Brace Yourself! Football Season's back!


A week from today The BC Lions will open their 2013 season in Calgary. Yes, football season is upon us once more.

Throughout Richmond and the rest of the Lower Mainland, young athletes and future CFL hopefuls are already on fields, spiralling their way through minor football seasons.

Football is a sport that puts your knee joints through their paces. Constant changes in direction requiring continual twisting and jarring of the joints can often cause injuries.

For those who've suffered knee injuries, even if those injuries came from more passive pursuits than advancing a pigskin across a gridiron field against an army of padded warriors, knee braces are probably no stranger.

For those who've suffered a knee injury and are now wading through all the information out there there to try to determine how to select a knee brace, check out this great white paper we've put together on knee braces.