New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady, who played last week with black KT Tape over stitches on his right throwing hand, is wearing a reportedly specially designed Under Armour glove that amplifies far infrared rays that purportedly hasten the body’s ability to heal.
Brady before he plays on Sunday against the Philadelphia Eagles in Super Bowl LII told reporters that Under Armour, whose products he endorses, had made the glove for him, saying, “It’s got a lot of recovery in it.”
Sources later told the Baltimore Sun that the glove has the same bioceramics technology as Brady’s sleepwear and bedding line that absorbs and transmits far infrared light.
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“The technology behind it emits far infrared,” Brady send in a promotional video for his recovery sleepwear. “The far infrared, when it’s against your skin, ends up reducing inflammation.”
Michael Hamblin, a Ph.D. associate professor of dermatology at Harvard Medical School and a principal investigator at Massachusetts General Hospital, has researched far infrared and told the Sun of its efficacy, “I’m pretty sure there is some effect. I wouldn’t call it a dramatic effect.”