1. Iliotibial Band Syndrome A common injury of the Knee

2. What is Iliotibial Band Syndrome? ITBS is common knee injury in athletes that causes sharp pain on either or both sides of the knee

3. The Anatomy of the knee Lateral

4. More Anatomical Views

5. Anterior

6. A visible Iliotibial Band

7. Lateral View with muscular structure

8. Structures involved in the injury The structures that are involved in this injury are the iliotibial band, the femur, and the tibia.

9. Mechanisms of injury The reason for this injury is excessive friction between your iliotibial band and your knee cap. This can be caused by excessive running or a sudden increase in physical activity. This injury is often associated with wieghtlifting and court sports, like tennis and racquet ball, because of the rapid abduction and adduction of the lower leg that occurs in these activities.

10. Symptoms When evaluating a person that may have this condition things to look for are pain on the exterior of the knee, a pain that only occurs when running and stops instantly when you stop running or take short steps, and a pain that radiates up the side of the leg.

11. Special Tests Some special tests include The Thomas Test and the Ober Test. In both of these tests you are looking for tightness in the Iliotibial Band

12. How to do the Thomas Test.

13. How to do the Ober Test

14. Treatments P.R.I.C.E-protection, rest, ice, compression, elevation No running Anit-inflammatories Massaging the area of injury Stretching

15. Taping for ITBS

16. Rehab guidelines Stretching before running Return to running gradually do alternate exercises like swimming and low gear bike riding.

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