Bob & Brad C2 Massage Gun Reviewed by a Physio

if you're considering buying the Bob and Brad C2 massage gun then this video is going to give you an honest review of

how this product works hi everybody my name is Will Harlow and I'm the over 50s specialist physio here at HT physio in Farnam and today I'm going to be testing

and reviewing the C2 massage gun from Bob and Brad the YouTube's world famous physical therapists now before we dive into the content of the video if you haven't already please

hit like on the video and subscribe to the channel because then you'll be the first to hear about our new videos when they come out now that that's been said let's talk about massage guns what they are and

what they can do for you so a massage gun is a new kind of device that has exploded onto the self and personal care market and basically it's

a vibrating tool that allows you to do self massage on painful muscles in your body and famous physical therapist Bob

and Brad have brought out their own iteration of a massage gun called The C2 massage gun which we're going to have a look at today I'll show you how it works

we'll test it out I'll unbox it in a moment and then it will help you to make the best decision as to whether or not this product is worthwhile for you so let's have a look at the product I'll

show you what it is what you get in the box and how it works so the C2 massage gun comes in this very nice professional looking pouch and I can see the Bob and

Brad logo embossed into the front as well so let's open it up and we'll see what has been put inside so inside this

you have in the open sleeve region you've got your USB charger which is a type c Port which is the newest type of USB charger you've

got an instruction manual here and then you've got the massage gun and the head attachments all nicely laid out so let's get the kit out itself and I was looking

up the Bob and Brad's massage gun before and the gun itself weighs about 600 grams so it's quite a heavy piece of Kit which is exactly what you need because

you need this to be robust because we're going to be using it to get into tight tough muscle groups in the body and you can see here as well that the

massage gun is supplied with five different head settings so I'll show you what they are now you've got this one here which is almost like a microphone it's got a soft sort of foam rollery

type material and that would plug in here like that so that's perfect for the areas that you don't want too much pressure but a nice firm kind of uh tool

with a bit of give to it that would work quite well there and the heads just pop on and off like that you've got this interesting bit of kit here which is like a a hook and that would be perfect

for being used either side of the spine so if you've got something somewhere in the body where a bone fits in the middle there you can go up and down next to it and that would work quite well for you

know neck pain if you've got someone who can do that for you we've got a a softer and flatter setting here which will be perfect for the areas that are a little

bit uncomfortable to get in into with the hard nodules this one is a a nasty tough little thing which will really get into deep trigger

points in areas like the quads and the glutes and the Calves if you're brave enough to use it there so that one is firm it doesn't have any give to it and that would be perfect for your more you

know your deeper trigger points to the areas that need a little bit of help to get into and then you've got another hard one which is a bit flatter just to spread the load

so how does a massage gun like this work and what can it do well I've got to plug in this one here and I'll show you exactly how it works I'm just going to put this to the side

so the massage gun is designed to help you work out knots and tight spots in muscles which can sometimes be responsible for pain around joints now a

lot of the problems that I treat here in my clinic they are are painful issues which people often think of as being due to wear and tear but in reality a lot of

the pain is coming from the muscles around the joints so soft tissue massage is a technique I use quite a lot in the clinic and if people want to replicate

that at home these can sometimes be a good idea to do so so let's say that I've got a painful shoulder and a shoulder problem is often

caused by tightness in some of the muscles that surround the shoulder and that puts a pressure on the shoulder which the body doesn't like and then pain and inflammation starts to develop

as a result so if that was the case for me and I knew that my pectoral muscles at the front were tight an Implement like this would help to release it so I'll show you how it works

so the Bob and Brad massage gun the C2 here has got five different settings and the first one here involves not too much

movement from the device but if you press in you can hear my voice starting to wobble you start to get like a massage action on the area that you're

pressing into now the five settings are basically just designed to increase the speed slowly so this is setting three

I'm pressing it in here again you can hear the changes to my voice as a result of that let's have a look at setting five

in setting five is now giving you some serious power so the nice thing about this kind of setting is feel like the muscles being wet you actually don't have to apply much power

with your hands I'll show you again just really getting into the muscle there without me having to push so if you're not that strong this kind of a tool will still be pretty good

to switch the machine off by the way you just hold the button there there's just one button it's very very easy to use this device now what kind of parts of the body can

be treated with a device like this well as I show you there you can definitely treat your shoulder tight pectorals at the front are often a cause of shoulder pain you can also have a go at the front

and the side of the shoulder too the muscles in the arm here would be quite suitable to being treated too as well as the forearm muscles which tend to get quite tight in people who do lots

of manual work such as myself so I'll show you another demonstration so I'd hold the device like this securing it tightly with my hand

and then massaging the areas finding spots that are a bit sore and then applying a little bit of extra pressure to them

now there are also parts of your body in your lower limbs which would benefit from treatment from a device like this such as the quads and the calves and in a minute I'm going to show you an

example of how you might treat them but before I go into that what I would say is that massage guns unless you have a partner who's willing to help it's

very difficult to get around your back and trying to use them on your lower back I would say is ill-advised and the reason for this is that to contort yourself to the position where you can

