Joey Bulla has been active his entire life – he is a four-time combat veteran (Special Operations for the U.S. Marine Corps), a former corrections officer, and a mixed martial arts and fight team instructor. He was part of the Marine’s Olympic Fight Team and has participated in multiple fights, including the world championships. Joey was actively competing in martial arts and fight contests when his patella tendon suddenly ruptured. The pain was so intense that he was unable to walk for quite some time, putting him on the sidelines. His doctor performed surgery on his knee and put him in a competitor’s knee brace, but eventually switched the brace out for a Breg T Scope® Premier Post-Op Knee Brace after complaints of the competitor’s brace being too uncomfortable. After only three months in our brace, Joey’s range of motion in his knee had gone from only bending 5 degrees…

At just 25 years old, Christina Esposito’s knee has been through it all. It all began her freshman year of college. She was at the top of her lacrosse game and earned a spot on Northwestern University’s starting line-up as an attacker. She was practicing with her teammates before a game day when she suddenly felt (and heard) multiple pops in her left knee. In a split second, she had torn her lateral and medial meniscus, ACL and MCL, and suffered from an LCL sprain and multiple bone contusions.

At just 25 years old, Christina Esposito’s knee has been through it all. It all began her freshman year of college. She was at the top of her lacrosse game and earned a spot on Northwestern University’s starting line-up as an attacker. She was practicing with her teammates before a game day when she suddenly felt (and heard) multiple pops in her left knee. In a split second, she had torn her lateral and medial meniscus, ACL and MCL, and suffered from an LCL sprain and multiple bone contusions.

Teaching high school science in New York City requires a certain amount of mental fortitude, but it’s all in a day’s work for Gina Marie Policastro. When she isn’t in the classroom, she’s at the gym, training as an elite Crossfit and Strongman athlete. Even a devastating ACL tear in December 2018 couldn’t keep the NBC Titan Games competitor down for long.