- Mar 15, 2011
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Yea, those are usually preventative and they are made slightly different than ones you wear after an injury. I don't remember what the specific differences are though.I wore one one season after I sprained my ankle. But as soon as my ankle was no longer weak I stopped wearing it. I agree with you, you shouldn't have to permanently wear one.
That being said - when I was in college all of the linemen (or some group on the football team, I forget who) wore full blown knee braces like you would wear after an ACL surgery, but I think it was preventative.