Knee Wraps & Ice Packs

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Best Knee Wraps As many people who enjoy an active lifestyle are well aware, a life in motion comes with its fair share of knee injury risks . Running, biking, dancing, weight lifting, jumping or water skiing—all of these sports and more can result in a wide variety of injuries to the knee, affecting its ligaments ( ACL tear ) to its cartilage to the kneecap to related muscles. These knee injuries are treated in a variety of ways, requiring differing amounts of restricted motion, compression, and support. BraceAbility offers a variety of knee wraps for treating the vast spectrum of possible knee injuries . Knee Compression Wrap One of the main components of knee injury treatment is to apply compression to the injured region to reduce inflammation and promote blood flow for healing. Compression knee support braces are a great option for minor knee injuries or they can be used in conjunction with a more heavy duty brace, which might be required after undergoing a ligament tear to your knee. This simple elastic knee wrap is easy to slide on and off and provides class 2 compression. This is an active wrap knee support, so it can be used in sports as a knee wrap for running, for instance. (Read about more knee injuries and pain from running .) Another knee brace/wrap that is ideal for treating and preventing muscle strain is a knee compression wrap . A number of activities, such as sprinting, weight lifting, or snowboarding can strain the muscles of your thigh. This style of a brace can help you avoid further injury to an already strained muscle. Knee Ice Wrap Another major component of knee injury treatment that makes up the acronym RICE is to apply ice to the region, again in the interest of reducing inflammation. Quite frankly, applying ice to the knee multiple times a day can be quite a pain. Luckily, our Wrap-Around Brace allows you to conveniently apply ice to your knee hands-free. As you can likely infer from its name, this is not “just” an ice wrap for knee injur