I had an ACL reconstruction surgery 20 years ago. The original injury happened 8 years before that. When I asked my surgeon about knee braces he told me that a plaster cast was the only real way to protect the ACL.
In spite of that I wear Asterisk's with the reasoning that even if they don't protect my knee from twisting (I have the old style without the boot strap) that they are worth wearing for the patella protection and to avoid hyper-extension. I have had them rebuilt once and they have marks all over them from things smashing into them that at the very least would not have felt good had I not been wearing them. I won't ride without them.
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