biomex wrist protection
Snowboarding’s all about pushing your limits. Level gloves with Biomex wrist protection can help you stay in one piece...
so you’ll be riding tomorrow instead of seeing the doctor. Level’s proven BIOMEX wrist protection system is the result of an extensive and on-going collaboration between snowboarders, the medical community, and engineers who understand bio-mechanics. BIOMEX research and development is based at the Klinic Gut, Center of Bone and Joint Surgery in St.Moritz, Switzerland, where Level Pros and physicians design and develop the most advanced wrist support technology on the market – THE BIOMEX PLUS. For beginners, the most frequent cause of a wrist fracture in snowboarding is a backwards fall. For more experienced riders it’s a a front and sideways fall. There are many wrist guards on the market, but based on their design, they don’t all deliver the same degree of safety performance. How do you get hurt?
During a fall your wrist is put in hyper extension ( fig.1) (the back of hand is pushed back towards the forearm). In additon to this hyper extension, the wrist often experiences two types of twisting forces technically referred to as pronation (fig.2) and radial adduction (fig.3). It’s the combination of these three forces that most often causes a wrist injury such as a wrist fracture.
Why is BIOMEX a better wrist guard?
BIOMEX ( fig.5) is the only wrist guard that keeps the wrist in an anatomically strong position, where muscle-forces and bone congruency combine to provide optimum stability without compromising the freedom to move. Most wrist guard systems deal with hyperextension alone, but
the BIOMEX system addresses all three of the forces that contribute
to wrist injury. Standard wrist guards frequently push
the fracture farther up the forearm ( fig.4).
The effectiveness of wrist guards was demonstrated in a 4 year study conducted
by the St.Moritz Orthopaedic Hospital, Klinic Gut The study involved
over 40,000 snowboard hours and more than 2400 participants. The
results of the study showed that the likelihood of a wrist injury is reduced
4.5 times using conventional wristgurads. With Biomex wristguards, the
risk of injury is reduced 7.5 times. Enough with all the technical crap! The BIOMEX system works...straight up! Whatever you are doing there is a glove for you to rock with it built right in, and it is like it is not even there and is not big and bulky like all the others in the market. You can get that added protection and piece of mind while hitting that 80 foot table in the park, the triple kink in the streets of SLC, working on your 1080 in the pipe, or just running the groomers with your Mom. Plain and simple this shit works!! |
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