Knee Bursitis
Anatomy of the Knee
Muscles, Tendons & Bones
Back View of Knee
Iliotibial Tract
Your Bursa is under strain when you stretch and exercise. The Bursa is a part of your knee joint that protects your tendons and ligaments when you move. Knee Bursitis is exactly what happens when your knee experiences too much stress.
The bursas in your knee joints are small thin, slippery pillows. They sit between different tissues that slide across or press against each other in your knee as you move or strain your muscles. Their purpose is to protect things like ligaments and tendons from wearing on each other, and from sliding across bone, when those tissues could get damaged or worn. When your bursa is damaged, it is because there was a moment or period where the load or the stretch of the movement was too much for it. You don't want to strain a bursa that is already damaged from too much strain.
Your Bursae (or bursas) are not connected to your muscles or your ligaments or your tendons. They sit between some of this tissue and other neighbouring tissue, but they are not directly attached. They are not supposed to be.
Your bursas are the slippery surfaces that your tendons slide over. They are cushions protecting your tendons and ligaments from being crushed against nearby bone. When you stretch or do exercise, you never stretch or exercise a bursa, but you may crush or abrade them a bit. When you stretch or do exercise, you can only stress your bursae; it does not help them heal.
To be more clear, if you have bursitis, it is because you have already over-worn or over-crushed your bursa. A little more wear and tear is not going to help it heal. It is quite the opposite. The more you wear and compress your bursa, the more you reinjure it and the longer it takes to heal.
If you want to speed your bursa recovery, you want to limit your activity as long as there's pain. If you are in a hurry to recover or have had a persistent injury, there are other proactive treatments available. Supplementary, proactive treatments are discussed below but they are medical treatments as opposed to exercise and stretching.
Exercise and stretching play a role in your recovery once your injury has stabilized. From the moment we get injured, we end up reducing our activity if only because of the pain. The pain is for a purpose, that's your body's way of telling you to stop doing what you're doing. When you drive through the pain of bursitis, you are just making your condition worse. You need to reduce your exercise and stretching to levels below where you feel any pain. This includes pain after, and not just during, activities.
As your bursa stabilizes and begins to heal, the pain will subside. As it does, you can increase your activity level gradually, as long as you are always staying below a level where you again feel pain. As you add in exercise, understand this is not doing anything to help your bursa heal, but it does help to reduce the amount of atrophy you experience in your related muscles and tendons. Atrophy means shrinking. When you increase exercise, your muscles grow. When you decrease exercise, your muscles shrink, or atrophy.
Most people don't want their muscles to weaken, so they try to add exercise to prevent it. Stretching increases range of motion and helps, moderately, to strengthen tendons. Again, neither exercise nor stretching does anything to heal your bursa and it just puts it at risk, so be careful as you increase activity so you don't set your healing process in reverse. With bursitis, it is highly recommended to go a bit overboard on the rest because, once your bursa has recovered, you can always start rebuilding the muscles and tendons after that point.
Repetitive exercise is something that is often misunderstood when it comes to bursitis. Many sources will tell you that repetitive strain is a cause of bursitis. That's not necessarily correct. It's important to know that repetitive activities are only a cause for concern if they are either under a significant load or at the extreme range of motion. If you are doing a light weight repetitive activity and it is no pushing your joint to the limits of its range, you can do that activity endlessly without worrying about damaging a healthy bursa. Our bodies are designed for that type of activity. As long as the load is light and you are not straining at the ends of your knee joint's range, (and there is no pain) you are safe to do as much as you want, all day long.
Bursitis is often caused because we stretched too far or exerted too much strain or both during one or very few motions. When that happens, you often remember the event. In that case, your bursa got damaged in the moment because it was just too much.
Other times, the bursitis seems to come out of nowhere and you notice it getting progressively worse over time. Those are cases where we are doing something that injures the knee bursa a little bit each time and the breaks in between aren't enough for the body to recover.
When it is intermittent, there is likely a repetitive and strenuous activity that you are doing at the root of the problem. It may be a different activity than when you first feel the pain, but because you are already injured, activities that would have otherwise been okay can further irritate your condition. If you can't think of what it might be, remember that it could be something strenuous repeatedly or, something that doesn't feel as stressful but is still stretching your knee joint at the end of range of motion.
You can know that even if simple activities are causing you pain now, once you fully heal the bursa you will be able to return to normal life - full of repetitive motion - without having to worry about the condition again.
To be clear, you exercise muscles, not your bursa. Exercise and stretching can be part of recovering from a knee injury, but it's the second part, not the first part. The first thing you need to do is rest your injury. Stop exercising, stop moving as much as possible - for a short time - to allow yourself to get over the initial injury. Depending on how bad the damage is, that rest could be a few days or a few weeks. Your pain will be your guide. If it still hurts, you need to keep piling on the rest.
