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Unfortunately, arm injuries, carpal tunnel and wrist arthritis are all incredibly common. A recent study found that over a ten-year period, an average of 2.6 million people with wrist injuries ...
Jon Nicholson carves the bowl at Millennium Skate Park - October 2019 Typical In-line skating protective gear includes helmet, elbow pads, wrist guards, and knee pads. A wrist-guard is a device to protect the wrist from sport injuries. [1] Wrist-guards are sold in skateboard, snowboard and sporting goods stores.
Stone wrist-guards from Central Europe, Bell Beaker culture. The wrist-guards are small rectangles of stone (often slate) with a number of perforations, typically between two and six, which might allow attachment to the arm with cord. One, from Hemp Knoll in Wiltshire, had markings which clearly indicate its attachment to the arm by two cords.
A manica (Latin: manica, "sleeve"; [1] Greek: χεῖρες, kheires, "sleeves") was a type of iron or copper-alloy laminated arm guard with curved, overlapping metal segments or plates fastened to leather straps worn by ancient and late antique heavy cavalry, infantry, and gladiators.
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A bracer (or arm-guard) is a strap or sheath, commonly made of leather, stone or plastic, that covers the ventral (inside) surface of an archer's bow-holding arm. It protects the archer's forearm against injury by accidental whipping from the bowstring or the fletching of the arrow while shooting , and also prevents the loose sleeve from ...
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A left-arm vambrace; the bend would be placed at the knight's elbow An ornate German (16th century) vambrace made for Costume Armor. Vambraces (French: avant-bras, sometimes known as lower cannons in the Middle Ages) or forearm guards are tubular or gutter defences for the forearm worn as part of a suit of plate armour that were often connected to gauntlets.