♪ Bob and Brad ♪
♪ The two most famous ♪
♪ Physical therapists ♪
♪ On the internet ♪
- Hi, folks I'm Bob Schrupp, physical therapist.
- Brad Heineck, physical therapist.
- Alex Kohlmeier, guinea pig.
(chuckles)
- Together we are the most famous physical therapists
on the internet.
- In our opinion, of course, Bob.
- So, we're going to show you how to use TENS today
to get knots from your shoulders, upper back, and traps,
plus we're doing a giveaway!
- Oh, that's something new.
- Yeah and the giveaway is actually going
to be the TENS unit so that's going
to be a nice coincidence, isn't it?
- Oh, yeah, falls right into place.
- And we got to thank Alex here
for coming in and helping us out here.
- No place I'd rather be, Bob. - Yeah, I can tell.
You're going to have to check out Alex and his wife
on their channel, Family Product Channel.
We'll have a link down below.
First off, take a look at the channel and tell me
if he did not marry over his head.
Like she is not--
You guys are not a good match.
- I out kicked my coverage, I admit it.
(chuckles)
- You lucked out. You lucked out big time, Alex.
- Just hopefully she doesn't wake up one day
and realize what she has.
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website. - Website.
Yeah, nice website.
- Thanks for helping me Brad. - Can I throw it?
- Be careful though.
No, the other way around.
- Oh... sorry.
- We'll practice.
- So, if you're not familiar with TENS,
it's called Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation.
It's been around for about 30 years.
It's a great alternative to drug use,
especially with the opioid problems right now.
- Yeah, for pain management.
- Brad and I have been using it--
Well, I've been using it my entire career.
It was going on before you even started.
- Oh, right. Oh, yeah for sure.
- Are we talking about when we had opioids still?
- Yeah, yeah. (laughing)
- Well, we got a little comic relief here.
- Yeah, right?
- So it works by the gate theory,
which means it stimulates nerves
that inhibit the transmission
of pain along the nerve pathway.
I don't know if that means anything to anybody.
It cuts off the pain.
- Yeah, you're glazing my eyes over.
It helps manage pain and when it works for the people,
they really do like it because it's a good alternative
and it works.
- Sure, it also may stimulate our natural opioid production,
endogenous as they call it.
So, it's a great non-drug alternative.
But this surprise me, cause I was reading some studies
on TENS and some of them were kind of so-so, Brad.
Whether it-- does it work, does it not work?
But there was a 1997 study that had really positive use
for the use of TENS with trigger points.
- So a trigger point is like a muscle that's all knotted up.
- Yeah, it's that hyper sensitive nodule
that you find in a muscle, which is a mystery in itself too,
in that people don't really know what cause them.
You see them a lot of times in the upper traps.
- Right, right.
- And your neck, you get them all over the place.
They're really sensitive, they're really painful
and they feel like a nodule.
So this study, and by the way I did write the study down,
cause people always ask.
This study indicated it really was a positive treatment
of nodules and trigger points.
- Right, and help relieve that trigger point.
- So I thought, okay it was 1997,
are there more recent ones?
So I want to PubMed and, yeah, I found three more.
And they were all positive, none of them we're wishy-washy
about it, Brad. They were all positives.
- Again, Alex. - Again, Alex.
- Here we are.
- [Bob] The reason I'm just going to flash this up there,
can you read it?
So you can pause the video
if you want and then you can read them.
For some reason, on studies, the titles--
I mean, look at these. They're 20 words long.
- [Brad] Right and they put it in detail cause that's--
- [Bob] It doesn't make any sense to the lay person.
But the only other thing I was going to show you.
The iReliev has a great TENS unit, we really like it.
I like the 80/80, it's the one that's--
It's rechargeable for one thing.
- Right, you don't have to put the double A
or triple A batteries in every so many days or whatever.
- It's also, it's got EMS which is
electrical muscle stimulation in addition to the TENS.
- So you could use this for working out.
There's programs if you want to strengthen
your abdomen muscles or your thigh, you can use it.
As well as recovery, that's one thing I've learned.
- Yeah, it's great for recovery or it's great
after you've maybe had surgery or something
and you're trying to build muscles back up.
- Sure, yep.
- So, Alex here.
Why don't you go ahead and take your sweater off, Alex?
- Oh.
- I had that choke all lined at the beginning,
isn't that funny?
- Yeah, yeah. - Yeah, you did.
- You're killing me, Bob.
- So, this little asterisks here,
that's representing a nodule and a lot of times,
that's one of the spots you have it.
I wouldn't even doubt if there's one right there right now.
So, one of the ways to hook up TENS,
and you can experiment with this,
there's not really a right or wrong.
There's two leads here and one set of leads,
leads to this one and this one.
So, they are across from each other.
And these two are across from each other and you get
that cross pattern going.
- [Brad] This is how you'd set up
for what we call interferential.
It's a little bit different reason but it's the same setup.
- [Bob] Another way you can do it, you can actually,
you can put one right on top of the pain if you want.
And then I would probably move these around
into a different spot.
You don't want to have the ones too close
to each other that are on the same lead.
You can go one above, one below.
I mean, you can just literally experiment with it.
- And you'll know.
When you're the person that has it on,
you can feel where the sensation is coming from and you'll
say, "Geez, maybe that one should be moved a little bit."
and then you move it and see how it responds.
- So what's nice about this then,
Alex could then put his shirt on, thank god,
and you wouldn't be able to see these electrodes and pads.
And then you could just stick it in your pocket
and you could have it on for hours if you want.
- You may not leave it on for hours
but you could turn it on and off throughout the day.
- Exactly and a lot of times,
there is some after effect of it.
If you do it and do it for like an hour,
the pain may go away for two, three hours.
Especially with the endogenous opioids.
- [Alex] Spell that one, Brad.
- Spell that one? Yeah.
(laughing)
Good idea.
If you want to get one of these--
I don't know how many we're giving away for sure.
I think we're giving away three of these.
We haven't confirmed it with the company yet
but if you want to buy one, well, we'll link below.
It's got a 10% discount
if you use the discount code BobandBrad.
Spell it all out.
It's free shipping and it's a 45 day return
and you'll be happy with it I think, right?
- It takes 45 days to return it?
- No, you can have up to 45 days
to return it. - Oh, a trial.
So if you're not happy after 45 days,
you can return it and get a refund.
- That's right, that's right.
- You really can't go wrong.
- No, you can't.
- Alright, thanks Alex.
- Can I get back to the job I signed up for, Bob?
- Yeah, that's right.
(laughing)