(upbeat music) ♪ Bob and Brad
♪ The two most famous ♪
♪ Physical therapists ♪
♪ On the internet ♪
- Here we go.
Hi folks, I'm Bob Schrupp, physical therapist.
- Brad Heineck, physical therapist.
- Together, we are the most famous physical therapists
on the internet.
- Well, in our opinion, of course, Bob.
- This is something I never thought I'd be saying...
Will your Chi help you feel better?
And we're talking about the Chi machine.
- Right, but Chi is a lot more
than just a machine.
We're gonna talk about that in a little bit,
but first, before we confuse you...
- Yeah, let's see, before we get deep to start.
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I mean, I won't throw this, Bob.
- Yeah, you wrecked it last time.
(Brad chuckles)
So Brad and I are practitioners of Western medicine.
Which means medicine.
(Bob and Brad laughing)
Sorry.
We have no idea...
Well, you probably have had...
you've touched on Eastern medicine.
- Right. Right.
I practiced Aikido,
which is a Japanese form of martial arts.
It's...
Anyway, we'll get into that a little bit.
But go on with what you were doing.
- So anyway, I...
But being practitioners of Western medicine,
I don't wanna overlook Eastern medicine.
- Right.
- We're not qualified to teach.
At least I'm not.
But I thought we'd expose you a little bit to it.
- Right.
- I always think it's good to widen our horizons, right?
- Right.
- And to explore the rest of the world.
We're not always right, and they're wrong.
And we're not always wrong, and they're right.
- Well, we need to work together.
It takes two hands to wash up.
(Bob laughing)
- Right and the left help each other out.
- Many hands make light work.
- Right.
- How's that?
- So anyways getting to the Chi.
- Can I talk about when the start of...
- Oh, you know, you start about Chi first.
- Okay. So when I saw this title right away
it brought me back to my studying Aikido
with the Chi and it relates to the center.
Physic not well that's physically the center
of your gravity is you on your waist line.
And the chi right below the belly button is how the
your energy force flows through.
And so when we did movements in Aikido
we always thought about moving with our center
not with your arms and your legs.
Everything comes from here.
That's where your power is.
When you breathe, you breathe from your center
you don't breathe from your mouth or your chest.
You breathe from your center
everything works wrong, circular motions.
It's very relaxing, Bob.
- Yeah. And I, and it is a meditative thing, but
I think the thing that I've discovered
about it is that it's very complicated.
I mean I saw one scientist spent
a half hour explaining chi.
- Sure.
- So, I mean, I, to me, I understood it.
It's kind of a life force.
Some people describe it kind of
as the bioelectric pulses going through your body.
- Sure.
- But I think the easiest way
for me to understand it is a life force.
I mean, but if you have high Chi
generally you have less illness and less organ damage.
And if you have low Chi
that's when you can get sick and you can have organ damage.
- Sure.
- So we're trying to have high Chi
- And that's what this video's about with our product.
- Right.
- Okay.
- That's what, so this was developed by, well, the
the concept was developed actually
in the early fifties, it was by Dr. Shizuinu,
I'm saying it completely wrong I'm sure.
But he was the director of the Japanese health association.
And he studied, he liked looking at fish.
He liked looking at the koi,
the little...
- Are we going up in a tangent Bob?
- You think we are, but we're not
I'm gonna bring it around.
So what happens is, you know, fish
the little koi, goldfish, Japanese goldfish
swims like this, and that's how it oxygenates itself.
- Okay.
- And, and it gets more blood flow.
So he said, why can't I, you know, extend that to humans.
And you're gonna see how this machine...
- I see where you're going now.
- Yeah. It makes human oxygenate and it
it gets more blood flow
and he thinks it increases their chi.
- Sure.
- He studied it for like 38 years.
- Wow.
- And so it increases blood flow increases chi.
And in fact in, we call it chi exercise machine.
- Okay.
- In Japan they actually call
it the goldfish exercise machine.
- Oh, really?
- Yep. And it extended in China too.
So what one do you wanna get down and show?
- I do, Bob.
Let's get on with the show.