get it into your back usually switches the back muscle on more than the massage gun can relax it so you're basically undoing your good work by having to get into an awkward position to apply the

pressure so if you're considering getting one of these for a bad back unless you have someone to help you I would probably think twice although that being said some people do report that it's still

useful so just bear that in mind let's have a look at how this machine works on some of the areas of the lower leg so there are lots of different parts of the body that you can use the sea to

massager on I'm going to show you some examples of how you would use it in your legs so hopefully you can see me sat here I'm going to just show you how it would work if I was to use it on my quad

so for this kind of a muscle it's a big bulky muscle so what I would do is I would probably turn this on to about level three or four and then using the

microphone head which I call it microphone head you can dig into the thigh muscle into the quad and just find some tight spots in that muscle and

apply the pressure there now for people who are just starting with this kind of thing you might start with level one and build up but once you've found a couple of tight

spots you just want to linger over them a little bit longer and apply pressure downwards you might find that there's a little bit

of pain from the area but after a few minutes of treatment that tends to ease up and once that happens you find a new place so the quad is a great place for

treatment here so good for cyclists good for runners good for people who don't do lots of walking as well so that's a really nice place to use the massage gun

too I'll show you another head just to give you an idea of how you might use what we call the trigger point head which is the one which is hard and thin

and like nodular and this is more of an aggressive one which you would use on deep seated knots in areas like the glute so I'm going to demonstrate now on a glute here I do actually have a tight

spot in my glute here so this will show you how I would do that so again with this one I'll probably just turn it on to the first setting just until I'm used to it so I want to just hunt around in

that muscle until I find a tight spot I've got a really tender this spot there so what I would do is just apply some pressure there you can see I'm actually

not forcing it with my hand I'm just supporting the massage gun and just allowing the vibration to do its work in the glute there

now I'm going to show you how that looks if we were to Jack the power up a little bit so I put it up to four and that feels very very different to one and it not necessarily worse just

different it feels like more of a vibration than a than a repetitive um repetitive pounding on the muscle and the interesting thing is here once

you've found those tight spots and you've worked on them for a couple of minutes the pain there starts to decrease so they're not quite as tender as they were now another thing you can do with

massage guns like this if you're using a muscle is to use that muscle to put it on tension and off tension as you hold a painful spot so for a glue I would just

take it forward and back we might try it out to the side and in so the types of movements that that muscle is involved in and that can help to loosen the area up

even more so I'll just switched that off so another area I wanted to show you treatment for is the calf because this is an area that a lot of people find is tight

and for that reason I'm going to use a softer head so this is like a rubbery head with a flat surface just to ease myself into it because I'm a bit of a wimp when it comes to my calf so there's

lots of different ways you can set yourself up to use the calf I'm just going to set myself up like this so you can see and you basically want the muscle to be in a position where it's relaxed

so with this one again we would start off with one of the low settings either one or two and you find the areas that are tight

and you just work your way up and down the length of the muscle and again the thing that's doing the

work here is the massage gun not my arm so you don't need to have the strength for the pro athlete to get the benefits

now you could do this through clothes it doesn't really make a huge difference so that's a a benefit here you don't need to undress to do it and the different heads are worth

experimenting with so those are some of the most common areas I would use the C2 massage Gun 4 if you're considering giving it a go I'd recommend it for

loosening up tight muscles if you don't have access to your own physio or if you want a cost-effective way to loosen up the tightness there then this represents a great option

so that's the Bob and Brad C2 massage gun I hope you've enjoyed this look at the product overall I think this is a fantastic product

it's tough It's robust it's definitely suitable in terms of quality for its price point which at the time of recording is about 70 pounds in the UK I

believe it costs about 80 or 90 in the US and it reflects the price point it's high quality it's well made um I think that Bob and Brad obviously

will have um worked pretty hard to make sure that the quality specifications were up to scratch if they're going to put their name on it and overall out of all of the

massage guns I've tested in the past this ranks pretty highly I've seen lots of different ones and this is much better than the standard ones in the store that I've seen so um

definitely if you're considering giving this a try or giving massage guns a try in general then this would be a great option it's also not that heavy so if you're not overly strong you don't need

to be a pro athlete to use this because you can hold it quite easily it's not massive it comes in a very well presented case you can store it quite easily too

and it also has a variety of different head shapes and sizes which not all of the massage guns on the market have so

that's another Pro now the cons of the C2 massagers are not really specific to this type of massager itself but to the whole family of massage guns as a whole

such as they're not quite as good as getting someone else working on you they're not ideal for all areas of the body and if you use them too

aggressively you can cause yourself an injury so make sure you're careful make sure you read the instructions before you just go gung-ho and cause yourself an injury

anyway that's all I have to say about the C2 massager overall I would give this product an 8 out of 10 because I think that the headings the head

settings there are fantastic and I really like the power that's in the product if you want to get your hands on this I have left a link in the description to

this video for you to check it out and I want to say thank you to the Bob and Brad team for sending me this product to check out and I hope if you try it that you like it anyway that's all from me today if

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anyway that's all I've got to say for you today thank you for watching and look forward to speaking to you on the next one