So, your knee hurts. What’s your next step? First, always seek the guidance of a health care professional. Treatment may include rest, ice, rehabilitation, and in the worst-case scenarios, surgery. They may also recommend the use of a knee sleeve or a knee brace. Braces and sleeves have different functions, so be sure to understand which one is right for you. Let’s examine the differences.
Kinesiology tape is not just for the pros, though. Any level of athlete or an active person can find benefits from its use. When it is worn correctly, kinesiology tape acts to support muscles and relieve pain in muscles, joints, and ligaments. Here's a GUIDE how to use it.
Our feet do an incredible amount of work every day and bear the weight of our sometimes too heavy bodies. They move us through all planes of motion, speed us toward emergencies, and allow us the kind of mobility that we often take for granted. Did you know that there are 26 bones and 30 joints inside each of your feet? There are also over 100 muscles, tendons, and ligaments all working in concert to keep us moving. It’s no wonder then that many, myself included, experience acute or chronic foot pain.
Physix Gear has been providing compression socks and fitness gear since 2015, and one of the latest products to release has been the new flower compression socks. Here’s everything you need to know about this new product.
Perhaps you have wondered whether you really need compression socks, what compression socks even are, or if standard socks are enough for you? Compression socks offer so many more benefits than regular socks, though - keeping muscles warm prior to activities, increasing blood flow during and after activities, and even preventing injuries, to name a few.
You may not realize just how easy it is to not get enough movement in during times like these – the Covid19 Pandemic. Working from home, Zoom calls, possibly schooling from home, and many places that provide opportunities for walking or working out closed, many have had to adjust – and many of the tasks during the majority of our days are highly sedentary ones. Wearingfull length compression socks during the day can be a great way to boost blood flow and stay healthier during low-density movement periods.
Knee braces and knee sleeves provide different benefits and are for specifically different uses, and one or the other may especially provide you with necessary relief during the current COVID-19 (Coronavirus) pandemic while you are either stuck at home or out working longer than normal hours as essential personnel.
Massage balls and massage guns both promise relief for sore knotted tired muscles. Which is better to purchase and use, though? When you look for a massage tool, you want something that will increase blood flow, decrease lactic acid and Interrupt the pain cycle in the brain.
Sometimes kinesiology tape is confused with athletic tape (despite athletic tape almost always coming only in a bland, white color) – but these two tools are actually quite opposite of each other.
