About Physioroom

Physioroom sells sports injury supports, braces, strapping, rehabilitation equipment and physiotherapy supplies, and a Physioroom discount code is often spent on consumables such as tape and cohesive bandage alongside one support. The important thing about this catalogue is what it cannot do: a brace manages a joint, it does not diagnose what is wrong with it.

A support is not a diagnosis

Braces and supports have a real role in confidence, compression and limiting a movement that hurts, and they are not a substitute for finding out what the injury is. Pain that came from a single incident, a joint that gave way, a knee that locks, numbness, or swelling that does not settle over a few days is a reason to see a physiotherapist or your GP rather than to buy a brace. Wearing a support over an undiagnosed problem can let you load a joint that should be resting.

Sizing is by measurement, not by clothing size

Supports are sized by the circumference of the joint or the limb, measured at the point the instructions specify, usually a stated distance above or below the knee or around the widest part of the calf. Your shirt size tells you nothing here. Measure with a tape over bare skin, and if you fall between sizes on a compression garment, the tighter one is not automatically better, since too much compression causes pins and needles.

Hinged, wraparound and sleeve are different jobs

A simple elastic sleeve gives warmth and compression. A wraparound with straps lets you adjust the tension and get it on a swollen joint. A hinged brace limits sideways movement and is the one prescribed after specific ligament injuries. Buying up the range does not help if the job is just compression.

Ice, heat and tape

Cold is generally for the first day or two after an acute injury and heat for stiffness later; neither is applied directly to skin, and twenty minutes is long enough. Rigid tape restricts movement, elastic kinesiology tape does not, and neither will hold on skin that has moisturiser on it.

Using a Physioroom discount code

Apply the code in the basket and check the total before paying. Codes commonly exclude clearance lines, large equipment that carries its own carriage and gift vouchers, and carry a minimum spend. Supports worn against the skin cannot be returned once used, on hygiene grounds.