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Originally Posted by Kelvin green
Is there a liability issue if the kid reinjures it? Only a qualified attorney in our jurisdiction can tell you that one....
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I asked my uncle on this, and while he isn't a sports law specialist or anything, he didn't think there would be anymore liability than if a kid with an approved knee brace was playing and hurt his previously torn ACL. Essentially he equated the knee brace to the stitches, and while I'm sure someone will come along and say that is apples to oranges (being in the medical field I agree to an extent that they are different), but in a legal sense my uncle said they could both be described as medical devices used to aid in the healing of an injury.
He did ultimately decide that a better analogy would be playing with a band-aid. How many would keep a kid with a band-aid over a cut from playing so long as blood wasn't oozing from under it?
As was already said, the rules don't prohibit it, and I'm too worried about it from a medical standpoint (the kid isn't going to die if he re-opens the injury), and now I have a semi-legal backing. I say let he kid play.