The present invention provides a composition, and a method of use thereof for treating connective tissue damage in man and in animals, which comprises a therapeutically effective amount of chondroitin sulfate, N-acetyl D-glucosamine, and hyaluronan. It includes a base configured to moveably hold a handle within at least a portion of the base. The two components of the strap are sized so that the safety strap is longer than the surrounding tubular elastic sheath. If the request message does not have a satisfactory security hint, the intermediate network node performs a security procedure on the data packets.