ProBand Sports Industries
Improving Function, Motion, and Pain Resolution

Not too long ago, a young athlete with a promising college football career, a running back at UCLA, was forced to retire medically. The game had taken its toll on his knees, requiring multiple surgeries to fix, including a full knee reconstruction surgery. Enduring intense pain, he started using KneedIT, a non-invasive pain relief device, allowing him to make a comeback and continue playing football in his final year at UCLA.

This motivational comeback by Justin D. Fareed, voted by his teammates as the ‘Most Inspirational Player’ is the greatest testimonial for ProBand KneedIT. Today, he is the President and CEO of ProBand Sports Industries, and the pain-relief device he wore was designed and engineered by his father, world-renowned sports orthopedic surgeon, Dr. Donald Fareed.

Dr. Fareed’s experience as a battalion surgeon stationed in Central America during the Vietnam War, treating his patients with limited resources, taught him, among other things, to use the body’s natural movements to heal the source of the pain. Using this experience, Dr. Fareed developed a medical device when one of the world’s premier tennis players approached him with a case of carpal tunnel syndrome and requested a non-invasive treatment plan before the surgery became unavoidable.

The product Dr. Fareed developed laid the foundation for the creation of ProBand Sports Industries in 1992, focusing on physio-therapeutic products. It leveraged the anatomical movement of the body to pump out inflammation by applying intermittent compression at its source. Today, although the company has evolved since then, the core technology remains the same. Its flagship product, the ProBand BandIT, uses patented ‘Anatomically Focused Dynamic Compression^® to provide intermittent compression, directed at the source of the inflammation using the body’s movement.

“Other treatments require the immobilization of the affected body part, allowing it to slowly heal the downstream symptoms, whereas ProBand’s technology does the opposite by using the patients' natural range of motion to target the very source of the injury,” explains Fareed.

ProBand’s entire line of products comes with adjustable pads, contoured to fit the designated body part and provide maximum relief when the part is moved with the fastened band attached. The ProBand product lineup has BandIT^®, KneedIT^® and Ankle BandIT^®, and the XM series, which includes the BandIT XM^® and KneedIT XM^®, incorporating magna-therapy. They are designed to counter repetitive stress injuries (RSI) that cause carpal tunnel syndrome, tendonitis, tennis, and golfer’s elbow, runner's and jumper’s knee, osteoarthritis, chronic ankle sprains, and plantar fasciitis, ailments centered around the elbow, forearm, knees, and ankles. Decompressing the ankle joint is a special case, as there was a market gap for a product that was effective without necessitating immobilization. The Ankle BandIT fills that gap with a solution that athletes and tradesmen can wear along with their shoes and other gear, allowing them to be functional without causing any hindrance.

The ProBand allows individuals to remain functional citizens and athletes, while actively treating the source of the pain. Fareed is a walking testimonial for the effectiveness of its entire range, helping him throughout the life stages, and preserving his mobility and functionality. It significantly helped an athlete recently when a top-ranked professional pickleball player, Jill Braverman, inquired about it when she sprained her ankle on tour. She was aware of the ProBand range of products and requested the ProBand Ankle BandIT for her inflammation. The severe swelling had immobilized her for some time, but after using the product, the swelling was gone, which allowed for a faster recovery, expediting her return to the court.

Our team at ProBand has an unrelenting commitment and unwavering passion for helping people live pain-free lives, so that they can enjoy every aspect of what they do

“What I love about the Ankle BandIT is that it’s a wearable solution that fits inside my shoe and gives me the support I need while providing active decompression to pump out any inflammation and swelling I’m experiencing,” says Braverman. “I’ve been using the Ankle BandIT ever since, and it has helped me so much. It significantly decreased my inflammation and got me back on my feet in what felt like no time!”

The episode showcases that in addition to being known through the main medical channels of orthopedic association groups, athletic trainers, and physical therapists, ProBand is becoming a common name among end users in the sports and trades community as well. It has set out on an educational campaign across the space about RSI and how to prevent and treat them so that it doesn’t take a medical practitioner’s recommendation for individuals to seek ProBand for relief. Athletes can focus on their careers without the fear of abrupt retirement looming over their heads.