I'm excited about this cuz actually I was using this
and it is it's relaxing and I can see
let's get it going here.
You just lay like this, put your
- [Bob] Put your ankles in there.
- We got some padded...
- [Bob] And Brad's about to look
like a goldfish here going through the water.
So it's got a nice style here where we can put
up the speed and what's it not working?
- It's no, I'm sorry. There's a on, off switch here.
Turn it. You turn it on. It works a lot better.
Okay. So it's a master switch there.
And then a ria stat here that controls the frequency
of oscillation.
And I got it slow here.
- [Bob] And you're trying to match
up with what your natural frequency...
- Frequency
- [Bob] Frequency is.
And I, you know, I don't know about you, Brad
but for me I felt
like I could kind of tell where it was the most relaxing.
- Right.
- [Bob] And it was most natural to me.
- I'll demonstrate.
- [Bob] Yeah. Now he looking it gone here.
- This is not for me, this is too fast.
I'm gonna slow it down.
Very easy to do.
- [Bob] So it's gotta dial and you know it.
First I'll say about the machine it's very well built.
This is a well, well done.
It's called the vitality swing.
I also saw other different names for it.
But as a company US Jaclean, I don't Jaclean.
I don't know how to even say that.
- Wow.
- So we're really having trouble with our pronunciation
save, but it is an expensive machine. It's $225.
But if you are in a believer
of Chi and you're a believer that this could, you know
increase your Chi, it'd be worth well worth it.
Now you're doing what Brad?
You're showing how it's working your center core.
- Right. Right, right.
So outside of the chi
if I'm thinking as a physical therapist trained
in the United States, I'm thinking, well, this, I got
I can feel my pelvis right here in two points called
aysis lysis and it's clearly oscillating
my pelvic pelvis, right to left.
So it's giving some motion and increasing circulation
hopefully to my low back my hips.
And you know, as far as the knees I'm fully extended.
So I don't, I don't see.
- [Bob] Yeah. You're not getting any motion there.
- [Brad] But I can see.
And you know, I've got, as you know
spondylolisthesis a chronic back problem.
Feels really good. I'm very relaxed.
I could lay here for, I don't know how long, but...
- [Bob] Well that's what they recommend Brad,
start off, don't start off too long
three to five minutes and then, you know
let it go and then go to the next day
work your way up to 15 minutes is what they're saying.
Now, for some people I saw this and this, I was one of them.
I didn't like to have my knees hyper extended that long.
And one person suggested you actually take a ball
like this, actually buy two of them
and put them underneath the knees like this.
And I hope we're not, you know, desecrating the chi here
by doing that, but it is more comfortable, isn't it?
- Yeah. Just, and it's a ball that's under inflated
which is comfortable, nice and soft.
And it allows that movement real smooth
to get that, that movement back.
I really do. This really does feel good
on my low back Bob I'm I would...
I had a patient a number of years ago that talked to me
about this and I didn't, I wasn't aware of it.
- [Bob] Seriously?
- Yeah.
- [Bob] Oh really?
- And it's like, I kind of, we talked and she
didn't bring it in, but then you brought this in and said
it brought me back and she liked it.
- They've sold over a million of these.
- Oh really?
- Chi machines not different, not this particular brand
but they've sold over a million.
Chi machines so very popular.
So from the Eastern side, you know,
the hope is they can increase your
Chi from the Western side of medicine, we're look at it.
And I think it would
it would definitely improve blood circulation.
Right Brad? And oxygen.
Would get some movement in your back and hips.
I think it would help with swelling.
There's no doubt your ankles are up and get some movement.
- You got some movement there
- And I think it might help with meditation and stress.
- Yeah. It is relaxing at this speed.
I feel a matter of fact, this is our last video today.
Isn't it, Bob?
- Yep.
- I think I just may stay here for a while.
- Yeah. I think, you know, Brad and I are
we really do try to keep an open mind on things.
So, you know, we're trying to jump into that Eastern side
of medicine too, sometimes just to delve into it
to make sure we're providing you
with all the facts that you need to have a healthy life.
- There you go.
- So healthy fit and pain free.
Go get that Chi.
- There you go.