I hope you healed well, tastiger -- I still use my DonJoy brace when I play soccer, and my injury was when I was in my late teens... so even 30 years later, my knee can still hyperextend without warning. I coached youth soccer for 10 years, and never felt safe without my brace on. Then when I started playing on an adult league, I would not step on the field without it. Sometimes long bike rides can even setoff spasms still, and make it feel unstable, so I've learned when to pack it just in case.
I pointlessly have my grandmother's titanium knee from when she was cremated... I pointlessly asked the engineering teacher at my kids' school if he could use it for a teaching aid, and he said, Oh, cool, can we play with it too? Needless to say, I'm donating it to the engineering teacher :mrgreen: I know, morbid & sad!