A big reduction in activity over a long period of time though, causes your muscles to get smaller. This process is called 'muscle atrophy'. If the atrophy is significant you will want to do exercises later in the healing process to rebuild the lost muscle. This is often where physiotherapy comes in. Physiotherapy is for the second stage of the knee healing process, the rebuilding process. If you start knee exercises and knee stretches too early in the recovery process you are only going to prolong your condition or perhaps even make it worse!
If you're in a hurry to get past your injury and don't want to rely on rest alone, you can consider some of the proactive treatments discussed below. These treatments are helpful in addition to rest but are not a method for healing without some rest too.
Since early stretching and exercise will move you backward, what can you do to help yourself heal? There are some good options. As you are starting to realize, the bursitis in your knee is a case of repetitive healing and reinjury. You take a couple steps forward then you end up going a couple steps backward. The trick is to make the backwards steps as small as possible and the healing steps as large as possible.
The safest and most effective treatment solution for bursitis is rest, along with ColdCure® and BFST® treatments.
Try to rest your affected knee as much as possible. Consider using crutches to keep the weight off your injured leg.
Use the ColdCure® Knee Wrap to relieve your pain and internal inflammation. ColdCure® can also be used to treat any flare ups of pain that occur during the healing process. Most importantly, use the ColdCure after any significant activity to help your knee joint stabilize any new injury. This limits the size of the backward healing steps.
Use the BFST® Knee Wrap 3x to 4x per day to promote blood flow to your injured knee. This increase in blood flow works to heal your damaged tissue, accelerating the recovery process. BFST treatments make the steps forward - the healing steps - as large as possible. Keep doing BFST® treatments for several months after the pain is gone. The healing process takes much longer than most people think. Even once the pain has disappeared, your bursa may only be 20% or 30% healed. That doesn't mean you can't restart activities. You can increase your activity as the pain goes away, just increase it slowly and if the pain returns let up again.
For more information see our How your Body Heals page.
You can heal your Knee Bursitis. You don't have to wait for endless months in pain. You can heal much more quickly with the right treatment. For Knee Bursitis, blood flow is the most critical element in rapid recovery. To heal quickly you need an increase in blood flow and rest. Stop suffering for weeks with pain, without any improvement. Blood Flow Stimulation Therapy® (BFST®) gives your knee the blood flow it needs to heal quickly and completely.
The BFST® is an effective plug-in medical device that works to heal your Knee Bursitis with each treatment. Increasing blood flow works to actively heal your Knee Bursitis and is required in order to help your body heal completely. Unfortunately, an injured knee bursa at rest often has restricted blood flow, which in turn limits the body's ability to heal. Physical activity will promote blood flow, but all too often it also results in small but frequent re-injury, which extends your healing time. With a King Brand® BFST® Knee Wrap, blood flow can be stimulated in your injured knee while you are at rest. With improved blood flow and without physical activity and the risk of re-injury, you can recover from your Knee Bursitis at a surprisingly rapid rate.
To minimize pain and swelling in your knee, complete a ColdCure® treatment any time your pain level increases, or if you have been active. The ColdCure® Knee Wrap provides superior relief of the swelling and pain that comes with Knee Bursitis. ColdCure® Knee Wraps use cold and compression together, because cold and compression are the two things you need to eliminate pain and swelling as quickly and effectively as possible. Don't let the pain of your Knee Bursitis control you. Don't count the hours between pain relieving medications. If your knee hurts, just apply the ColdCure® Knee Wrap. The application of cold compression must be uniform and complete if it's going to work the best, and this is why the ColdCure® Knee Wrap has been custom designed to perfectly fit your knee. It perfectly targets the pain of your Knee Bursitis.
KB Support Tape™ is the perfect compliment to a quick recovery. Without restricting your range of motion KB Support Tape™ is powerful, even if you can't feel it. Perfectly protecting your Knee Bursa, KB Support Tape™ provides maximum protection so you don't have to deal with the constant re-injury cycle that quite often comes with Knee Bursitis. Your knee moves a lot through the day, and when you're injured you feel every little movement. You can't stop and wait for your Knee issue to go away. KB Support Tape™ is designed to protect your tendons, muscles and ligaments, taking some of the load off the bursa, and prevent further damage as you go through your day.
Our skin is soft and elastic and can stretch much more than the tissue underneath. When you apply KB Support Tape™ to your skin, it becomes a much more rigid surface than before; serving to limit how much the skin can stretch. KB Support Tape™ makes your skin a source of outside support to hold your tissue in place, reducing the load on the bursa and helping you avoid re-injury. That's why we call it armor for your injury.
