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Compression gloves

Our largest range of colours & sizes, made from a cotton, polyester and spandex blend to deliver a perfect balance of compression, flexibility and comfort.

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Grace and Able compression glove on hand in chocolate brown.

Skin tones

Our classic compression gloves, now available in an expanded range of skin tones, offering the same level of compression and support in more subtle shades.

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Comfy cotton

These gloves are slightly longer in the wrist and fingers, offering enhanced compression and warmth, as well as a higher cotton content to offer premium comfort.

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Extra grip compression gloves with silicone dots for arthritis and carpal tunnel in classic black.

Extra grip

Our newest compression gloves feature non-slip silicone grip dots on the palm, offering all of the benefits of classic gloves, plus enhanced grip to make everyday tasks easier.

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Have you seen our cooling compression range?

Black Grace & Able Cooling Compression Sleeve for Knee Pain on a white background.

Cooling Compression Sleeve For Knee Pain

Whether you’re battling osteoarthritis or a knee injury, this gel sleeve has got your back.

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Cooling Compression Sleeve For Thumb & Wrist Pain

Designed to gently hug your joint, this gel pack works wonders on those pesky aches and pains.

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  • 5 stars: 152 (66%)
  • 4 stars: 51 (22%)
  • 3 stars: 23 (10%)
  • 2 stars: 2 (1%)
  • 1 star: 3 (1%)
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Christina

They fit well, but one glove already had some broken stitches/starts of holes before I put it on. They've not grown since, but it's definitely a weak point so I'll be saving this pair for harder working days

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Odette

My 93 year old Mum who has very painful hands LOVES these gloves. They help a lot. I have just ordered a second pair. Thank you very much.

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Anonymous

I find the fingers/thumb little too short for me as I have arthritis in top joints which are not covered by the gloves. Some relief but not as much as I’d hoped.

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Ruth

Hi, the first couple of nights the gloves helped a lot. As my fingers are quite deformed, they were cramping badly in the night causing me to wake up in a lot of pain. This has been relieved with the gloves but after just a few days, I feel that they have stretched a little causing the compression not to feel as good. I think the quality of the gloves could be improved as the tops of the fingers are not finished very well so they’re fraying bits..
The condition of my hands in the daytime has not changed, but certainly they are a comfort at night.
It would be good if they were more affordable as they are quite a luxury when on a tight budget which I’m sure a lot of people suffering with arthritis are? I have ordered the knee compression and I’m waiting for its arrival., so hoping for good results.
Thank you for giving me the opportunity to review this product.

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Melvyn

fitted like a glove.

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Jackie

I am really pleased with these gloves they do seem to make my hands feel more comfortable. Would recommend thank you.

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Anonymous

I find the compression gloves are comfortable to wear and helpful for painful swollen hands.

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RUTH

The gloves are wonderful. I can knit again! I'm thinking of buying another pair in a different colour.

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Richard

They are soft and comfortable but they ride up a little on the wrists and depending on how bad a flare up is they could be a little tighter but that’s more a problem for me than the gloves. They do work well with my wrist supports though and this stops them riding up. I think I’m going to buy some the next size down for days when compression is needed more than support.

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Anonymous

Great compression gloves… they help me enormously!

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Stella

By chance I chose the correct size! - when the autumn/winter arrives they will be wonderful when I am potting up thousands of Camassia bulbs on the nursery!

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Anonymous

These gloves are useful and help with the pain. But the ends of the fingers are badly finished off.

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Susan

I am very pleased with the gloves. I was disappointed that I could not get black. I had to make do with pink which I don’t consider an everyday serviceable colour. I would like to know when black is available.

Hi Susan, it's great to hear that you're pleased with the gloves, and we apologise for the lack of availability in black. We should have more black gloves available at the end of this month in the full range of sizes. Feel free to get in touch if you need anything else.

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Anonymous

Excellent, had tried other brands but not small enough. Is great to have an option in extra small!

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Mrs

I was a bit dubious about ordering at first but so pleased I did, . My right hand especially suffers from arthritis in the morning on waking up, but gloves are perfect and takes the pain away,.. just be careful on ordering though, although my hands are small I still went for the medium and so glad I did as small would have extra tight and would not have been able to use them.

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Anonymous

Very pleased with purchase. They really help!

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Anonymous

I am a jiujitsu practitioner. After training in Gi, I often had a tight, swollen, and engorged feeling in my hands. I understand that this is caused by acute fluid accumulation, micro-trauma, and vascular congestion from sustained, high-intensity gripping. As an arthritis sufferer, repetitive isometric squeezing triggers inflammation that makes my finger joints feel bursting and stiff. I have significantly reduced the wear and tear of my hobby by taping my fingers and wearing these pressure gloves for a few hours after training.

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Michelle

Really felt some support when wearing these during activities

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Cathy

Make such a difference.

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Alexis

Am very happy with my gloves they do help my hands when knitting, easy to put on and hope to be be able to knit for longer now.

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Angela

I have various health issues and pain in my hands, and these gloves do help. I’m struggling to wear them in this heatwave, but I’m looking forward to getting more wear out of them when it gets cooler

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Meg

Lovely gloves. Wear them often!

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Dennis

Thank you for your service.

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marina

These compression gloves are great! After overdoing the cleaning of dirty corners and around tasps removing some thick timescale, my hands...fingers in particular we're stiff and sore. I put the compression gloves on and they improved the comfort of my hands enormously.

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Janet

Comfortable and good quality, to me they seem a little on the big size I ordered medium according to the measurements and feel small would have been better.

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Robert

The best thing I’ve bought in a long while, has made my days less sufferable.

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marina

I love these. I wear them at night and my hands are less stiff in the mornings.

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Susan

No complaints about the gloves themselves but the delivery time and ordering platform were not very good.
When my order did not arrive within a few days I had to email ARthritis UK and even then did not get a reply from them straight away.
However actual product was good when it did finally arrive.

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Kenneth

helpfull

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Ruth

Took a long time to come, but fit well.

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