By fern on Wednesday, August 23, 2000 - 11:44 pm:

Hello

Just want to ask if anybody here has ever been treatened with an overstreched iliotibial band?

By Gwen on Thursday, August 24, 2000 - 03:16 pm:

Fern, what are the symptoms? Not a condition I've heard of before and I'm always keen to widen my knowledge

By fern on Thursday, August 24, 2000 - 10:18 pm:

Hello

there is just no tension anymore in my iliotibial band. I had a pretty bad accident when i did longjumping one and an half years ago. When I came down my foot got stocked in little whole.
as my leg couldn`t move forward anymore the power of the whole bodyweight went just inte my knee that got hyperextended and also move completely out to the lateral side.
I had already 2*acl, lcl surgerys. And my lateral instability was still there at 15 ° flexion I kept on ckecking during one and a half year why my knee was still so shaky. Over the internet I found something about the iliotibial band and checked my one right away.
Well there is no tension in it. It just comes out when I reaélly contract my muscles.The problem is that normally strong muscles help you to stabalize the knee but the put a lot of their tension on the iliotibial band. I^m missing now the tension of my iliotibial band and the tension that the quadriceps muscles would put over the iliotibial band on my knee. I can tell you , my quadriceps muscles have never been that big before but the iliotibial band is just to long now.
On my other side I can feel my iliotibial band all the time and you can feel with your fingers how it reacts right away when i Lift my leg sideways. On my injured leg the part under my knee moves inside. It^s like I would have a two axe knee now. A few doctors confirmed me know what I found out. The problem is that almost nobody has experience with that kind of injury as it`s almost never happening. There is just one doctor who I found that is doing this kind of surgery and he`s in Cincinatti but I^m sitting here in Luxembourg/Europe.

I hope this could give you a little impression of the symptoms.

By Park Griffin on Friday, August 25, 2000 - 06:18 am:

I'm afraid that prolotherapy probably will not help that much. Generally iliotibial band problems are because of tightening. For others out there the general term for iliotibial band syndrome is called "runners knee". The only help prolo would accomplish would be this: If there is a surgery to tighten the iliotibial band and the ilitibial band attaches to bone at the ends, prolo could be done at the bone/iliotibial junction to strenthen the connection and possibly tighten the ends somewhat. The main thing is that prolo would be only a small part of the process. I'm starting to see prolo added to football player's procedures for ankle injuries ACL tears, etc... However, the prolo is added more to speed up recovery and increase the outcome of the conventional surgery. I'm really sorry about the injury. I pray that you find some relief.