Professional athletes always tape their injuries. You see it all the time. They know the benefits and they do what they need to, to heal as quickly as possible. KB Support Tape™ provides safe, high grade, optimal armor for your injury. It is made from the highest quality, hospital grade, biocompatible materials which most sports tapes are not. KB Tape is 100% KB Quality.
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I was diagnosed with knee bursitis 6 months ago, and I've been in excruciating pain for a long time. I was ready to pull my hair out. After 4 days, the pain is gone. I'm shocked that it's working this fast!
Customer: Peggy-Sue from South CarolinaBFST | ColdCure Mar 30, 2022
The King Brand Recovery Packs listed below include everything you need to heal as quickly as possible from your knee injury. As an added bonus, the Recovery Packs include a big discount that's been built into the package price compared to buying the items individually.
Three Piece Recovery Pack - Save BIG on the Essentials
The Three Piece Recovery Package deal has been created to include the three essential items that you need to heal your underlying knee injury.
Use the BFST® Knee Wrap to stimulate blood flow and provide nutrient rich oxygenated blood flow throughout your knee.
Use the ColdCure® Knee Wrap for superior cold compression to relieve even the most stubborn pain. The compression also gently squeezes the synovial fluid out of the bursa and back into the synovial cavity where it belongs. Pushing the synovial fluid back into the knee contributes further to helping the underlying condition heal.
Use the KB Tape® to protect your knee from further injury during times of activity. KB Tape® does this without risking further damage like happens with compression bands.
The Three Piece Recovery Pack includes one Knee BFST®, one Knee ColdCure® and one roll of KB Support Tape™. These are the three most important tools for your injured knee. They work together to heal you, protect you, and reduce the pain.
Four Piece "On The Go" Pack - The Biggest Savings
The Four Piece Recovery Pack is designed for people who are always on the go, and want the convenience of treatments anywhere and at any time. This bundle includes everything mentioned in our Three Piece Recovery Pack, and also includes our BFST® Battery Pack. With the BFST® Battery Pack, you don't need an outlet. You can take your treatments in the car, on the plane, or wherever your day takes you. With a full charge on your BFST® Battery Pack, you will have more than enough power to complete all of your treatments for 2 or 3 days between charges.
If you want to just stick with the most essential piece, the BFST® Knee Wrap is your best choice. This treatment wrap is used to treat both the front and sides of the knee at the same time. It doesn't matter where your injury is, the BFST® will bring blood flow through your entire knee. This Class II medical device actively stimulates healing through your entire knee to get you on the mend ASAP! As is, this device plugs into a wall outlet for 20 minute sessions of comfortable soothing Blood Flow Stimulation. To Stimulate Healing for a quick recovery, it is really all you need. Treat yourself in the morning and at night and before any strenuous activity and your healing process will happen as fast as possible.
If your biggest issue is the pain, then you definitely want the ColdCure® wrap. The ColdCure® Knee Wrap comes with 3 swappable cold packs that contain our unique XC RigiGel® formula. This isn't that 'blue goo' that you get from the drug store, no way. This is super gel. It holds tons more cold and stays cold much longer. Its ice that bends like rubber. It's amazing. The elasticized wrap holds the cold firmly in place against your injury sucking away the pain while it gently reduces swelling. If pain is your #1 concern, this is your #1 solution. With extra gel packs included you can treat the pain over and over again, never running out of ice.
KB Support Tape™ - Protection from Re-Injury
Too busy to be injured? Have to keep going? You want support, and you don't want to sacrifice your range of motion. Then KB Support Tape™ is your "must have". Constant re-injury is often the biggest reason your knee doesn't heal. It heals when at rest but when you get back to your daily routine, the injury gets worse. Athletes are always taped up. That's to prevent against re-injury while they are active. And KB Support Tape™ is the best for that purpose. Taping is very under-appreciated and very effective. If you have to keep moving, you have to tape.
The color is purely your sense of style. Our Pre-Cut Strips are super convenient, but the Continuous Roll gives you more control over how you tape your knee, and you get the most use out of a single roll.
Each order comes with one roll of KB Support Tape™ that is 16 feet long.
This Rechargeable Battery Pack is designed to make your BFST® Wrap completely mobile. It attaches anywhere on your wrap and lasts for a minimum of 10-20 treatments, depending on what level you're on. This means you can do your treatments wherever you go! You can do treatments in the car, at work, or while you're doing chores around the house, all without being plugged in. Use it wherever the day takes you.
