Braces for loading andor unloading knees, elbows and other joints. A preferred embodiment comprises a receiver that can despread and then demodulate a symbol from a transmitter that first spread and then modulated the symbol. Thus, in a transparent and automated manner, defects found during diagnostics are stored in a database of unusable emulator resources. These eRIFs will be positioned either on the edges or on the medial axis or skeleton of the desired pattern.