Raph's bad knees?

[Bombshell]

I was studying the way each turtle was designed and Raph seems a little banged up. Every turtle seems to wear the same amount of gear based on their weapons etc., but nothing extra. Except for Raph.

He has extra wraps going around his knees and under his kneepads. Any theories for this? My imagination says it has something to do with that crack in his plastron. I doubt the crack will ever be examined by the cartoon but it'd make sense to group the crack and the knee braces together.

Or maybe I'm just over thinking the design Either way, its fun to speculate. Thoughts?



P.S. This should probably go in the Nick section. I honestly thought I was already there when I posted!