The Battery Pack is easily charged using your BFST® power supply. The indicator lights on the Battery let you know when it needs to be charged again. It takes approximately 4 hours to achieve a full charge when the Battery is at 0%.
The Battery Pack makes it so much simpler to get in your 3-4 BFST® treatments per day, because you don't have to wait around while you're plugged into an outlet anymore.
*The Rechargeable Battery Pack is specifically designed to work with your BFST® Knee Wrap. Your BFST® Wrap comes with the components you need for treatments and to charge the Battery.
Are Other Parts Starting to Ache? - Our Vibe Massagers Relieve Stiff Muscle Pain
Knee Injuries often leads to other parts of your body aching as you attempt to compensate for your sore knee.
King Brand Vibe massagers are professional grade units that can unknot tense tissue and free you from the pain and stiffness.
There's no doubt you know the pain of muscle tension.
Lots of people feel it in their feet, their hips, and even their back.
Muscle pain can ruin your day and it can ruin your sleep.
If you haven't used a professional massager before, it's time you try one.
You'll love it.
20 minutes of targeted massage on any part of your body leaves you feeling so relaxed. You can really feel the difference.
Long after your injury is forgotten you'll still be using your massager. It will become your new best friend.
The Vibe Mini Max here is our most powerful and effective hand held massager.
It gives excellent results at an affordable price.
The Accessory Strap can provide a more customized fit for the BFST® and ColdCure® Wraps. The strap provides up to 11+ inches of extension so you can use as much or as little extension as you need.
The BFST® and ColdCure® Knee Wraps extend 26 inches around your knee. We all come in different shapes and sizes and this Accessory Strap will allow you to increase the size of your Wrap to a maximum of 37 inches achieve the best possible fit and treatment. Just attach one end of the Accessory Strap to the side of the wrap that has the Velcro patch, and wrap it around until it meets the BFST® or ColdCure® Wrap on the other side. Adjust to your desired fit.
Physiotherapists and doctors recommend stretching and strengthening exercises because it helps to promote blood flow through your injured knee. But, it can be harmful if stretching and exercises are started too early. Your injury first needs to stabilize, and in order to stabilize the injury you need to rest. As you know, when you rest, your blood flow slows down which doesn't help your injury heal which is why BFST is so important early on.
At the beginning of your injury, even before the injury has had a chance to stabilize, long before you start physio, the ColdCure® Wraps will help keep the pain and swelling under control. The BFST® will increase blood flow to get the healing process started. Because you don`t have to move to use them, the King Brand BFST® and ColdCure® Wraps can be started any time. The earlier the better!
Don`t start Physical Therapy until your condition has stabilized. When you start, if you feel pain during or after PT speak up! PT is not supposed to hurt and if it does you may be reinjuring your knee.
Use your ColdCure® wrap after any heavy activity and after PT. Use the BFST® before PT and before any other heavy activity. The KB Support Tape™ should be applied every morning and worn all day long to help prevent re-injury, including to PT. For many people, King Brand® products, used in the comfort of your own home, are all that is required without having to attend and pay for Physical Therapy appointments.
BFST® stimulates blood flow through the Knee while you are at rest. This is very important because while at rest, an unaided and inflamed bursa can otherwise have seriously impeded blood flow. It is the oxygen and nutrient-rich blood that enables the healing process, so adequate blood flow is required for your underlying knee injury to heal properly and quickly.
BFST® treatments feel great. They don't vibrate or pulse, so they're very pleasant and relaxing. People often notice a slight warming sensation and some people experience a slight tingling sensation from the increase in blood flow. For optimal results, do 3-4 BFST® treatments per day. You should notice a very slight warming sensation on each level. The treatments should never feel hot or uncomfortable. The effects of each 20 minute BFST treatment will last for up to four hours, so it's best for you to spread your treatments out over the course of the day. More power doesn`t mean more blood flow. The goal isn't to move up the levels as quickly as possible, but to condition your circulation for increased blood flow. Staying on the lowest level possible where you feel warmth is the best way to speed up the healing process. An ideal treatment regimen would be one treatment first thing in the morning, another treatment in the afternoon, a treatment in the evening, and the last treatment of the day right before bed.
When your BFST® treatment is over, simply unplug the controller, remove the Knee Wrap and enjoy the benefit of increased circulation to speed up your healing for the next four hours.
The BFST treatments are very comfortable and soothing. The BFST® uses Electromagnetic Energy to stimulate blood flow underneath the surface of the skin. It is warm, but not hot. It does not vibrate like a massager (You shouldn't use a massager on soft tissue injuries). It does not cause your muscles to tense in jolts like with a TENS machine (TENS machines are very bad for soft tissue injuries, they are for nerve issues). The BFST® isn't supposed to do either of those things. Rather, it is soothing and sometimes gives you a gentle tingling sensation in the treatment area. BFST treatments are very pleasant and enjoyable.
