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Message: [QUOTE="Coxy, post: 2090891, member: 1764"] Strapping can't do much for the ACL because it's internal to the knee joint. It basically stops the bottom leg slipping forward past the knee joint when you decelerate. A friend of mine has a ruptured ACL that he never got reconstructed, and he can basically pull his bottom leg forward. It looks gross. He still runs OK, but it feels unstable (and will eventually result in significant arthritis in the joint). Guys like Petero are strapped because of problems with the medial ligament, which is on the outside of the joint on the inside of the leg (if that makes sense). Corey Parker is wearing that all around brace for his PCL. It's similar to the ACL but is more about stopping the knee sliding backwards. The brace protects that quite well, and the ligament itself heals much stronger and quicker than the ACL (which almost never heals properly alone). [/QUOTE]

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