Alameda Runners – Get After It!

Runners sometimes complain of knee pain after tough training sessions, and that often leads to many ice packs used on knees and ankles.  Alameda Runners recently caught up with Moji, a company specializing in ice recovery, to discuss healing, injury prevention, and Moji’s innovative products.

The first tidbit learned involved were a few basic reasons why icing is an effective method to recover.

“Research supports icing as the simplest, safest, and most-effective method for reducing pain, yet many people forgo this natural remedy due to its inconveniences,” a Moji PR person told Alameda Runners.  “Icing doesn’t just help heal injuries, it helps prevent them.”

If you want to get more educational about your injuries, here is a more scientific approach to it.

“Exercise can cause microtrauma (tiny tears in muscle fibers) to tissues and tendons and icing reduces the inflammatory response and begins to prepare the body for its next workout.”

The company has custom knee and back ice recovery designs to help recovery in several locations — and looked to “set out to solve existing design limitations of available icing products to make the experience more comfortable and convenient.”  The company’s products are able to “encourage individuals to ice more frequently to take advantage of this proven method for reducing inflammation and relieving pain.”

Moji’s Knee brace helps offer the positive effects of icing “by focusing on comfort, mobility” and the product offers a “superior alternative to conventional icing methods to make the process of icing more practical and efficient.

Specifically, the knee brace has a two-piece design that uses a Moji Compression Wrap and a Moji Cold Cell pack to help aim relief to a targeted location.  The cold cells have been designed to be soft and pliable, which is what allows it to heal a targeted spot.

Interested readers can purchase Moji on GoMoji.com, Amazon.com and several other retailers in the United States — list can be found here — with the company inviting any retailers to contact them if interested in selling Moji products.

The Moji Knee brace costs $89 MSRP and replacement cold cells cost $49.00.  The Moji Back recovery system is available for $129 MSRP while replacement cells also cost $49.00.

Consumers can expect additional products from Moji in the future, as it will release the Moji Back Pain Relief System that offers a Heat cell alongside the Cold cell.  The product will launch this spring and uses an advanced interchangeable cell delivery system that uses both moist heat and cold therapy to aid pain relief.

Alameda Runners will have a Moji Knee brace review published later this week.