Don't be mistaken, while the treatments feel gentle, they are still very powerful. Think about an X-RAY or an MRI. Even though you don't feel the energy during those procedures, a lot of energy is definitely going deep into your body. If you put your ear close to the BFST when it is on, you can actually hear it going through the cycles. It's not loud, but you can hear it if you listen. It isn't just delivering one energy level at one frequency. Just like an MRI machine, the BFST buzzes and hums in a variety of ways over the course of treatment. It is sometimes louder and sometimes more quiet as it goes through the treatment cycle. It sounds just like a mini-MRI machine. Over the 20 minute treatment period it goes through a treatment cycle to deliver the most energy in the most effective way. It is designed to help give you the fastest healing time possible, in the comfort of your home.
During each BFST® treatment you will only feel a mild warming sensation. If it feels hot, you are using it on too high of a setting. Over time, after several treatment sessions, the treatments will feel like they are getting less and less warm. This is your body responding to the BFST® treatments. Your increased tissue health can be noticed through the increase in your blood flow capacity. The more BFST treatments you do, the less warmth you're going to feel. This is a good sign. Your tissue is becoming more healthy. Your body is getting stronger. This means that your circulation through your injury is improving, and your injury is improving. When the feeling of warmth during a treatment is almost all gone, this is the signal that it is time to move up to the next level. People usually move up to the second level after a few weeks of treatment.
Avoid the dangers of pain killers. King Brand ColdCure® Knee Wraps are much safer and more effective than pain killers. ColdCure® Wraps start relieving the pain caused from Knee Bursitis within minutes. There's no need to wait for 20 minutes for your pain killers to start working. There's no need to wait 4 hours between treatments! ColdCure® Wraps are specifically designed for your knee. It doesn't matter what size your knee is, this is a custom wrap specifically designed to fit a large range of knee sizes. It effectively reduces the swelling in your knee, and you can use it as much as you like. If there's pain, apply your ColdCure® Wrap!
Knee Bursitis can be so painful and debilitating that it causes us to rely heavily on pain killers. But honestly, pain killers are not your friend. It is understandable that you are looking for the relief from pain. Remember, though, the pain is there to stop us from hurting the area further. The pain is your body saying, "please stop doing that!" While pain killers are a welcome relief, they can be dangerous to take when you're active. Pain killers can completely block the pain signal, making you unaware of any further damage you could be doing to your knee. Pain killers should be restricted to times of rest.
When it comes to pain killers, some products are much more effective than others. Some can actually help your injury when used correctly and others will only make it worse. According to the National Institute of Health, our own government body tells us that Acetaminophen overdose is the leading cause for calls to Poison Control Centers (>100,000/year) and accounts for more than 56,000 emergency room visits. And acetaminophen (Tylenol) won't help you get better one bit. It only puts you at risk of more injury. If you want help choosing the right pain killer and want advice on how to use it more safely and correctly, give us a call at 1-844-672-9440. We will give you excellent guidance. No charge. No purchase necessary.
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Customer: John from Hawaii ColdCure & BFST Sept 23, 2022
For dealing with the swelling and pain associated with a Knee Injury, nothing works better than cold compression.
ColdCure® technology was developed specifically to address the need for a cold compression device that does not freeze the skin or underlying tissue. ColdCure® gel packs pose no threat of cold burns or permanent tissue damage caused by freezing of the skin. This makes them much safer to use than other products that use ice. ColdCure® gel packs are completely safe to use for extended treatment durations, meaning faster relief of pain and swelling. Our ColdCure® technology is a huge improvement on regular ice packs.
The ColdCure® Back and Knee Wrap comes with 3 swappable cold packs that contain our unique XC RigiGel® formula. XC RigiGel® is firm yet flexible, unlike other gel formulas that are mushy and watery. This means the gel holds its form and doesn't move around to other areas of the pack. It stays in place over your injury, right where you need it. The gel won't move, even when put under heavy pressure for long periods of time.
Keep the gel packs in the freezer. The gel packs are inserted inside the wrap one at a time so you can always have two charging in the freezer to keep your therapy going. Do your ColdCure® treatments in 20 minute intervals. Use them whenever you want to relieve pain. Also use them after any heavy knee activity even if you don't feel pain at the time.
KB Support Tape™ provides lightweight, comfortable compression to help you throughout the day. It also helps to prevent re-injury by giving your healing tissue targeted support and protection, without restricting your range of motion.
