I had no idea what bfr was when they
first told me they were going to try to
be Fr machine I thought what is that and
they explained the whole process once
you use the Machine you could see it and
feel it you can remember the blood flow
restriction
DFR is actually really hard to come by
most places excuse in the United States
today are some Division one college and
professional level athletes so being
able to be part of this was awesome
because it's like groundbreaking stuff
in the field of physical therapy with
VFR you are able to strength train your
muscles get a lot bigger at a very light
load which typically you'd have to do
heavy lifting and doing under a light
load you can actually start rehab much
quicker which results in a much quicker
recovery so you're able to get a patient
better and much fewer number of visits
the way it works they use a surgical
grade tourniquet and they place it above
the joint on an appendage so mine was my
knee so we put the tourniquet on my
upper thigh you can also use it for like
your are they increase the pressure in
the tourniquet they find the optimal
pressure that's going to work best for
you you do the exercises with the
tourniquet on and pretty much you're
restricting all this blood flow to your
appendage and you're trying to do all of
this exercises and you don't have to do
like crazy weight-bearing stuff to get
the same results we've had them all
through the age groups I just saw a guy
last night he's probably using 50s had
stem cell implants those needs so he's
trying to avoid surgery trying to avoid
a knee replacement so they did the stem
cell without BFRs perfect because he
cannot do high loads we had another
young kid and he's a football player
he's stirring his hamstring he was
getting better
he doesn't have power and it was during
season and he wanted to get his power
back because they had a chance to go
state so we did the uh part with him and
he could believe it in a couple weeks he
had his power he felt that he couldn't
get that burst of speed math would be a
far gives you that it's fast twitch
muscles what you need to give that power
and that's when we got back
pretty cool I think for us to reach our
patients where it's the best is not only
athletes but your elderly patients who
can't tolerate strength training under
heavy load lifting but they need to be
able to gain strength in order to go up
and down the stairs get up and out of
the chair they need to be able to do
that but they can't handle heavy loads
due to pain or recent surgery so it this
blood flow restriction therapy and they
will just to use it through a whole
lifespan of patients I've had seven
surgeries on my knee and two really bad
infections they said I was a perfect
candidate for the bfr machine so they
started me on it and at first with doing
exercises I couldn't get through the
whole series within time they started
gradually adding weights on my ankle and
I can see the results of being able to
walk without pain I don't limp anymore
and I can stand for a longer period of
time it helped my quality of life
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