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Old 10-17-2015, 02:31 PM
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Originally Posted by 12Bravo View Post
How wells do the knee braces help?

Meaning, can you still drop a leg and help with balance and corners? or is it restrictive?
They're not very restrictive with regard to doing what you need to do.
Mainly for us guys that have blown/repaired ACL/MCL or other knee injury.

A lot of guys wear them to protect from those injuries but it is no guarantee. I wore them for a few years and still tore my ACL just putting my foot out and it made contact with a dirt clod after track had been "disced" up.

I rode for nearly 30yrs without them and 4 with the 2nd gen Asterisk brand. Now I have to wear one on the repaired knee. It is a custom made and a standard of the shelf for the good knee. Both are made by CTi/Ossur.
So take it for what its worth.
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