Iliotibial Band Syndrome

March 6th, 2015

IT Band Syndrome What is the IT Band? The iliotibial (IT) band is fascial tissue that runs from your gluteals to your knee on the outside of your leg.  When thinking about muscles and fascia, think about a sliced orange.  As you slice an orange, the “orange” itself is the muscle and the white part

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Shin Splints

February 18th, 2015

Treatment for Shin Splints Shin splints are a nagging injury that discriminates against no one – young or old, athlete or not.  Shin splints are a painful condition that affects many active people.  They can start as just a nagging, achy pain during running and evolve into pain with walking and going about your day.

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Pulled Muscles: How to Prevent Them

January 22nd, 2015

Pulled Muscles We’ve seen it before.  You’re watching TV and you see the star running back come up lame, grab their hamstring and limp off the field.  Maybe you’re playing rec league softball and you see your 40 year-old buddy legging out a triple and he too comes up limping, grabbing his hamstring.   Pulled

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