Types of Knee Braces
A functional knee brace are knee braces with give support to knees that have already been injured. You will want to use functional knee braces after surgery to help recover and rehabilitate the ligaments inside the knee. In general, knee braces are designed to aid in the recovery of painful or injured knees.
Protect Your Knee from Injury with a Knee Brace. We know, as an athlete, you don't want to be held back by an injury. Our line of knee braces have been designed specifically with the athlete in mind to help you stay in the game despite injury or for those looking to prevent injury.
A prophylactic knee brace is designed to protect the knee against injury during sports. Wearing a prophylactic knee brace may help reduce the knee pain an athlete feels. A prophylactic knee brace can limit the stress put on the ligaments of the knee.
Rehabilitative knee braces are also a great tool to protect the knee joints and ligaments to prevent future or recurring injury. The knee brace displayed on the left is the Ossur CTI Pro Sport OTS Ligament Knee Brace, and on the right is the Functional Prophylactic Knee Brace for Ligament Tears.
Unloader knee braces unload the affected, painful side of the knee using a 3-Point Leverage System. The thigh and calf shells account for two points of leverage, while the Dynamic Force Strap (the diagonal strap above the knee) provides the third.