Knee Stabilizing Brace

The Unloader Knee Brace: A Comprehensive Guide to Post-Operative Recovery and Knee Support

This comprehensive guide details the features and functionalities of the Unloader Knee Brace, a specialized orthotic designed for comprehensive knee support and recovery, particularly in post-operative scenarios and for various knee ailments. This brace is specifically tailored to address issues such as osteoarthritis, bone-on-bone pain, cartilage repair, and other forms of knee degeneration.

Product Overview and Features

The Unloader Knee Brace is meticulously engineered to provide superior support and stabilization for the knee joint during recovery and rehabilitation. Its multifaceted design incorporates multiple features, each contributing to optimal comfort, mobility, and pain management.

Unloading and Stabilization:

The brace's primary function is to unload pressure from the knee joint, a critical factor in alleviating pain and promoting healing, particularly for conditions like osteoarthritis. This unloading effect is achieved by strategically distributing forces across the joint, thereby promoting more comfortable mobility and accelerating the recovery process. The brace’s design also addresses chronic medial and lateral knee instability, effectively stabilizing the affected areas. These preventative and progressive features assist in potentially delaying the necessity for surgical intervention.

Adjustable Design for Enhanced Mobility:

A key feature of this brace is its adjustable design, which enhances knee mobility while providing crucial stabilization. The brace carefully limits unwanted side-to-side movements, ensuring the knee joint maintains proper alignment. It effectively adjusts for variations in Valgus/Varus alignment, accommodating individuals with knock knees or other alignment issues. This adaptive capability makes it an ideal solution for both rehabilitation and everyday support. The brace assists in preventing re-injury and supports optimal knee rehabilitation across varied conditions.

High-Quality Materials for Comfort and Durability:

Crafted from high-quality, breathable nylon material, the brace prioritizes wearer comfort. The lightweight design allows for extended wear during daily activities without compromising support. Its inherent breathability and comfort features ensure that prolonged use does not result in discomfort, irritation, or skin sensitivity.

Controlled Range of Motion:

The Unloader Knee Brace features removable extension and flexion sliders, crucial for managing the knee's range of motion. Precise control over the extent of flexion and extension movement is vital for promoting healing and preventing further damage or injury, particularly during recovery from surgical or other procedures. This carefully crafted feature is superior to many products on the market, owing to the inclusion of double hinge adjustments at both the top and bottom of the brace. This broader application area equally distributes force, further contributing to comfort and proper recovery after injury.

Lightweight and Breathable Design:

Understanding the importance of comfort, the brace was designed with patient comfort in mind. This prioritizes the avoidance of skin irritation or sensitivities often associated with prolonged brace wear. The adjustable straps, featuring a non-slip lining, ensure a secure and customized fit. This personalized fit up to a 30-inch thigh circumference ensures proper stabilization and support while minimizing slippage or discomfort.

Orthopedist Recommended for a Broad Range of Conditions:

The Unloader Knee Brace is not just beneficial for general joint support, but it is also a widely used solution across a comprehensive range of knee conditions. It is frequently recommended by orthopedists for conditions such as Rheumatoid Arthritis, Mild to severe unicompartmental Osteoarthritis, bone-on-bone knee pain, meniscal cartilage derangement, articular cartilage defect repair and recovery, avascular necrosis, tibial plateau fracture healing, and knee cartilage repair. Its vast applicability stems from its ability to provide comprehensive support for the recovering knee joint.

Measurement and Fitting Method: The Three-Point System

The Unloader Knee Brace employs a three-point orthopedic mechanics system to maximize joint space and alignment. This approach targets the force distribution and leverage points to provide greater stability and effective pressure reduction.

Explaining the Three-Point System:

This method's core principle is using precision adjusting of force lines to expand space in the injured area of the knee joint. The inclusion of two hinges allows precise angle adjustments to widen the force area. This method aims to alter pressure on the joint's affected regions, thereby creating a more stabilized environment for the recovery process. This innovative technique promotes quick and accurate restoration of the joint's alignment.

Simplified Fitting Instructions:

Proper fitting of the brace is critical for optimal support and comfort. Follow these steps to ensure a customized and effective fit:

1. Begin from the lower section by securing the first strap around the lower leg, positioned above the calf muscles. This placement prevents slippage.
2. Secure another strap around the calf to ensure lower leg stability.
3. Conclude this process by correctly wrapping the remaining straps to support the upper leg. This completes the process for a completely secured fit.

Implementing the Knee Flexion, Extension Adjustments

• Removing screws allows for the precise placement of flexion or extension stops.
• The use of a screwdriver for removing or repositioning the screws is essential.
• Pegs with a rectangular back are designated for extension settings, while circular-backed pegs are used to control flexion.

Precise placement of these pegs and subsequent re-insertion of the screws are critical for accurately adjusting the brace's range of motion. It is essential for both the internal and external hinges to have identical adjustments in angles to ensure precise functional output.

Conclusion

The Unloader Knee Brace offers a comprehensive and effective solution for various knee conditions, including post-operative recovery, osteoarthritis, and other forms of knee pain and degeneration. With its unique adjustable design and customizable range of motion features, this specialized orthotic is tailored to promote healing and ensure comfort. Its expert design methodology, ease of use, and breadth of application make it a valuable tool in managing and treating a vast spectrum of knee injuries and conditions.

【Unloading & Stabilization】

Unloader OA Knee Brace is profession designed for postoperative recovery and rehabilitation of the knee joint. Knee brace helps delay the need for surgery. Knee support brace can provide the best protection in all stages of knee joint rehabilitation. The OA support for bone on bone reducing knee pressure and unloading pressure off the knee joint. Medical offloading knee brace is effective in the recovery of medial and lateral chronic knee instability.

【Adjustable Design】

Improves Knee Mobility and Movement: This knee brace limits the knee joint's side movement, ensuring it stays aligned for more comfortable and pain-free mobility. It is designed to offer Valgus / Varus adjustment correction and can be used as a bowed knee brace for knock knees and offers superior knee rehabilitation from most injuries and preventing re-injuries.

【High-quality Material】

Breathable and comfortable nylon material, lightweight, high fit, comfortable to wear, can be worn for a long time in daily activities, very easy to use.

【Range of Motion】

The removable knee brace comes with adjustable knee extension and knee flexion sliders to limit and prevent knee hyperextension and flexion. Compared with other products on the market, this brace adds two hinge adjustments at the top and bottom for a larger overall force area and more uniform force. Ensures postoperative bone to bone knee support protection and perfect recovery from most painful knee injuries.

【Light & Breathable】

Knee braces for knee pain human designed with patientcomfort in mind to minimize any skin irritation or sensitivity. The knee brace straps are adjustable to fit up to 30” of thigh circumference and made with a non-slip lining that ensures the knee brace fits snugly and anti slip to achieve custom-fitted knee brace orthosis grip and fit.

【Orthopedist Recommend】

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Measurement Method

Three Point Systeam

Three-point orthopedic mechanics is adopted toexpand the space of the damaged joint by adjustingtheforce line, and two hinges are used to adjust the Angleto increase the force area and change the pressure onthe surface of the joint, so as to makethe support morestable, reduce the pressure and wear on the affectedarea, relieve pain, and resumewalking. As shown inthe picture, the inner pain isrelieved by increasingthe external pressure.

Offer Instrucation to Make Fitting Easier

1. Secure strap 1 around the leg.lt should be abovethe calf muscle to prevent sliding

2. Secure strap 2 around the calf for lower leg stability

3. Wrap straps 3 & 4 for upper leg stability