This IT band stuff is really frustrating me. It was doing so great, but I just pushed too much today--an eight-mile run WITH hills. It would be easy to say, "Well, I'm just overtraining"--if I didn't have a half-marathon in seven weeks.
So I just spent some money on Amazon (thankfully only a bit since I had leftover gift certificate money and bought one book used) so that I can attack this thing on multiple fronts. I'll report back later on how all this works for me.
Here's what I ordered:
Since I'm so in love with my foam roller, I think this book will be right up my alley. It should help me identify trigger points I don't know about it, and should teach me more about working them out.
This book has excellent reviews (as does the first book) and looks like it'll give great, practical advice on getting my muscles healthy and preventing injury. (This one will take longer to arrive, as I ordered it used.)
While I'm hoping the principles in the books above will help me get permanently past this IT band stuff and other annoying aches and pains, sometimes before a problem is totally fixed, you just need to get through a workout with less discomfort. KT Tape will hopefully help me on my long run next weekend so that I don't end up with IT band pain at the end of it like I did today. I've heard great things about this stuff, and while I know it doesn't work for everyone, I hope it works for me.
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I have that first book but I can't say how good or not it is. I really haven't put the time into working through any of it. But it was highly rated on Amazon, as you said, plus @chixor said it was definitely recommended in her massage school. She may have met the author but I can't remember.
But good for you going at this. I hope you can figure it out. You seem to be doing things right so I'm sure you will be just fine with it.
I used Trigger Point Therapy for a problem I had three years ago with my shoulder. It's the only time I used it and it appeared to work. The problem went away.
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