Flexmeter Wristguard Single

Flexmeter single snowboard wrist guard

Flexmeter single small wrist guards 1 dorsal protection dorsal, the first effective wrist protection for snowboard,  while allowing full mobility of your wrists. It has been designed by physicians, engineers and trauma specialists, specifically for snowboard. It is a dorsal protection worn on the back of the wrist which disperses initial impact loads up the forearm by transfering the energy.

Flexmeter was designed to respect the anatomical shape of the wrist it follows its shape and outline. Allows normal mobility of the wrist for ease of usage, as opposed to the protection commonly used by snowboarders, that are actually designed for in-line skating. The skate-type guards are often inappropriate and dangerous because they are too short, too stiff. Fractures are more severe when wearing these devices.

For skate, or euc, and ice skate protection have a look at our Flexmeter Demon Plus D3O especially designed for wintersports and freestyle snowboards.

How a snowboarder falls

The way snowboarders fall is well known: it is a hard landing on the heel of the hand. The wrist goes into hyperextension and compression, resulting in a fracture of the distal radius. With Flexmeter Single 1 protection, the hands and fingers are precluded from being outstretched and are therefore not subject to reverse extension injury.

Still to many wrist fractures are caused by snowboard falls each winter season throughout the world. The fracture is almost always located on the lower extreme part of the radius, just above the wrist joint. More than 50% of teen snowboard injuries are wrist fractures. Flexmeter, with its Hytrel Du Pont protection, enables the hyperextension of the wrist and absorbs compression forces. Scientific studies has shown the effectiveness of Flexmeter in reducing the risk of wrist injuries in snowboarding. Wrist fractures have been diminished by 67% in a group of snowboarders wearing Flexmeter protectors, compare to a group wearing no protection.

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