First of all, let's figure out what is protective gear. Protective gear, as the name suggests, is a protective tool to protect a person's body or a certain part of the body from injury or to avoid secondary injury. As long as it is a part of the human body, head protectors, shoulder protectors, hand protectors, elbow protectors, wrist protectors, waist protectors, leg protectors, knee protectors, ankle protectors, etc. can be designed according to the parts.

To a certain extent, there is not much essential difference between medical protective gear and sports protective gear. Medical protective gear emphasizes the rehabilitation process more, and more refers to the physical correction and recovery of the joints that have been injured or fatigued. The sports protective gear emphasizes the role of prevention more, and refers to a protective measure taken to avoid injury before a certain sport.

Take the definition of sports knee pads and medical knee pads:

What the Sports Knee Brace does: It strengthens the knee area, enhances stability, prevents knee pain and fatigue after prolonged exercise, provides pressure, and reduces swelling.

The role of medical knee pads: the material is soft and elastic. There are metal plastic stabilizing struts in the interlayer. It can support and relieve the load of weak and fatigued knee joints.

In general, the protective gear is to protect your joints from injury, and the sports protective gear can protect you from injury during exercise. Medical protective gear is to help you stabilize and recover after you are injured, so as to avoid being injured again.