hey everybody it's doctor jo, and today i'm going to show you how to
use a percussion massager or a massage gun to relieve back pain. so let's get started.
so before we get started, if you haven't already, make sure and click on the subscribe
button below because it helps build my channel. so today i'm going to use the
ireliev wireless percussion massager, and i'll talk a little bit more about it later.
so percussion massagers are great because they use more fast, soft kind of percussions or beats
to really get down deeper into the tissue. so this is not like a traditional massager,
it works differently. so a lot of times it's going to feel more pressure and a little bit more than
what you would just feel with a massager. so make sure that you are cleared to be able to use it by
your doctor or your physical therapist because there are some precautions that go with it.
so when you are using the precaution massager on your low back, it's really great for things like
if you have muscle soreness, or if you've got a little bit of inflammation back there,
or if you're just trying to relieve some tightness or stiffness in your low back.
and if you're a research person, a lot of research does show that this really helps with doms, which
is a delayed onset of muscle soreness. so if you um work out really hard one day, but you're not
sore right away and then it comes in like 24 hours or 48 hours later, that's like that delayed onset,
and so it really shows that it's very effective in helping prevent that. so these are really nice
for that as well. and so um what i'm going to do is show you how it's very easy to to massage
yourself because of the way the the handle is. and so you can you can even kind of hold
it up upside down and get back there, and you know move it up and down on your muscles in your back.
the big thing is um don't really go right on your spine, and i'll show you a little uh adapter head
to do if you want to go between the spines later. so i'm just going to turn it on to the first one,
and what's really nice about the iReliev is that it has three different settings. so i'm going to
start with the low one here, and so you can see it's really easy for me to get into those muscles
if i want to even go up into the mid back here, i can jump over to the other side. and sometimes
that's a little bit easier makes me talk a little funny while i'm talking with it like
i'm talking into a fan um, but it's nice because some of them that don't have this type of handle
are a little bit harder to be able to use the massager on yourself. but again with the ireliev
wireless percussion massager, what i really like is it's wireless, so you don't really have to
deal with the cord to move around and have to stay close to something. so it's rechargeable which i
really like about that, and again it has the three different settings. so here you can see this one,
and then you can bump it up, and so you can see that's going a lot faster. and then the
third one. so it's a quicker motion but a lot of times the faster one is actually a little bit
smoother. so that's really nice as well. and also like i had mentioned earlier there's different
massage heads that you can use for different things and so that's uh really nice as well.
this is the general one that you can use and so again you know you can you can go up all
the way into your neck and shoulders down into your back, but it it's easy to use on
your own. but if you have somebody at home that can um massage it for you, sometimes it's nice
because then you can get a little more specific to the spots. so um i really need a model.
there he is! this is my trusty model brian. and so just to kind of show you that you you can use
it on yourself or um use it on someone else that it makes it really easy to do so. if he's got some
soreness in his um low back muscles, maybe the erector spinae muscles that come even up here a
little bit, you don't want to push hard. so if i'm going to massage his muscles through here
i don't have to push deep in there, and i can i can do it over his shirt, or i can do it under
on the bare skin you can really do it either way. but what's you don't want to have to push so hard.
let the massager do the work for you. you can go all the way up.
the biggest thing is you don't really want it to go right over his spine because it'll it'll make a
weird bumping and movement like that. and so it's not very comfortable. it's really designed to use
over the muscle tissue. so they have like i said the different massage head which is the
fork massage head. and i think this one's really neat because if you're going along the spine,
you don't want to be on the spiny, you don't want to be on those bony spinous processes,
but you want to be on the sides of them where those those muscles are. so this is nice because
you can go in between and just go all the way down not hitting that spine. so it's a really
nice way to just kind of loosen up those muscles. and a lot of times if you have that general
back pain or soreness, those are the muscles you want to get really
nice and loosened up. and hopefully it feels good. it should always feel good. it should never
be painful. there are some precautions that you really need to be aware of. you know if you have
blood issues, or circulation issues in general, even sensation issues, so if you don't have really
good sensation to know if it's hurting or not, you really don't want to do that. so make sure
you're getting cleared about your doctor or your physical therapist to be doing these. and and it's
always best to have you know the professionals show you how to do them as well because
you know a little bit goes a long way here. so you're not doing like a 30 minute massage.
you're really just kind of getting in there a few minutes of that nice deep tissue massage in there.
whoop he's in and out. he's always gone. if you're interested in purchasing the iReliev
wireless percussion massager, make sure and click on the link up there, and don't forget to
subscribe by clicking down there. and remember be safe, have fun, and i hope you feel better soon.