KB Support Tape™ comes in 2 different sizes: 2 inch wide and 3 inch wide. We recommend the 2 inch wide tape for Knee Bursitis. The 2 inch wide tape is 16 feet long and comes in either Blue, Beige or Black. There is no functional difference between the colors, they just allow you to express your personal style.
The tape comes in a continuous roll that you cut using scissors into lengths for your unique injury. Rolls with strips precut into lengths of 8" are also available. Every injury is different and you will adjust how you tape your injury over time based on what works for you. In most cases you will tape in an 'X' or 'T' formation, using two strips of tape, where 'X' marks the spot over the most painful area.
Applying the KB Support Tape is easy. The tape stretches along its length. Stretch the pieces about half their stretch when you apply each piece. To apply the KB Support Tape to your knee, you will need 2 pieces of tape; both about 4" long. One piece of tape will be applied vertically down your leg. The other piece will go across the first piece as shown. Wherever you are feeling the pain in your knee is the spot that should be covered with the tape, with the tape crossing over the most painful spot.
When you are done, the two pieces of tape will cross over where you're feeling the most pain. Over time, try modifying your unique taping method to ensure that you're getting the best support. You'll know the best taping style because you'll really notice how much less your knee hurts through the day when you have it right. Remember to listen to what your body is telling you. Use the pain as a guide. If you feel the pain in a specific area of your knee, apply the tape to that area.
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John from Texas BFST | ColdCure Aug 06, 2022
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The products work incredibly well. The Treatment Advisors are here to support you. People who've used King Brand products before, always come back to us if they have another injury. They search for us by name because they remember how well we helped with their last injury. We have many, many customers who were so happy with their experience that they come back over and over again to buy products for family and friends. People recommend King Brand and that's the best testimony of all.
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BFST® + ColdCure® Treatments
BFST® for Rapid Healing
ColdCure® for Pain & Swelling
KB Tape™ to Prevent Re-Injury
Combination Therapy means using ColdCure® and BFST® in combination by alternating treatments, as well as using KB Support Tape™. Combination Therapy is much more effective than using just ColdCure® or just BFST®. This is because you're getting both the pain and swelling relief of ColdCure®, the healing benefits of BFST®, as well as the protection and re-injury prevention of KB Support Tape™. The combination results in the absolute best treatment for your Knee Injury.
A very important part of treating your knee injury is to use the ColdCure® Wrap. This will help to help reduce not only the visible swelling you may see on the surface, but also the inflammation you may have and cannot see, deep down in the soft tissue. You can use it several times a day. Use it anytime you want pain relief and after any significant exercise of your knee even if it doesn't hurt afterward.
You should rely more heavily on ColdCure® treatments immediately after exercise because the inflammation will continue to re-develop when you are active. Being aggressive with back to back cold treatments after exercise will give your body a chance to get ahead of the inflammation, and prepare your knee for the blood flow that's needed to help heal quickly.
Introduce your BFST® treatments at your less active times of day and before significant exercise. Keep your swelling and inflammation under control with ColdCure® but do not use ColdCure® and BFST® close together. Use BFST® in the morning, before bed, and after longer periods of resting your injury. When doing your treatments, you should only feel a slight warming sensation. At any time if it feels HOT or uncomfortable, discontinue use as you still have too much inflammation and swelling to complete a treatment.
Each BFST® Treatment will last only 20 minutes, but the increase in blood flow will last up to four hours. Ideally your treatments should be spaced out throughout the day, so you can promote good blood flow all day long. If you can't do 3-4 treatments a day, your two most important treatments are first thing in the morning, and right before you go to bed. This will ensure that you have a great start to your day and you can rest well at night.
If you are planning on being active throughout the day, complete a BFST® treatment before any type of physical activity. It can be as simple as mopping the floor. Always assess how you are feeling after your activity, as there's a chance you may need to apply your ColdCure® to treat any new inflammation generated during your activities.
The goal with your BFST® Treatments is not to increase on the levels as quickly as possible, but to condition your circulatory system to allow for the much needed increased blood flow. Staying on the lowest level to where you feel any warmth - remember it's just a slight warmth - will be the most effective way to start healing your knee injury. When can you move up to the next level? You can move up in levels when you feel barely any warmth from the wrap at all. This means that you've successfully conditioned your circulation and you're ready to move up. Some people can move up in a few weeks, some people it takes a lot longer. It just depends on how well your body adjusts to the increase in blood flow.
Do a ColdCure® treatment any time you experience a pain flare-up or after any physical activity to prevent further injury and reduce swelling and inflammation. Remember, staying on top of your inflammation will allow you to complete more BFST® treatments throughout the day.
