![]() ![]() Interviewer: What about stretches? Actually, before I say stretches, I want to talk about foam rolling. They basically strengthen the lateral glutes and hips. So a lot of times we'll work on something called clamshells, if you've heard of that. Interviewer: And there are exercises that can help teach the body that?ĭr. It's more about getting it to fire with others in concert so that as you're moving that joint, they're all firing together and supporting that joint a little better. Gee: Yeah, we mostly just say strength or dynamic control, is kind of what the term I'll use with people. What would you call that, where you're teaching your body how to fire muscles in a different way? What's that called?ĭr. Interviewer: So if somebody's experiencing knee pain and it's caused by the IT band issue, it sounds like perhaps some of the treatments might include some exercises to strengthen the glutes and other muscles or some. So if their leg almost bows out a little bit, it will kind of put more tension onto that IT band, and just cause it to kind of catch and snap a little bit. But number two, sometimes the way people run or their activity, if they're maybe rotating their leg in a certain way and just causing that to be a little more tight. So that's number one, is that you're just sort of set up for it by your musculature and your tension. And that little tensor fasciae latae that sits within that can be a little tighter in some people, and so it'll pull on that a little bit more and it'll cause it to potentially snap in that area. Some people tend to be a lot tighter in their joints and they'll have tighter muscles in general. Gee: A lot of it depends on kind of structural differences. Interviewer: So is there a reason why some people might have IT band syndrome? Two people doing the exact same thing and some people might experience IT band syndrome and some people don't?ĭr. But, well, it can be very painful at times and be quite limiting, particularly to runners or people that are in running sports like soccer. Gee: Yeah, it's sort of a structural stabilizer and we need it, obviously, to kind of maintain things. Interviewer: That sounds like a design flaw that it would rub like that when you're doing something like running or moving.ĭr. ![]() It's still there and every time you're moving, it just keeps on snapping and catching and causing that pain. And over time, you're going to try to adjust that backpack. It's kind of like if you're wearing a backpack and that backpack has a strap that's rubbing on your shoulder. Is that kind of what's going on, except for it's on the inside?ĭr. Eventually, that would start to irritate your skin. Interviewer: So it would be similar to if you had something rubbing on your skin constantly over and over and over again. The bursa is a little sack that has very little fluid in it, and it's there to decrease friction, but that'll sometimes get inflamed and it makes it painful to run and walk, and it starts to get very tight feeling on the side of the knee or the hip. There can be a little bursa that sits underneath it. Now, you can imagine if you are running or doing some other activity that there's a lot of kind of knee bending over and over and over, that's going to start to potentially get that area inflamed and it'll cause some pain in that area. So it's most common in the knee, and what'll happen is every time you flex your knee, the IT band kind of swings back and snaps over the side of the femur. What it does is, since it is over the side of the hip and over the side of the knee and it's kind of holding things in, every time you bend the knee or bend the hip, it has a potential to kind of catch on some bony prominences that are there. Gee: So IT band syndrome is generally an overuse kind of problem. Interviewer: And what causes IT band syndrome? When somebody says, "Oh, I've got IT band problems," what were they likely doing that led to that?ĭr. And it's got a little bit of muscle called the tensor fasciae latae that sits within it, and it basically kind of holds things into the side of your leg, is what it does. It attaches on your ileum, which is your pelvis, so kind of the side of the upper part of your hip, goes down across the bony hip bone on the side, and travels all the way down and attaches on the side of your leg or your tibia. So the iliotibial band is basically a big thick band of tissue that. And to better help us understand more about this tendon, how it can be injured, and how to ultimately treat it, we're joined by sports medicine specialist, Dr. Interviewer: Experiencing pain or swelling on the outside of your knee might not be a problem with the knee itself, but rather the IT band. ![]()
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