Frequently Asked Questions
This specific brace is designed to provide moderate compression and mild stabilization for strains and sprain related knee injuries. It would be ideal for returning to an active lifestyle including activities of daily living such as walking, driving, standing, and performing a home therapeutic exercise program. It is not a custom, maximum stabilizing brace custom fit for return to high level sports that require pivoting, lateral movement, cutting, and jumping. This brace would be helpful in the early days of rehabilitation and mobility in and out of the home. Your healthcare team will be the most knowledgeable of prescribing a particular brace for your unique diagnosis as you become aware of the nature of your injury. If you suffer a blow to your knee from an object, or cannot walk more than 8-10 feet, it is recommended you seek emergency care including Insta-Care professional advice and care.
This knee brace ideally, is purchased the day the injury occurs.
It provides protection to your injured knee so that you do not injure it further, rest by encouraging less use of your knee, cooling from the configurable gel packs in the interior sleeve, compression to soothe inflamed tissue and reduce swelling, and allows knee extension/flexion to provide support for allowed activities.
It will take time to determine the severity of your injury. The average customer journey to complete X-rays; MRI’s and MD visits if needed often take many weeks to be scheduled and performed. Most mild to moderate knee sprains and strains heal gradually, however, it takes a certain investment of time, patience, and professional screening to allow these minor injuries to heal.
The Flowstate modular system is designed to create a system approach to optimize knee injuries to heal faster with compliant self care. Our seamless product provides protection, compression, stabilization, and incorporates thermo-therapy. Why? No 2 knees are alike and heal faster when each symptom is addressed compliantly. Consider the “saturation” approach, for a severe sprained knee: swollen, painful, and limits walking. This weekend warrior could ice, add compression, and general stability for 6-8 applications during the day while staying mobile, working, training, caring for family members, travel, basically all Activities of Daily Living.
We recommend Cold/Hot packs to be worn 15 minutes only. After that they may freeze or burn skin, or lose the thermo properties that were useful. Flowstate recommends using the Hot gel packs to warm up the knee joint prior to recreation, or for stretching tight hamstrings. For example: while having coffee or driving to the slopes. We firmly advise to take the gel packs out for sports and activities, they are bulky and gravity will pull them down. Putting the Ice Cold gel packs immediately after sports is ideal. You could even ice during 1/2 time of a soccer game or on the bench. Most people neglect to ice and in a timely manner because it requires a “habit” or steps to ice that are not automatic. Flowstate helps make these strong, self preservation acts easy and attainable.
We use one of the lightest-weight, medical grade neoprene for ideal compression and comfort to encourage long wearing and use throughout the day. Our textiles have been thoroughly researched to please our customer. All softshell materials are washable by hand or delicate cycle with a gentle detergent.