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Basketball Dynamic Elbow & Shoulder Support
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Proven Arm Support for Basketball Players

The Kinetic Arm K2 Sleeve is the world’s first and only dual-joint support for the shoulder and elbow that allows unrestricted movement. Its scientifically proven, multi-patented MuscleWeb® design provides activated support to help reduce dynamic arm stress, minimizing fatigue and pain that can lead to overuse injuries. Ideal for shooting, passing, and rebounding, it helps reduce strain on the joints, muscles, and ligaments, enabling basketball players to train harder, recover faster, and play longer. Whether in practice or game, the Kinetic Arm helps players optimize performance and stay pain-free, so they can stay on the court doing what they love.

Impressive Solution

Dynamic Support

Basketball players often experience overuse injuries in the shoulder and elbow due to repetitive movements like shooting, passing, and rebounding. These can lead to conditions such as tendinitis, rotator cuff strains, labral tears, epicondylitis, and shoulder impingement. The Kinetic Arm offers adaptive, responsive support during play, allowing full mobility and range of motion while providing essential stability to the elbow and shoulder. This support helps optimize mechanics and reduce arm strain, helping to minimize fatigue, pain, and the risk of injuries.

UMATCHED SUPPORT
ELBOW & SHOULDER

Dual joint support for both the elbow and shoulder is essential for basketball players because these joints work together to execute almost every arm movement on the court, from shooting and passing to rebounding and blocking shots. The shoulder is responsible for generating power and range of motion, while the elbow helps control precision and stability. When both joints are supported together, it ensures better coordination between the upper arm and the shoulder, preventing excessive strain on either joint. This integrated support helps reduce the risk of overuse injuries such as tendinitis, rotator cuff strains, and tennis elbow, while allowing players to maintain full range of motion and optimize performance. By providing stabilization to both the shoulder and elbow, the Kinetic Arm helps players move efficiently, reducing stress and fatigue, so they can stay on the court longer and perform at their best.

Intelligent Design
HOW IT WORKS

The Kinetic Arm K2 Sleeve features a multi-patented MuscleWeb® design that delivers dynamic arm support for basketball players by reinforcing muscles, ligaments, and joints. This promotes safer, more efficient movement while reducing arm stress. With strategically placed polymers, it provides targeted, multi-directional support to both the elbow and shoulder, stabilizing these joints during actions like shooting, passing, and rebounding. By offloading strain from key areas, the K2 Sleeve helps maintain optimal mechanics, reduces fatigue and injury risk, and preserves full range of motion, enabling players to perform at their best and stay on the court.

Multi-Directional Supportive Design

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Front Shoulder Support

The MuscleWeb® technology in the Kinetic Arm K2 Sleeve uses embedded polymers to provide functional support to the shoulder, stabilizing the joint during dynamic basketball arm movements. This dynamic support helps offload stress from the musculoskeletal system, preventing the arm from lagging behind the trunk's rotation during fast, high-intensity actions like shooting, passing, and rebounding. By alleviating strain on key structures like the biceps tendon, labrum, and rotator cuff, the sleeve reduces the risk of common overuse injuries, offering essential protection during the repetitive, high-impact motions that basketball players perform throughout practice and games.

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Full Elbow Support

The MuscleWeb® technology in the Kinetic Arm K2 Sleeve uses embedded polymers to provide targeted support to the elbow, stabilizing the joint during dynamic basketball movements. This dynamic support helps to offload stress from the muscles and tendons, preventing excessive torque and strain on the elbow during high-stress actions like shooting, passing, and rebounding. By alleviating strain on the tendons and ligaments around the elbow, such as the common flexor and extensor tendons, the sleeve helps reduce the risk of overuse injuries like tennis elbow (epicondylitis) and tendinitis. This protection allows basketball players to perform at their best while minimizing pain and risk of injury.

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BACK SHOULDER Support

The Kinetic Arm K2 Sleeve provides critical posterior shoulder support by stabilizing the rotator cuff and scapular muscles during dynamic arm movements in basketball. Using the MuscleWeb® technology, strategically embedded polymers reinforce the back of the shoulder, particularly during high-stress actions like shooting, rebounding, and passing. This external support reduces strain on the rotator cuff and scapular muscles, especially during the deceleration phase of arm motions, helping to absorb stress and minimize the risk of overuse injuries such as rotator cuff strains and posterior shoulder impingement. This allows for safer, more controlled arm movements, enabling basketball players to perform at their best while reducing fatigue and injury risk.

NOTHING ELSE LIKE THE KINETIC ARM

Until now, no product has provided unrestricted elbow and shoulder support while scientifically reducing dynamic arm stress that leads to fatigue, pain, and overuse injuries.

The Kinetic Arm K2 BioKinetic® Sleeve is unique in offering combined stabilization for both the elbow and shoulder, ensuring full, natural movement while preventing excessive strain during high-intensity arm movements. Unlike traditional arm sleeves, the K2 Sleeve uses its multi-patented MuscleWeb® Design to dynamically support muscles, ligaments, and joints. This innovative design promotes safer ranges of motion, minimizes arm stress, and helps athletes maintain peak performance, reducing the risk of injury and enhancing overall efficiency.

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DATA & RESEARCH
TESTED & PROVEN

With over 10 years of research and testing, the Kinetic Arm dynamic arm stabilizers are backed by data and published research demonstrating their effectiveness in offloading dynamic arm stress. All studies have undergone validation by research and medical professionals.

