WAGs - Wrist Assured Gloves

  • ...get support from gel pads that prevent hyperextension. - Pilates Style
  • ...provides relief from the common problem of wrist pain. - Yoga Magazine
  • Wrist Assured Gloves act like yoga or Pilates props...- Idea Fitness Journal

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Louise

Age: 31

Profession: IT

How Wrist Assured™ Gloves are used? Pilates

Years doing Yoga or Pilates: Not yet 1

Leisure Interests: Soccer

Comments: “I recieved my gloves in the mail today just in time for my private pilates session, and we put the gloves to the test, 30 minutes on my wrists doing pikes on the ball and pushups and no pain! Thank You!”

Yet to do in life: LOTS!

Kayley King

Age: 28

Comments: “I've been in Iraq for about 4-5 months now it's my first deployment. I started doing yoga a year ago & I stopped for a while when I joined the Army in October 2006. I haven't sustained any major injuries on the job or during a routine. I work in communications and repair & maintain radios. I have been doing cross over training and working with computers lately, which probably lead to minor carpal tunnel syndrome. I started yoga up about a month after I got here and am using the gloves for yoga and pilates. It helps with stress relief, plus I hope that these gloves will improve my performance. Thank you again for the gift and for your prayers and blessings.”

How Wrist Assured™ Gloves Came to Be...

It all started with a casual game of street soccer.


JPP founder using a pair of handmade gloves to make side plank more bearable. -Sept. 2005

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.


WAGs inventor wearing the prototype of our first generation fingerless Wrist Assured Gloves. Sept. 2005

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, WAGs Wrap, was released in 2009.

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 an ergonomically designed 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.

Wrist Assured™, you’ll feel the difference.

US and Foreign Patents are Pending.