♪ Bob and Brad, ♪
♪ the two most famous physical therapists on the internet. ♪
- Hi, 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, Bob. Put that down!
- A little hint of what we're gonna talk about there.
We're gonna talk about trigger finger.
- Carry on, carry on.
- If you have it you probably know it generally affects
the thumb or the ring finger or the ring finger
or the middle finger.
- Get your fingers figured out.
- Ring finger, middle finger or thumb.
- Okay.
- Most common, very common in older women.
- Okay.
- As you get up into forties and sixties,
it tends to happen.
- So what are the symptoms of a trigger finger?
- First off, if it's very stiff and tender in the mornings
and you may actually, quite often,
usually I see a lump right here on the palm of the hand.
- Right where the palm meets the finger. Okay.
- And it pops and clicks,
but the the telltale sign is if it locks in place.
- So when you close your hand
that's when it's gonna go like a click.
- It could, it could be when you close
it could even, you could close it fine.
And then when you open it-
- It doesn't wanna open.
- Yeah. It doesn't wanna open.
- And then you get past that point.
- Yeah.
- And it usually hurts to get past that point.
Is that correct?
- Right. It's not a fun thing.
- Okay.
- So we actually have a video on that too,
on different ways to treat it,
but this Brace Ability and I'll put the name down here
and I'll put their link down below.
- Sure.
- They're a place that sells braces
and a lot of nice braces.
- Yep.
- And they sent us one of these
and they say she sent us three of these
and we used them on patients.
- Sure.
- And they really liked them.
- The patients did.
- The patients really liked them.
- Okay.
- What they like about it is that one,
it's one size fits all.
'Cause normally a brace like this
you have to have fitted, believe it or not.
And in fact, we had a lady who had a brace that was fitted
for her and she lost it.
- So the custom brace.
- Yep.
- Okay. - It was a custom brace.
And so we gave her one of these
and she ends up finding the other brace
while she's wearing this one.
And she still prefers this one.
- Over the custom one.
- Yeah. Over the custom one.
- Sure.
- So she's still wearing this.
So that's, I thought it was a good testimony to that.
- Right. So what does that do, Bob?
- Well, the thing is it, it stops you
from bending the finger all the way.
- So the first two joints can bend.
- Right.
- But the one closest to the palm is the one
that has the problem.
And that's the one that stays still.
So you don't-
- That's exactly right.
So one of the problems with braces quite often
is if they brace the whole thing
you can't move it at all, which is not good.
- Right.
- You wanna have some movement.
So it kind of gives a solution here
'cause it gives you some movement
but it doesn't give you the movement
that's gonna cause it to lock up.
- And that's the painful part.
- Right.
- Unfortunately this is not gonna make your pain go away,
it may make your problem go away.
- Right.
- It's likely still gonna be there.
I know there's injections you can do.
And there's surgery and a lot of people,
even after all that, it can come back.
- Sure.
- So my only suggestion about this
and we're gonna show you how to put this on
in just a minute.
But my only suggestion for this would be
to make it like a tan color.
- We're talking to the manufacturer.
- Talking manufacturer, that way it wouldn't be
so noticeable.
- Right.
- 'Cause it, it is quite-
- Right.
- Looks like a ring this way, but-
- Sure. Kinda a weird ring though, Bob.
- Yeah. I don't have it all the way.
- We're gonna show him how to put it on.
- Yeah, let's do that right now.
We'll cut away.
All right.
We're gonna start off, you're gonna take the brace
and you're gonna put it...
You're gonna have your palm up here like this
just to see where you're putting it here.
And it's gonna below that knuckle right here.
You're gonna put it right below the ring where-
- Where the joint is.
- Yeah. Where the joint is.
So you're gonna put it like that, flat,
and you're gonna pull up the one side,
pull up the other side.
It's a little clumsy.
And then you're gonna go ahead and tighten it up.
- Good old Velcro, huh Bob?
- Velcro. It's this and there you go.
And once it's on
you can tighten it up a little bit more yet.
And there you go. It's all ready to go.
- Excellent.
- So thanks a lot to BraceAbility.
- You bet. Nice brace.
- All right.