PROVEN BENEFITS

Reduce Arm stress

The Kinetic Arm helps reduce arm stress for basketball players by providing dynamic support to both the elbow and shoulder without restricting natural movement. Using its multi-patented MuscleWeb® Design, the K2 Sleeve reinforces key muscles, ligaments, and joints, stabilizing the arm during high-intensity actions like shooting, passing, and rebounding. This support helps to offload dynamic stress, reducing strain on the shoulder and elbow, which can otherwise lead to fatigue, pain, and overuse injuries.

Optimized Performance

The Kinetic Arm optimizes performance for basketball players by helping to optimize arm mechanics by promoting safer, more efficient movement patterns. While allowing full range of motion, it helps guide smoother and more controlled arm movements, reinforcing proper motion paths. This also helps reduces strain and compensatory movements, allowing players to maintain and improve accuracy, consistency, and overall performance during high-intensity actions on the court.

Recovery & Prevention

Wearing the Kinetic Arm helps basketball players recover faster by reducing fatigue and stress on the elbow and shoulder after high-intensity movements like shooting, passing, dribbling, and rebounding. By providing targeted support to these joints, the sleeve helps minimize strain and prevents overuse, allowing muscles and tendons to recover more effectively. This proactive dynamic support helps reduce soreness and the risk of injury, helping players get back on the court quicker and perform at their best during both practice and games.

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DOCTOR RECOMMENDED

★★★★★

"I have been a Physical Therapist for over 20 years. I worked with a shoulder specialist, have been OCS certified since 2010, am a Champion Performance Specialist, and am a Certified Arm Care Specialist.  More importantly, I am a father whose son plays high school and travel baseball. My son had an arm issue.  We have used the kinetic arm essentially for every throw he has made for the last 2 years. It has been a game changer for my son and essentially all my patients in the last 2 years that have had arm issues."

Dr. Shannon Loy
PT, MPT, OCS Clinical Director Advance Rehabilitation
★★★★★

"The data shows that the Kinetic Arm could definitely have an impact in reducing throwing overuse injuries."

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Dr. Lawrence Lemak
Co-Founder of American Sports Medicine Institute & The National Center for Sports Safety
★★★★★

"The Kinetic Arm definitely shows promising uses for not only rehab professionals but also for performance coaches. I foresee that this prototype can usher in a new era of health and performance for throwing athletes."

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Dr. Ryan Balmes
Board Certified clinical specialist in orthopedics and sports physical therapy.
★★★★★

"The Kinetic arm has been a game changer in my care plans for players returning from surgery or injury along with the athletes who are experiencing medial elbow discomfort with valgus stress or shoulder problems. I highly recommend this product!"

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Dr. Alex Beebe
PT, DPT, OCS, CSVS, CMT
★★★★★

"I knew this was a must for many throwing athletes struggling with anything from labrum/rotator cuff injuries to UCL strains. I have now used it with a variety of my athletes and have seen it reduce pain with throwing from a 7/10 to a 0/10 by just simply putting it on. The Kinetic Arms' ability to offload stress while allowing proper biomechanics and full ROM, the process can be streamlined with better outcomes. Highly recommend 10/10!"

Dr. Nathan Teter APEX Physical Therapy Review on Kinetic Arm
Dr. Nathan Teter
PT, DPT & Owner of Apex PT
★★★★★

"The Kinetic Arm by all means can be considered a potential and literal game changer for the overhead athlete. The Kinetic Arm has the capacity to reduce harmful stress on the elbow and its non contractile structures, while at the same time allowing for sustained duration and intensity for practices sessions with overhead athletes. The applicability of this product may extend to various sports including baseball, football, tennis, and track and field athletes to ensure the long term health of my overhead athletic patient or client."

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Dr. Tyler Wallace
PT, DPT, CSCS
★★★★★

"Not only does the data show a decrease in elbow torque, the Kinetic Arm has the potential to be a great tool for performance and rehabilitation for throwing athletes. After testing it myself and with a few of our golfers, it helped alleviate elbow torque and stress off the trail arm. I'm excited to see the growth of the Kinetic Arm in multiple sports."

Dr. Edward Kim
 PT, MTC, TPI0-M3 
★★★★★

"Clinicians that recommend using the Kinetic Arm will get their athletes back into play sooner and reduce the risk of re-injury. I highly recommend using this as an easy solution for injury prevention."

Dr. Jason Weeks
DC, owner of Marietta Physical Rehab and Team Physician of X3 Sports
★★★★★

"Kinetic Arm has been instrumental in my rehab protocol for Ulnar Collateral Ligament reconstructions. We have also had great success in unloading our pitchers. It's a new frontier."

Dr. Rick Lehman
MD, Orthopedic Surgeon and Medical Director of Webster Surgery Center and the U.S. Center for Sports Medicine
Worn in Practice & Game
Youth to Pro

The Kinetic Arm K2 Sleeve is engineered for both practice and game use, offering versatile support for athletes across a wide range of sports, including basketball, football, baseball, tennis, and more. Its sleek, low-profile design wraps comfortably around the elbow and shoulder, providing essential support without limiting movement. Made from lightweight, breathable fabric, it allows players to move freely and naturally, ensuring optimal performance. Worn by athletes from youth to professional levels, the K2 Sleeve has become an indispensable part of training and game-day routines, trusted by top-tier players and medical professionals alike. For players looking to protect, optimize performance, recover faster, and stay pain-free, the K2 Sleeve helps them maintain peak performance while minimizing risks and preventing setbacks.

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