Knee wraps and knee health.

I own a couple of non lifting related injuries that bother my squat from time to time, meniscus right knee, medial collateral left. I normally train in SBD’s, but lately have been toying with the idea of grabbing some wraps and seeing how they feel. Not the exoskeletal like, pulled tight as a tourniquet ones that have you walking around like a mummy, just some light duty jobs to add a bit of elastic support. I’m certainly not trying to circumvent the injurys, nor lift more weight with them - directly anyway.

What I don’t want to do is potentially aggravate / damage anything, and there seems to be many conflicting opinions on this in regard to wrapping, though plenty of folk seem to have zero issues wrapping their wrists I notice, whatever thats worth.

What do you Dr’s think?

Honestly, there is no definitive research on this, especially as it relates to any injury risk. That being said, I’m more than comfortable taking a stance that wrapping your knees is not going to increase any risk of injury, it’s just not likely to help either. I would fall in the “if it feels good and you want to, do it” camp on this one.

‘there is no definitive research on this, especially as it relates to any injury risk’ “if it feels good and you want to, do it”

Ha…I like it.

Thanks Derek.