Bracing the knee - do you wear anything special to prevent injury while playing or exercising?

A knee brace
@pitstop (14899)
Australia
February 2, 2025 2:50pm CST
Over the last few years, I have developed some weird injury in the knee that gets aggravated when I play or run. I wear a knee brace suring sports or running to help protect the knee. I'm not sure if it's helpful, but some doctors and physiotherapists suggested this. But the main thing I need to do is to strengthen the muscles to stabililise the knee! I have to work on that too. That's the light knee brace that I wear - this time when I was playing badminton
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@rakski (135139)
• Philippines
3 Feb
I have a knee support for my right knee when walking. I am up for rehab med checkup or maybe a ortho doctor
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@pitstop (14899)
• Australia
3 Feb
Do you have any pain?
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@rakski (135139)
• Philippines
3 Feb
@pitstop not really painful but I know there is something and I am thinking of the beginning of Osteoarthritis. It is common in weight-bearing joints and in women as well
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@pitstop (14899)
• Australia
4 Feb
@rakski hope it doesn't get any worse.
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@JudyEv (349743)
• Rockingham, Australia
3 Feb
I wear a knee brace suring sports or running to help aggravate this. - you might to correct this although everyone will know what you meant. - I mean you need to make it a negative statement in particular, not the typo.
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@pitstop (14899)
• Australia
3 Feb
I wonder how it turned out that way!! I used the swipe keyboard in my phone and it can do weird stuff
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@JudyEv (349743)
• Rockingham, Australia
3 Feb
@pitstop Some of these fancy things think they know more than their owners.
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@RasmaSandra (83541)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
2 Feb
Since I don't play sports or exercise I have not thought about this. I do know that I have to have a shopping cart or a four-pronged cane with me when I go out because my right knee sometimes tends to go out and I don't want to fall,
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@pitstop (14899)
• Australia
3 Feb
Is there any pain in that knee
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@RasmaSandra (83541)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
3 Feb
@pitstop sometimes but not all the time a sharp pain shoots through,
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26 Feb
I am into muay thai as hobby. I am already 45 so just to be safe, I am wearing an ankle brace. I guesss this helps in preventing my ankle from Getting dangerously extended. Maybe I’ll stop wearing it when my ankles get stronger.
@pitstop (14899)
• Australia
26 Feb
That's interesting. I haven't heard of Muay Thai before. What kind of activity is it ?