Wait 30-45 minutes after your ColdCure® treatment before doing another BFST® treatment. This time will allow the blood flow and body temperature to regulate again. Refrain from using ColdCure® within the 4 hours following your 20 minute BFST® treatment, unless you notice an increase in pain during your BFST® Treatment.
ColdCure® treatments will slow down the blood flow, which isn't ideal, but sometimes necessary to relieve the swelling and inflammation generated. The BFST® will increase your blood flow which is important for faster healing.
KB Support Tape™ is very important to help with your injury recovery. As you move throughout the day, your skin and your tendons move with you. Using the KB Support Tape™ over your injury will make your skin less flexible - therefore protecting your injury - without restricting your range of motion. KB Support Tape™ can be used at the same time as your BFST® and ColdCure® Treatments without any issues. Try to have your first BFST® treatment of the day without the KB Support Tape™ applied. After your BFST® treatment has been completed, then apply the tape. Removing the tape before the last BFST® treatment of the day will provide the best results.
When you're recovering from knee injuries, the pain ends long before you've finished healing. In fact, the pain is usually gone once your tissue is about 20-30% healed. The entire healing process is very complex, and takes much longer than most people realize. (You can click here for the full story on tissue healing). The key thing to remember is that long after the pain stops, your underlying injury is still healing. This means you need to keep doing BFST® treatments in order to complete the healing process. Doing regular BFST® treatments for several months after the pain is gone is extremely beneficial. Do a BFST® treatment prior to any physical activity. This will act as a warm up for your circulatory system. You should also continue to use KB Support Tape™ to help protect the knee from re-injury.
BFST® Wraps are FDA Registered Class II medical devices. This means they have been designed, manufactured and tested to the highest safety standards in the industry. This is to keep you safe and ensure effective treatments. BFST® Wraps comply with hundreds of pages of regulations and standards. The FDA holds manufacturers of medical grade products like the BFST® Wrap accountable, unlike manufacturers of lower quality, non-FDA Registered consumer goods.
The Blood Flow Stimulation Therapy® (BFST®) Wrap is designed to promote blood flow in injured tissue below the dermal (fat and skin) layer. Utilizing our proprietary Energy Web®, specially controlled and incredibly safe levels of EMR energy envelop your entire knee and stimulate blood flow in the soft tissue deep beneath the skin. The resulting stimulation brings oxygen and nutrient-rich blood to the injured area, accelerating the healing process.
BFST® Wraps come with a 3 level power controller. Everyone should start their treatments on Level 1 and work their way through the levels gradually as their injury heals. Proceeding immediately to Level 2 or 3 will not speed up the healing process. You need to condition the body first.
During your first treatments on Level 1, the area around your bursitis will feel quite warm. This is because at first, your circulation is poor. The more treatments you do, the less warming sensation you will feel. This is good. As the warmth lessens from treatment to treatment, this is an indication that the circulation in your knee is improving. Better circulation means blood flow all the time, not just during treatments. This is the goal. When you feel very little warmth during a treatment, it is time to move up to the next power level. Don't rush it though, more heat doesn't mean better treatment. In fact, less heat means better treatment, so take your time moving up in levels.
The Energy Web® of the BFST® Knee Wrap is enclosed in a soft, comfortable neoprene wrap. The wrap shapes the Energy Web® to conform to the shape of your knee, ensuring there is an even distribution of energy over the entire area. The wrap is easily adjustable using the attached Velcro® straps. After treatment, the wrap does not need to be removed. The straps can be further tightened to provide snug support and protection for your knee. The device easily disconnects at the wrap from the power supply and controller so you are free to move about your home when not receiving treatment, while still wearing the wrap for support and comfort.
It does work, its helping my knee immensely. I'm using the BFST the first thing in the morning, around noon , and then in the evening. Its really helping my knee. It works so well, I even brought this up to my Physical Therapist who has been working with me.
Mark from MinnesotaBFST Knee | ColdCure Knee May 02, 2023
What sets KB Support Tape™ apart from the rest? It's not athletic tape, it's medical tape. This means our Tape is manufactured to ISO 10993 standards, which ensures that our Tape is made from extremely safe, biocompatible materials. Our Tape is actually made from materials that are safer than most baby products, including toys, clothes and diapers. Don't let the big brand tapes fool you. Most of them are made from toxic materials, because there are no standards for athletic tape. Some big brand athletic tape glues even contain carcinogenic ingredients. At King Brand®, your health and safety is of utmost importance, which is why KB Support Tape™ is manufactured to such high standards.
ColdCure® Wraps are FDA Registered Class I medical devices. They exceed all government and health agency regulatory requirements for cold therapy, specifically for use in treating soft tissue injuries. When applied, the ColdCure® Wrap immediately reduces the risk of further damage from excessive swelling. Doctors and Therapists agree that controlling swelling is a fundamental part of reducing long-term permanent damage resulting from soft tissue injuries.
