Product Highlight: E75 Knee Compression Sleeves
Our product highlight series covers our E75 line of compression sportswear. These educational posts will give you a better idea of all the compression options that we carry, as well as recommended usages for each option. This week, we’ll be highlighting Enerskin’s Knee Compression Sleeves.
Knees frequently absorb much of the forces from sports and workouts. From running to jumping to weightlifting, athletic activity can place a lot of impact on your knees. It’s not surprising that over a 10 year period, 6.6 million knee injuries were reported in the United States alone!
Prevention is key when it comes to knee longevity. Good technique, warm-ups, and cool-downs are most important during workouts. Knee sleeves can be another tool to add to the injury prevention arsenal. Knee sleeves help protect the knees, improve recovery, and increase proprioception, which is the awareness of the position of your body.
An Introduction to Knee Sleeves
Knee sleeves are sleeves worn over your knees that typically don’t include any hinges or straps. They provide support to the knees without limiting their natural range of motion or immobilizing any tendons or ligaments. Because of this, knee sleeves are best used for injury prevention as opposed to post-injury protection. For injuries that are still healing, knee braces, which typically contain hinges and straps, are better able to provide ligament support.Knee sleeves also offer compression, which increases blood flow and improves recovery and subsequent performance. A compressed knee allows more blood to flow through the blood vessels in the knee, resulting in less soreness and swelling after workouts.
In addition, knee sleeves increase proprioception, which helps you better able to tell the position of your joints in space relative to other parts of your body. Having a better sense of where your knees are is a huge factor in better performance and positioning that reduces risk of injury during workouts and competitions.
When to Wear Knee Sleeves
There’s no need to wear knee sleeves for every activity, but they can be excellent for sports that involve a lot of running, jumping, or knee-centric forces. In weightlifting, knee sleeves are great for deadlifts and squats, which put a lot of strain on the knees.
If you’re relatively new to the sport or activity, knee sleeves may not provide the same amount of relief as they do for more experienced athletes working with more weights or impact to joints. However, knee sleeves are still great for support and injury prevention.
E75 Knee Compression Sleeve Set
Enerskin offers top-quality knee compression sleeves in our E75 line of compression products. The Knee Compression Sleeves we carry provide targeted knee support, reducing strain, pain, and swelling with concentrated compression and support. Targeted coverage for the key muscles surrounding the knee promotes healing and support to guard against strain, for the power to finish stronger and recover faster.The E75 Knee Compression Sleeves are composed of 65% nylon and 35% spandex. Our revolutionary Enerflex fabric was carefully tested and developed to provide the exceptional hold of professional-grade compression with superior comfort even during the hardest workouts.
We use a patented silicone printing technology that allows for multiple layers of silicone tape to be printed directly onto the compression fabric. The integrated tape increases the level of compression - up to 200% more than typical compression gear - and prevents the fabric from overstretching, so compression never diminishes.
The E75 Knee Compression Sleeves have also received the FDA’s Class II approval. Our performance data was gathered through public health trials and rehabilitation research centers in the United States and South Korea.
Closing Thoughts
The bottom line - good technique, along with proper warm-ups and cool-downs, are the biggest ingredients in knee injury prevention. Knee sleeves are a great supplementary tool that provide additional support and recovery improvement.
Enerskin is excited to offer professional-grade athletic gear to anyone that wants to up their own sports, training, or recovery regimen. We put our money where our mouth is and have backed up our products with the highest-quality materials and research since day one.
Sources:
http://blog.muellersportsmed.com/knee-sleeves-what-are-they-and-when-to-wear-them
