What is your IT band? The iliotibial band (ITB), or ‘IT band’ as it’s more commonly known, is a ligament-like structure that starts at your pelvis and runs along the outside of your thigh to ...
Iliotibial band friction syndrome is a common cause of knee pain in long distance runners. The pain is caused by friction of the iliotibial band over the lateral epicondyle of the femur. Two hundred ...
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Ober [4] has described a test for iliotibial band tightness that, in my experience, may not be helpful in diagnosing ITBFS. With the patient lying on the unaffected side, the unaffected hip and ...
The patellar tendon is the band-like tissue that connects the bottom of the patella to the tibia (shin bone). Iliotibial band syndrome exists as pain on the outside of your knee. It usually comes ...
Next would be iliotibial band syndrome, which is pain on the outside of the knee. The last thing that we tend to see is Achilles tendonitis — that’s inflammation just above the heel bone on ...