Originally Posted by
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I'd say the last paragraph negates that. I told them the only reason I was wearing the knee brace was because I needed to wear it for sports and was taking a client to St Moritz to ski and it takes up too much space in my luggage, and offered a doctor's note (official) to say the same.
You're bordering on logic here, which is not very abundant in the TSA or its procedures.
As for the secondary screening, I did read that, but I'm not sure, short of you requiring you to go to the doctor, much can, or would, be done at the TSA.
For perspective, I've seen people get out of their wheelchairs and walk through the metal detector. One time in DEN, I encountered a really, um, colorful person...on the heels of a high-profile incident that was reported in the local media, telling the TSAer "I don't want your [effing] paws on me, I saw on TV what you do to people in wheelchairs."