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- Hi Folks, I'm Bob Schrupp, physical therapist.
- Brad Heineck, physical therapist.
- We are the most famous physical therapists
on the internet.
- In our opinion, of course, Bob.
- Today, we're gonna talk about
how to massage your foot pain away.
A simple self massage.
There's three simple techniques.
- Right.
- Why make things complicated?
- Exactly, Bob.
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- All right so, let's go to the massage, Brad.
Quit wasting time here.
So, three simple ones to do.
You know, this is great for plantar fasciitis.
If you hit a section that's really tender,
work around that section.
- Mgm, yep.
- Don't hit it right away.
The first one I like, Brad,
is to actually do circles.
Now, you can do circles using one
finger on top of another.
- Yep.
- Or you can actually take your knuckle
and use that to make circles.
But that really helps break things up.
If you have some scar tissue in there,
or if you have some, you know,
micro tears that are healing,
this can actually work things out.
- Muscles that are tight, those little
muscles that are in your foot that
kind of hold things in.
The other thing is, a lot of times,
your fingers get tired, if you're using
your fingers and you switch a new technique
just so that you give your fingers a break.
- That's a very good point, Brad,
'cause actually it's hard on your joints even,
of the fingers, especially if you have
arthritis or anything like that.
It makes it more difficult.
So, you can do some circles and you can
go all the way through in to the heel, even.
- Yep.
- And all up to these pads up here, too.
All right, the next one is what we call
a splaying massage.
S, P, L, A, Y, I, N, G.
And this is really good for plantar fasciitis.
- [Brad] Did you find it important to spell it?
- [Bob] Well, I thought they maybe
couldn't understand me.
- [Brad] Well, that's a good point.
- [Brad] All right, this is a nice technique.
- [Bob] Yeah, this is a nice technique.
So, what we're doing is, we're taking
our thumbs, we start in the middle
and you pull it apart like this.
And again, if it's too tender to do it,
work around it.
Hit the areas that you can tolerate.
Generally, with plantar fasciitis,
you can have pain right here.
So, I might start right up here
and work on it.
Now, you can also use your palms.
- I've got a thumb injury, so I'm forced
to use my palms and it's working out well.
- Using the fat pads of your thumbs, basically.
- [Brad] Is that the hypothenar eminence?
- [Bob] Yeah, I think that's
the thenar eminence.
(laughs)
- [Brad] Hypo is the other side.
- [Bob] Well, it'd be both, right?
- [Brad] Well no, it's both the thenar.
- [Bob] We're in discussion here, it's solved.
And the last one, again, trying to keep
things real simple.
You're just gonna do what we
call longitudinal massage.
You're going along with the fibers
of the tissues.
And again, you can use finger on top of finger
or you can use the whole hand here.
You can also use the palm there.
- You know, you do this right before
you go to bed, Brad, and you're gonna
sleep like a baby.
- Oh yeah, I mean it's good.
- Your feet are gonna feel great.
- Well, it really gets the circulation.
If you're a person that always has cold feet,
this is definitely gonna help increase
the circulation and hopefully warm them up.
- I would say even organotherapy,
I'd give it a try.
- Sure.
- Because, the more you give blood flow
to an area, generally the better
it is for the nerves.
So now, there's many of you out there
I'm sure, Brad, that don't want to
massage their own feet.
- My wife has done it for me.
- No kidding.
- Not very often.
- This is when you were dating?
- Even post-marriage.
- Really? - Yeah.
- Wow.
- I've got to admit, she's a wonderful
wife, I love her to death.
- That's shocking to me.
- But it doesn't happen a lot, so,
this is one where I depend upon.
- Right, we've mentioned a unit like this
in the past and this one, actually,
they sent it to us and this one
actually is better than the one we had before.
This is the Renpho, R, E, N, P, H, O.
Is it all right if I say that?
- Go ahead, spell it out, Bob.
- You can put the spelling up there, Marcus.
Shiatsu foot massager.
- No.
- This one is less expensive
and I think it works better.
- Shiatsu?
- Yeah, and we have it in our Amazon
description down below on our Amazon foot price.
But these things are awesome.
I mean, anybody we have try it, I mean,
I wanna do a video, Brad, where we just
show people who are trying this.
- Sure.
- Seriously, have people try it
and get their first reaction.
- Whatever you say, Bob.
- I think you're probably limited
to a size 12, that's what Liz was saying,
our camera woman.
- Don't you have size 12?
- I have 12.
- I should put my sock back on.
- Yeah, put your sock back on, Oh My God.
- I just broke the quarantine on it.
- Yeah, no kidding.
By the way, you can take out the inner lining
and wash it and sterilize it if you need to.
- Make sure you take it off before you wash it.
- So, it's got a timer on there, so you can
set the timer for, you know,
fifteen, thirty minutes, okay.
Liz knows more about it than I do.
And it's got a needing intensity,
low, medium and high.
And it's got an air intensity,
where it kind of squeezes your foot.
- Right.
- So, what I like about this one
is it gets the whole foot.
It's not just part of it.
It's upper foot, lower foot.
- Right, the compression completely
capitulates it and I like it because
you can very, independently, leak
air compression versus the mechanical massage.
- Right, and what you can do with this,
I would recommend by the way, is start
on the lowest setting, see how you tolerate it,
if that's not enough, go to the medium,
but don't jump into the high one
because, for some of us, it's a
little bit aggressive.
And that's what I wanted to see
because I've got old feet and it's gotta
be young feet that saying, Hey,
I wanna have as much as you can give me here.
- You got old everything, Bob,
head to toe.
- That's true, I'm not gonna deny it.
I'm on the elder side of life.
- Well, I'm not far behind, I gotta admit
and there is also a heat setting,
which again on this one, it looks very-
- No offense, but I just, on any of these,
I just don't feel much heat.
- Well, they're just on a tall base
with a skinny cord.
You can't develop much heat with that.
- Sure.
- But, you're not buying this for the heat,
you're buying this thing 'cause
this thing gives a great massage
and I like the price because the older
one we had off there was like 150 bucks,
this is 105.99 but they have
a 10 dollar off coupon.
- There you go.
- 95.
You could pay someone, you would be able
to pay someone to give you massages
like this every night.
And when you're feet are sore, I'll sit there,
I'll run it through like five times.
- Really?
- Yeah, yeah.
It just, I'll watch TV shows
and just let it go.
Any other comments, Brad?
- No, no, I'm just experimenting with
the low, medium, high on both,
and like you said, the high is pretty
aggressive but it's nice that you can vary it.
- I can tolerate it.
- You're just saying that 'cause you're a guy.
- Yeah, that's right, I'm tough as nails.
(laughs)
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