'll put it in our product section down below.
I've had, I've had a few patients purchase them for home obviously they
can' afford it. Yeah. Most people have difficulty with that. One other problem
with the new step, by the way is, it's not portable. Brad and I just had to wheel it
out of here and it's very heavy, as opposed to this next product that we're
going to mention, is the knee Glide, and the knee glide by the way, you can carry
around with one finger can't you Brad? It's very portable. Less than three
pounds. You watch this Brad, I can do curls with this one finger. Fnger curls,
sure. By the way Brad, I missed out on doing this earlier if you are new to our
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likeable. So this is a very simple device that it's got a little foot plate on
there that you can easily put on and work on while you're on, you know sitting
on the, on a chair. Right.Just like this, you can do it on a bed, you can do it on
a chair, and it very easily slides so you can in a relaxed manner, get that knee
bend, you know, if you're with a therapist you know, you're gonna get this
thing out, they're gonna measure and they're gonna want to see how far they can bend it and
they're gonna say, push a little more, well ,with this you can easily use your
other leg and push to get that 90, 100 110, 120 degrees knee bend
after that knee surgery. Now, what we recommend is that you, you know, you work
it for a while, get it loosened up, and then you actually cross at the ankles
first. Yup, ther, like that. Then you pull back and then after a while, when you get
you know, you're getting improvement, then you actually have to put it off at the
toe. Yup. And push back even further. And one thing that's really nice about this
device, is you can go downhill with it which gives you a little more, sometimes
you just need a little, little different angle on it and that can give you just
what you need to get that extra range of motion that you're looking for. Yeah, and
I got to tell the story Brad we had a patient that we had seen before the Knee
Glide was available, and we worked with her for a month and she had a
contraction on her knee and the most we could get her knee up to was 70 degrees.
We just worked and worked and worked. Sure. We, we took her off of therapy, she came
back, the doctor wanted us to try to get to 90 degrees so they could do the
surgery on her, so we, in this instance, we used the knee glide, we got to 95 degrees.
I mean it was just, it was the only difference between what we have done
before. Right. So I became a big believer. I really like the fact when you're
working with somebody that you can you know really easily just with the your
foot, if your foots on there, I can just give a little bit of a stretch here and
and even measure. Right. You know, if I'm working with you, I can easily measure
while holding the foot in place. The therapists are just absolutely gonna love this
thing. Now, the other thing that you can do. Well you can put the strap on the
middle Brad, you know on the middle section. You don't know what I'm saying do you?
You know, right here. Put it on this one and then pull back, but you got something
else in mind don't you? Right, yeah I was. He's going this way. I
wanted to go just use a little leverage and a little ingenuity. if you
got a tight knee and you want to. Brad's Mr. Mechanical here, so I I should
know better than try to make suggestions to him, because he's got ideas. And now you
know, very easily can just pull forward and you know, this is the yoga
strap it's got a little loops in there you can easily just get your hand in
there and get that range of motion. You know sometimes knees are a little
stubborn you want to get that extra leverage and this does it very
nicely We like the yoga strap,I mean, you can
use it for stretching other parts of the body then too so it would come in handy
for it for you and there was actually different ways that you could use it. You
could actually, if I was up here Brad and I was up on a bed. I could take it like this, and this is
what I was talking about. You take it on, you can tell where the middle is because
that's where the tag is. Yeah. So I can go like this and you might put a towel down
on your heel to make it a little more comfortable, but you can see how I can
pull like this. Yeah so I can really you know again I'm kind of going ata different
angle here, now. Rght. really and I can put my hands in the loops and I can
really give some stress on the knee, really get it into that flexion. This could be
used early on, in the right after surgery when you're in the hospital bed yet or
at home in bed it's still pretty limited as far as what the range of. So Brad, can
this used for more than just flexions? Say no more, Bob.
So, yes, you can use it to straighten the the knee out too - it actually works out kind of
cool. You're gonna need a little bit of a platform, a stool or something. It depends on the heighth. I mean, you
can do it on the floor, and it'll work. Um, we're just going to push down like
this, depending on the heighth of the chair the size of the person if you're a
shorter person you may want to get it up on a platform and you can use a chair or
stool this works nice, and then we're just, it just slides so nice and easy.
You're gonna push down here. And what this is, works to me is the pressure on
pressure off, pressure on, pressure off, pressure on pressure off, so it's just you know
it's a real simple device and Brad and I should let you know that we created it
but that's why we're big advocates of it. We did an event and we have a patent on
it and you know it's a real nice deal. You can you can hang it on the wall and
get it out of the way, real easy. I think the thing about it Brad is is that, you
know, you, Brand I ask ourselves the question what is the best product that
you want to use after knee replacement and it was the new step, but second this
is the second, by far, I can't think of anything else that would work, can help
increase knee flexion as well as this does so. The new step, is almost exclusively
gonna be in the clinic, a few people have purchased them, but, this pretty much if you
can you know anybody can afford they're gonna work on their knee. After you have
a knee surgery for a couple thousand bucks you maybe can go ahead and. If you
can get a knee surgery for a couple thousand dollars. What is it, what do they
run now, eight to ten? I think a twenty or thirty
Are they really? I've never seen the bill, and usually the patients don't talk
about it. A little sticker shock they're for me All right everybody, remember Brad and I
can fix just about anything except for a broken heart. Oh, there it is. Alright, thanks
for watching
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