Holly B. is an active professional in her late twenties who spends her free time playing recreational flag football and league basketball. She shares her experience with us as she explores the world of sports.

My friend Sandy has always been an athlete. She played high school basketball and she is also the quarterback on my flag football team and in the same recreational basketball league as me. Sandy has been relatively injury-free... maybe a couple minor ankle sprains or shoulder tendonitis over the years, until recently. The activity that has really started taking a toll on her body is running.

Sandy recently started getting in to marathons and regularly scheduled jogs around the neighborhood. She started feeling pain in her left knee. It got bad enough that she decided to see her doctor, who diagnosed it as Patellofemoral Pain Syndrome (PFPS), also known as Runner's Knee.

Luckily, there are knee braces for runner's knee which may help reduce the symptoms. PFPS knee braces help by applying pressure to the knee and also by "lifting" the kneecap in to proper position during athletic activities, such as running.

Sandy's still resting and healing, but when she starts activity again she'll be wearing a knee brace for runner's knee to help alleviate her patellofemoral pain.