It is recommended to replace your CAPE garments after 6 months. This is because your body shape may change and the materials will inevitably degrade over time, altering the compression being delivered.

Yes. Please refer to our Guarantee page for details. 

We make a range of garments for different requirements. These include, calf sleeves, knee, arm and leg sleeves as well as leggings. See here for more information.

There is nothing special you need to do! 

1. Ensure you/client are standing in a clear area of >3m diameter. 
2. For:
   • Calf sleeves:  ensure bare feet, calves and knees.
   • All other garments including leggings:  ensure bare feet, legs and abdomen, or form-fitting underwear or bike shorts. Abdomen is clear from both front and back. Arms crossed to the shoulders.
3. Position feet shoulder width apart.

Scanning is easy!  Your health practitioner or coach can scan you using just a regular ipad/iphone with our CAPE Health app.  It is easy, fast and hyper-accurate.  Find your nearest clinic here or contact us if you are elite athlete.

CAPE is an acronym for Custom Athletic Performance Enhancement. Our Founder also spent 2.5 years living on Cape Cod as a postdoctoral scholar at MIT, and also worked at Cape Canaveral with NASA. We use the term bionics because we are providing devices which augment your physiology.

We have developed and patented a system called AutoTailor that imports the athlete 3D scan, material properties and desired compression regime, and outputs the pattern for cutting and assembly. It is based on the same technology, algorithms and processes used to design the spacesuits that ultimately went to the International Space Station. AutoTailor does not take major dimensions from a scan, or use commercial applications to interrogate the scan – we have developed our own process of identifying the critical body landmarks and extracting hundreds of measurements to design your garment from scratch, so that your garment is a precision fit. Our system has also been refined to improve execution speed, which makes custom sizing garments of various materials, and at various compression regimes, rapid and affordable for you.

We have developed specific and different compression regimes for these applications through our associations with some of the leading sports scientists on the planet. These proprietary regimes are the result of merging our extensive physiological expertise in compression from space, medical and sport applications into optimum remedial pressure regimes for you. The ability to impose these regimes on you, and bring you significant advantage, is what our success is built on.

It’s very important that you regularly wash your sleeves. We recommend you wash them after you wear them 3 times. This resets/restores the elastane to ensure the design compression is being applied. Your sleeves can be washed with your other clothes in a regular cycle (not hot), but do not tumble dry. You may wish to wash them in the provided wash bag for best results.

We use a pattern of small silicone dots on our cuffs to ensure your sleeves do not slip. This pattern is better than silicone stripes or wavy lines as it allows perspiration to escape around and through the dots.

In accordance with medical standards, we put a red ‘R’ label on the right sleeve, and a blue ‘L’ label on the left sleeve. These labels are on the outside so you can see them easily. We also put a label which states your name, player number and sleeve type (recovery, active, travel).