Brace

Brace(s) or bracing may refer to:

Medical

 * Orthopaedic brace, a device used to restrict or assist body movement
 * Back brace, a device limiting motion of the spine
 * Milwaukee brace, a kind of back brace used in the treatment of spinal curvatures
 * Boston brace, a kind of back brace used in the treatment of spinal curvatures
 * Cervical collar, also called a neck brace, used to restrict neck movement
 * Dental braces, a device used to reposition teeth

Clothing

 * Brace (armor), a shortened form of vambrace
 * Braces (clothing), elastic fabric straps used to support trousers (known in American English as suspenders)

Construction and industrial arts

 * Brace (tool), a hand tool for drilling holes, also known as a bit brace
 * Brace (theatre), a stabilizer for a piece of scenery
 * A reinforcement used in architecture, such as in timber framing
 * Wheel brace, aka lug wrench, used to remove nuts or bolts holding wheels to a vehicle
 * Bracing (aeronautics), struts and wires which stiffen and strengthen the airframe
 * Cross brace, a cross-beam connecting between arches that is meant to add rigidity to the construction of mining tunnels
 * Cross bracing, a system utilized to reinforce building structures in which diagonal supports intersect
 * Guy-wire, a tensioned cable designed to add stability to a free-standing structure

People

 * Brace (surname)
 * Brace (singer) (born 1986), Dutch singer
 * Brace Arquiza (born 2000), Filipino actor, model, dancer and singer
 * Brace Beemer (born 1902), American radio actor and announcer
 * Brace Belden (born 1989), American leftist

Places

 * Brace Brook, tributary of the Lackawanna River in Pennsylvania
 * Brace Farm, historic home and farm in New York
 * Brace Hill, mountain located in the Catskill Mountains
 * Brace Mountain, the peak of a ridge in the southern Taconic Mountains
 * Braces Point, northeast point of Vindication Island, South Sandwich Islands
 * Meole Brace, suburb of Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England

Posture

 * Brace position, a body stance used to prepare for a crash
 * Military brace, a body posture primarily used in military schools

Music

 * Brace (music), connecting two staves
 * Guitar bracing, internal reinforcements of a classical or acoustic guitar
 * Brace (album), a 2016 album by Birds of Tokyo
 * "Brace" (song), the album's title song
 * Brace (singer) (born 1986), Dutch singer
 * DJ Brace (born 1980), DJ and producer

Sports

 * Brace (sports), a term meaning "scoring twice in a game" in a number of sports (cf., hat-trick)
 * Brace (MMA), MMA organization

Other meanings

 * Brace (sailing), the lines used to rotate the yards around the mast
 * Braces (punctuation), the "{" and "}" symbols, i.e., "curly brackets"
 * Curly bracket programming language, a programming language that uses braces
 * Bracing style, a type of indent style used in computer programming
 * "Braces" (Care Bears episode), an episode of Care Bears