Properly known as iliotibial band syndrome or ITBS, this annoying conditon accounts for 12 percent of all running related overuse injuries. ❋ Unknown (2009)
But I have been dealing with incredibly annoying hip pain and a strained tensor fascia latae (TFL) and iliotibial band (ITB) -- a band of muscles that runs down your hip and outer thigh and apparently makes your legs work (as far as I understand). ❋ Emily Faherty (2011)
Make sure to loosen up your hamstrings, quads, calves, iliotibial (IT) band, hips, buttocks and the plantar fascia (area at the bottom of your feet between the heel and ball of foot). ❋ Unknown (2009)
Running with your feet turned out can also aggravate the iliotibial band, which is attached at its lower end to the lateral side of your tibia just below your knee. ❋ Danny Dreyer (2009)
The iliotibial band is a thick fibrous band running along the outside of the leg from the hip (ilium) to the shin bone (tibia) just below the kneecaplike a stripe down the side of your leg. In the hip area the upper end of the IT band and the hip are joined together by a muscle (the tensor fascia latae), which you can see just under the shorts on many lean runners and walkers. ❋ Danny Dreyer (2009)
By the end of the day it felt like a combination of sciatica, iliotibial band syndrome, restless leg syndrome and a pinched nerve, with perhaps a touch of hypochondria thrown in for good measure too. ❋ Unknown (2009)
However, discovering the sweet spot of your pelvic tilt by Body Sensing Chapter 3 is a self-discovery that will add years to your running, improve your overall posture, keep your hips and lower back healthy, stave off hip replacements and iliotibial band syndrome, and do a host of other good deeds for your body. ❋ Danny Dreyer (2009)
This is a big cause of runners knee as well as iliotibial band and hip injuries. ❋ Danny Dreyer (2009)
The side-to-side movement of the hips, due to disengaged core muscles, is the number one cause of hip bursitis and iliotibial band syndrome. ❋ Danny Dreyer (2009)
This is a waste of energy and may cause future problems by placing undue stress on your hips, knees, and IT (iliotibial) bands (tendons that run vertically between your knee and hip, along the outside of your legs). ❋ Katherine Dreyer (2006)
The part of the iliotibial band which lies beneath the Tensor fasciæ latæ is prolonged upward to join the lateral part of the capsule of the hip-joint. ❋ Unknown (1918)
The fibers are directed obliquely downward and lateralward; those forming the upper and larger portion of the muscle, together with the superficial fibers of the lower portion, end in a thick tendinous lamina, which passes across the greater trochanter, and is inserted into the iliotibial band of the fascia lata; the deeper fibers of the lower portion of the muscle are inserted into the gluteal tuberosity between the Vastus lateralis and Adductor magnus. ❋ Unknown (1918)
This band is continued downward, under the name of the iliotibial band (tractus iliotibialis) and is attached to the lateral condyle of the tibia. ❋ Unknown (1918)
The Glutæus maximus is a tensor of the fascia lata, and by its connection with the iliotibial band steadies the femur on the articular surfaces of the tibia during standing, when the Extensor muscles are relaxed. ❋ Unknown (1918)
Of these the lateral are the stronger, and are continuous with the iliotibial band. ❋ Unknown (1918)
In the erect posture, acting from below, it will serve to steady the pelvis upon the head of the femur; and by means of the iliotibial band it steadies the condyles of the femur on the articular surfaces of the tibia, and assists the Glutæus maximus in supporting the knee in the extended position. ❋ Unknown (1918)
patient: "Yo doc, [my knee] hurts [like whoa]"
doctor:"Hmm...looks like Iliotibial Band Friction. Have [a lollipop]." ❋ The Knee Doctor (2011)
SS: I have an extra ticket to see the Iliotibial Band play tonight if you are interested?
[Ike]: I heard [the Easter Bunny] is opening for them.
SS: Nope, he's out [kicking ass] right now.
Ike: Oh, that's pretty unexplainable, I'm out.
SS: K. ❋ Dr. Smittens (2009)