All of our ColdCure® Wraps are entirely made of very soft, stretchy material. They come with 3 swappable cold packs that contain our unique XC RigiGel® formula. The gel packs are inserted inside the wrap one at a time, so you can have the other two charging in the freezer to keep your therapy going. Do your ColdCure® treatments in 20 minute intervals throughout the day, or as long as you need the relief.
Many people follow the RICE - Rest, Ice, Compression & Elevation - formula when treating a soft tissue injury. While RICE is a popular method, the reality is that ice can actually freeze your skin and numb your nerves, causing 'cold burns' and even permanent damage to your skin and underlying tissue. The proper solution is RCCE® - Rest, Cold, Compression & Elevation. We don't want to apply ice - we want to apply cold that is just above freezing. Yes, you want cold - and lots of it - but not so cold that it is below the freezing point of water.
ColdCure® RigiGel® packs are much safer and more effective than ice and products that use mushy blue gel.
Why?
Because RigiGel® packs are like ice, but they stay at 32°F, the exact and best temperature for pain relief.
While they may start at about -4°F straight from the freezer, after a few minutes they will go to 32°F and stay at 32°F for a long time.
Not all freezers are the same so we build extra safety into the packs. If you find the gel pack too stiff from the freezer to use in the wrap, that's because it came out too cold to be safe. Leave it out for 1-2 minutes though and it's good to go! Then it will bend enough for inserting it inside the wrap. When the pack is soft enough to bend, it's ready to use for treatment. So simple and so safe!
More Gel = More Cold. XC Gel® packs contain 3x more gel by weight than ordinary gel packs. This means they cover a much larger area. When stored in the freezer, XC Gel® packs have 10x more cooling power than other products. So, you get longer treatments without having to recharge the gel packs as often. It also means faster relief of pain and swelling. Bigger gel packs with more gel inside, plus superior cooling power, ultimately means a better, more effective treatment.
Regular gel packs are notorious for having hot and cold spots. When cold pressure is applied to an injury, the gel starts to warm up in that specific spot faster than the rest of the pack. Our XC RigiGel® packs distribute cold energy evenly throughout the entire gel pack. The energy in our gel packs is transferred from the cold spots to the warm spots much more effectively. This is a valuable improvement as your injury will receive a consistent cold treatment, every time. The temperature balancing power of this gel formula is unmatched.
XC RigiGel® is firm yet flexible. We describe it as 'gel that bends like rubber' because even though it bends and molds to the shape of your body, it always stays in place. Unlike gooey blue gel that easily gets pushed to other areas of the wrap, our gel won't flow away from your injured spot. Even under very extreme pressure, it stays soft, but it won't budge. No matter how much pressure, the gel always stays in place over your injured spot. RigiGel conforms to the painful area for an even, consistent treatment every time.
ColdCure® Knee gel packs are specially designed to conform to your knee to provide your injury with an even distribution of cooling power. Every one of our ColdCure® Wraps comes with gel packs that are custom designed for the body part to ensure the best fit and treatment possible. We don't just use one generic gel pack shape. Every body part is uniquely shaped, which is why all of our gel packs are uniquely shaped too. If you want a product that is 100% designed to treat knee bursitis, you need the ColdCure® Knee Wrap.
XC RigiGel® packs have 2 different colored sides: a white side and a gold side. Both sides will give you all the same benefits that our high performance XC RigiGel® formula has to offer. The gel packs can be inserted inside the wrap with the white side facing towards your skin and knee or away from your skin and knee since they are not side specific.
The illustration shows the Cold Treatment effective coverage area. The coverage wraps far around the sides of the knee, and extends up equally both above and below the knee cap.
Do you want to find out how well you are recovering from your Knee Bursitis? Track your Symptoms and Treatments using our Symptom Tracker. This easy to use tool provides a method for you to log lots of information about what you're experiencing, how you are managing your condition, and how your life is impacting your condition. Our specialists can review the information and provide you valuable feedback on a routine to minimize re-injury and shorten your recovery time.
Think about all the times you've wished you had asked your doctor or therapist about something you forgot to mention. When you see them, they rush you and you're back out the door quickly, and you're kicking yourself for not getting your questions answered. Have questions? At any time, you can request a King Brand Trained Treatment Advisor to reach out to you to answer any questions you might have about your treatments, recovery, symptoms and much more. You can record all the notes and information you want in symptom tracker so the specialist always has all the information possible to give you the best advice. This is much better care than you get with the usual medical network. All this is free as a King Brand customer.
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