The knee joint is an important joint in our sports life, so we must pay attention to protecting our knees when we exercise. However, many people will have such a question: patella band and knee brace. I should choose which one? Isn't that the same thing? I'm going to do the solution today.
The role of the patellar band:
Patellar belts have two main functions: one is fixed patella knee without sufficient warm-up and very vulnerable when beyond their limits, especially mountaineering walking, ball games against damage in the knee joint is a great game, patellar is the body's biggest sesamoid knee, embedding in the quadriceps tendon, flat bone for the triangle, not connected to other bones. The possibility of displacement during intense motion. The patellar band acts as a stabilizer for the patella. The second is to reduce meniscus wear. meniscus characteristics determine that it is hard to avoid wearing in sports. The patellar band plays a connecting role at this time.
The patella band can relieve discomfort and even pain in the knee after running. The root cause of this discomfort and pain is the insufficient strength of the muscles around the knee joint of the runner, causing the ligament to bear too much load. The principle of the patellar band is to help the patellar ligament to share the force during movement, and to stabilize the patella within a certain range to avoid excessive friction. Therefore, the use of the patellar band is not only a palliative, but also easy to cause the body to over-rely on the auxiliary role of the patellar band, which makes the muscle group with insufficient strength become weaker. After a long time, you will find that as long as you remove the patella band, the knee joint will hurt when you run.
The role of knee brace:
The role of knee pads has three points, one is braking, two is insulation, three is health care. In basketball, it mainly plays the role of braking. The knee joint is the place where the upper and lower leg bones meet, there is a meniscus in the middle, there is patella in front, patella is stretched by two muscles, suspended before the meeting of the leg bones, very easy to slide, in normal life, because not limited by external force, there is no violent movement, so patella in the knee part can be a small range of activity.
So the choice of both to have their own needs to do support, for patella injury that must be the patella belt, a full range of the choice of knee brace, this time know how to choose it?