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Originally Posted by JetMetFan
NFHS 3-5-2 probably deals with it best:
There really isn’t anything specific to elbow or knee pads. The generic concern is whatever a player wears can’t be a danger to anyone or provide an unfair advantage to the person wearing the padding.
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So I guess the general consensus is that knee pads, elbow pads, and other preventative padding are all legal. In my mind I guess I was reading the rule as : All of the listed equipment are for protection of an existing healing injury and/or prevention of re-injury to said "Medical reason." I was reading it as prevention of a first time injury (ie kneepads) as one thing and protection of an existing injury (ie healing strained ACL with knee brace) as another.
How can knee pads be "worn for medical reasons" if no injury exists? Thoughts?