How Wrist Assured™ Gloves Came to Be…
It all started with a casual game of street soccer.
In fact, it was the founder of Joint Protection Products (JPP) own wrist injury that sparked the development of the new Wrist Assured™ Fitness Glove.
Like you, Paula Wilbert is active and health conscious. But after experiencing a soccer-mom tumble (while trying to score against her 6 year old son!) Paula developed sore wrists, so sore she was unable to put weight on her hands. After allowing some healing time Paula attempted to resume her yoga practice, but she continued to experience pain and discomfort in those hands-on weight-bearing poses so common in yoga and Pilates.
As a licensed occupational therapist, Paula knew she needed to take the strain off her wrists. So she cut up a foam mouse pad and secured it at her wrists with an elastic wrap. Immediately feeling the benefit of lifting and cushioning the wrist, Paula envisioned a practical (and more attractive!) solution to her problem: a fitness glove with firm gel to cradle the wrist. To find her solution, Paula went shopping… She found biking gloves, weight-lifting gloves, gloves for gripping, and a variety of wrist wraps and braces to relieve carpal tunnel syndrome, but nothing designed to support and cushion the wrist during exercise. Soon it was clear; no such product existed — yet.
A problem-solver by vocation and disposition, Paula set out to create the glove herself. After months of gooey experiments creating various molds and gel pads she came up with an ergonomic design that gave her wrists relief from the stress of weight-bearing exercise. She sent the gel pads to master seamstress Judy Lawson who fashioned a glove around it.
Paula donned her new gloves and resumed her yoga and Pilates mat classes — free of wrist pain!
Other classmates suffering the same wrist pain started asking Paula where they, too, could get a pair. Their interest and desire sparked the 2005 formation of Joint Protection Products, LLC. After months of consultations with hand surgeons, Pilates trainers, yoga instructors, fitness enthusiasts, PTs, OTs, bio-mechanical engineers, polymer specialists, sports manufacturers and more… the glove was tested, perfected and market ready.
In January 2007 Wrist Assured™ Gloves (WAGs) were launched at the Yoga Journal Conference in San Francisco. In July 2007 a second, improved version of WAGs was introduced at the IDEA World Fitness Expo in San Diego and a third variation is planned for release in 2008.
Today, JPP is pleased to contribute to your health and well being by bringing Wrist Assured™ Fitness Gloves to you. You can now continue to receive the lifestyle benefits of a regular yoga and Pilates practice without the interference of wrist pain. Our glove offers a latex-free contoured silicone gel pad sewn into a comfortable stretchable fabric. The non-slip palms provide grip on any surface. We use high quality durable materials. The re-usable mesh bag eliminates throw away packaging. Our gloves are made in the USA and Canada, a conscious choice to be sweat-shop free and support fair labor wages.
Wrist Assured™, you’ll feel the difference.
US and Foreign Patents are Pending.
