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Re: The Carson Palmer saga and the concerns and high costs of cutting corners...
Posted By: Michael Frind
Date: Thursday, 1 May 2008, at 5:37 p.m.
In Response To: Re: day 22 for 12 yo daughter (AggieCatcher2)
Dear Aggie,
One brief addendum to the Carson Palmer saga you quoted: the choice of knee brace. Carson Palmer was given a Breg Fusion, a stamped-aluminum sheet-metal brace with a very weak plastic side section. The brace failed during a side impact from another player. A well-made brace would have been able to tolerate this type of situation.
The Fusion is arguably the world's worst-designed, flimsiest knee brace and perhaps the world's most dangerous product. Why this $100-million quarterback was given a low-quality brace is beyond me. (Incidentally, all of Breg's braces are off-the-shelf, including the bent-to-shape ones which this firm still manages to sell as "custom-made".)
Had Carson Palmer been given any high-quality, custom-made carbon-fibre functional brace (e.g. DonJoy Defiance, Ossur/Innovation Sports CTi2, Townsend Premier or Air, Karl Hager Double X, etc.), I am certain he would have been fine now. (Palmer did wear a DonJoy Defiance earlier, but for some reason he was given a Breg Fusion, perhaps as a result of Breg's marketing efforts in the football realm. Obviously, whoever encouraged or recommended the choice of Breg cut some very serious corners in the decision-making process.)
So, that shortcut in brace choice was an extremely expensive mistake. Fortunately, Palmer seems to be doing well now with his allograft ACL-reconstructed knee, as you noted. Let's hope his reconstructed knee gives him good service for many years!
Yours truly,
Michael Frind.
Knee Library http://factotem.org/library
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