Abstract: A knee joint bandage has a downwardly decreasing knee hose element composed of an elastic material and having a front side and a central region of its height, and a supporting element connectable with the hose element at the front side and in the central region of the height of the hose element and having a central supporting portion which is bent downwardly in correspondence with the user's knee disk so that upon putting the bandage on the user's leg the supporting portion abuts against the user's knee disk from below and thereby supports the user's knee disk from below.