Thanks for that - useful info.
I am a believer of 'taping up' your injuries.
How do you tape the knee exactly.
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Thanks for that - useful info.
I am a believer of 'taping up' your injuries.
How do you tape the knee exactly.
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Oh - I forgot to add - something interesting physio had me do - lying on my side doing side clams (keeping feet together and raising knee). interestingly was fine on my uninjured leg - but my injured leg could hardly raise my knee at all. He reckoned that some injury in the dim and distant past had caused me to stop using my gluts correctly on my injured leg, which cause other muscles to overcompensate, as a result that leg wasnt working as it should which caused the hip displacement which contributed to the knee prob. Give the side clams a go and see what happens - maybe you got a dodgy butt too!
Right I'll shut up now :D
Taping the knee - hard to explain - as when he showed me I didnt get it the first time. And I suspect it'll be different for whatever knee injury your physio suspects...
Used Leukotape type stuff
http://www.physio-med.com/modules/sh...id=4&rangeid=0
Will describe to you what I do - but please dont do it without someone showing you who knows what they're doing
put the white one one first as it acts as a base, covering just front half of the knee (the brown climbers tape stuff adhesive can be quite irritatin) as you put it on push your kneecap towards the inside of your leg - (put the tape over the top half of your kneecap). then apply the brown stuff over the top - again for each one, pushing your kneecap inwards whilst you apply it so as you fix it its "pulling" the kneecap in. Do this for 3 layers of brown. Then a lightweight tubi grip over everything to provide some light support
Again - my problem was the kneecap was maltracking (From what other people have said I guess this is the common Patella Femoral) and we were trying to get it back into place. so this may not be the right thing for you if all you have is ITB... :D
Well i'll google it and see what i can find.
Thanks alot.
I found this - is it what you do?
Since the physio people at my uni still havent contacted me totay i went for a massage on my knees to see if that helps.
The woman started fiddling around with my knees and said she think she isnt the right person for me so gave me a card for a specialist she knows.
She gave me 5+ minutes on each knee for free though. She gave the ITB a good going over and it bloody hurt on the quiet.
She said she had never seen knees like it - they are like bands of steel. :(
She tried to get my legs to relax and i just couldnt do it at all. She said i seem to come across a very tight person.....sumed me up in one really.
Seems to have loosened them up abit though.
It's a great line from the physios isn't it - "I've never seen one quite like it"....
As a result of an old climbing accident involving a few minor spinal injuries I have a large patch on the outer of my right thigh which has less sensation than normal eg I can't discriminate 2 point touch etc. So the lower edge of the area involved includes the outer edge of my knee and my ITB - which I have been running on for years. Went to the University Physio department last week and they were gobsmacked - pulled in all the students to have a feel of my ITB saying things like "that's incredible, you'll never feel one like that again". In the end when I was doing some stretches they pulled in half the department to gawp at my levels of inflexibility! Lots of good natured giggling and pointing (which I find offputting in my shorts :eek: ) Of course, for me, it doesn't hurt so I assumed all was well and now have an ITB that you could moor a medium sized cruise ship to.
Sadly the rest of my knee is a collection of tendonitis and intracapsular scarring and hurts like hell when walking up and down hill let alone running. The top line of my physio instructions says "NO RUNNING" for now.... so it's pies and stretches for me now :mad:
Get well soon
B
Was reading through my running log book thingy last night.
I started writing that "outside on right knee painful" two days after The Roaches. So therefore i guess the race did was the catalist in all this. - Fancy word for me that.:rolleyes:
Can anyone point me to a link on the internet that shows some good streches to do to prevent ITB?