Im in RickCan we start a fellowship of the ITBS? I know a few people here are battling this right now.
Mine flared up again during a marathon last week. The Sedona marathon was beautiful. I had a great first half of the race, but started feeling knee pain at mile 10. At the turnaround I knew I was in trouble and at mile 14 I was walking. Walked/shuffled the rest of the way and tried to enjoy the scenery.
So why the knee pain? I do have a history of knee pain, but thought I had it solved. I had several good long runs (20+ miles) and a barefoot 13.1 before the marathon with no pain. It could have been the hilly course, but I have been running hills. Blame it on the Merrell Trail Gloves? Maybe, I have been mostly running barefoot and with huaraches.
My recovery plan: Research. Read through the older posts and articles about ITBS. Use rolling techniques and work on getting my hips more flexible. Strength training on my weaker muscles. Back off my mileage and no more races for a while. Barefoot as much as possible (I was going to do this regardless of how the marathon turned out). Just did 5k barefoot with no pain.
So who is in the club with me?
Rick W.
I went and got my gait analysis at a running store...texas running company. i told the guy working at the store about my injury, and he suggested trying some shoes with guidance (brooks pure cadence), as the analysis showed I am running with some pronation. more so on the leg that has the IT band injury as well as the achillies rupture (from a few years ago). I want to give the shoes a shot after my rest period, what do you think?
Will check this out!Scott just announced a free clinic called "pain free minimalist running", on his Facebook page.
What kind of advice do you anticipate receiving from a barefoot running society about motion control shoes?
The irony is somewhat thickhah, it honestly didn't occur to me my question was from the opposite end of the forum spectrum until you pointed it out.
I guess it's like asking about glock problems in a 1911 forum.
Zetti, my ITB flares up in certain shoes. Trail gloves cause it to flare up, but my NB 1400's do not. My old Saucony Omni 8's from pre-minimalist running makes it flare up horribly bad. It really does depend on the shoe.The irony is somewhat thick
In any case, what I am about to say is unsubstantiated (at least I didn't actually do any research about it), but some of the comments I have read suggest that footwear seems to aggravate or at times even "cause" ITBS. Not that it actually causes it, but I have heard of people developing IT Band inflammation when running in minimalist footwear....just a thought (also recognizing my bias).