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Re: Fuk my IT band
« Reply #25 on: August 30, 2015, 11:03:17 PM »
Yall and your it band woes
For Christ sakes loosen your quads and adductors
Improve your god damn terminal knee extension
Strengthen your glutes
Improve your hip external internal rotation
Improve your t spine mobility
Roll a golf ball under your foot
And loosen strengthen your hamstrings and do more than just lying hamstring curls

Where did you learn all this ???

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Re: Fuk my IT band
« Reply #26 on: August 31, 2015, 12:24:09 AM »
I have a pain that goes from my left arse cheek, down the outside of left leg and finishes top of outside calf. Its quite a dull aching pain and flares up when I exercise or sit in cramped conditions. I do lots of running, cycling and running with weight.

Does this sound like IT band issues?

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Re: Fuk my IT band
« Reply #27 on: August 31, 2015, 02:08:09 AM »
I have a pain that goes from my left arse cheek, down the outside of left leg and finishes top of outside calf. Its quite a dull aching pain and flares up when I exercise or sit in cramped conditions. I do lots of running, cycling and running with weight.

Does this sound like IT band issues?


That or leg cancer. See a pro. Not getbig.

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Re: Fuk my IT band
« Reply #28 on: August 31, 2015, 05:29:15 AM »
I have a pain that goes from my left arse cheek, down the outside of left leg and finishes top of outside calf. Its quite a dull aching pain and flares up when I exercise or sit in cramped conditions. I do lots of running, cycling and running with weight.

Does this sound like IT band issues?

sciatica?
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Ken Fresno

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Re: Fuk my IT band
« Reply #29 on: August 31, 2015, 08:03:56 AM »
sciatica?

Yeah, that's what i was thinking. Got told by a physio during a brief session it was IT related, but from what Ive read sounds like it could be sciatica.

Like Wooo says should go and have a proper consultation.

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Re: Fuk my IT band
« Reply #30 on: August 31, 2015, 02:03:37 PM »
Probably not sciatica.

More than likely piriformis syndrome.

Look up piriformis and lacrosse ball.


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Re: Fuk my IT band
« Reply #31 on: September 01, 2015, 12:59:06 AM »
Probably not sciatica.

More than likely piriformis syndrome.

Look up piriformis and lacrosse ball.



Cheers mate. Just looked that up and it does sound similar to what i've got. Off to see the physio this week.

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Re: Fuk my IT band
« Reply #32 on: September 01, 2015, 04:36:53 AM »
Someone more skilled and who is a professional at training/prehab is Coach.

I believe he can point you in the right direction.

The lacrosse ball has saved my squatting and golf.

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Re: Fuk my IT band
« Reply #33 on: September 01, 2015, 04:42:45 AM »
check out this Reha centre   ;D

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Re: Fuk my IT band
« Reply #34 on: September 01, 2015, 09:13:35 PM »
Someone more skilled and who is a professional at training/prehab is Coach.

I believe he can point you in the right direction.

The lacrosse ball has saved my squatting and golf.

Can you elaborate?  What was your problem, and what did you do to fix it?

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Re: Fuk my IT band
« Reply #35 on: September 02, 2015, 07:28:44 AM »
Can you elaborate?  What was your problem, and what did you do to fix it?

It was interesting.
I was very tight in the hips, but if I warmed up properly, I could squat damn near ass to ankle with perfect form.
I had pain in my right SI joint, and pain in and behind my left knee. 
I could play golf, and play it fairly well, but would be tight as hell in the morning.
I would simply not listen to the mantra of:  "This is what happens when you are getting older" (I was in my mid thirties, and am now quickly approaching 40).
A powerlifter I know said:  "Dude, you probably have periformis syndrome."
I have always been an avid strength trainee since I was 16 (I played competitive Division I tennis).
He told me to foam roll, and that worked for a while.
I got a number of deep tissue massages and that was a very good symbiotic relationship between massage, foam rolling, training and chiropractic (chiro I would go to like once a month or when I felt it necessary).
Then a very good deep tissue massage therapist told me about the lacrosse ball (plenty of vids on youtube).  It is painful as a mother, but it works.
I haven't looked back and have been squatting pain free and am nowhere near as stiff as I used to be.