Help - advice needed!!
Only started running last summer. To cut a long story short, soon after, I got a groin injury which would not go away. Some months later, the problem was solved. As a result of over pronating and hip problems, I had some orthotics made. Got orthotics in early March, which only gave me approx. one month to get used to them before the London Marathon. Everything went OK, but since, I have got a bad pain in the side of my right knee soon after running. The day after, it was agony to walk down stairs. After reading up, these are classic symptoms for Iliotibial band syndrome.If any experts out there can give me any more advice on this problem I would appreciate it. Could it just be my body still getting used the orthotics? as I put in alot of miles for the marathon training very quickly, plus on the day, or could the cause be something else?
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Caused by quad muscle imbalance and lots of other things peculiar to me but mine started on the 23rd April 2002 - after I was running downhill (classic trigger if you've got naff quads)- and I think it was because of all the FLM training I'd done which had been quite intensive on my quads.
So many people assumed it was caused by the ITB but that's really loose - luckily for me.
Ultrasound - on a very regular basis - from the physio removes the pain /reduces the size of the bursa instantly each time it builds up.
I too wear orthotics - but started wearing them after I'd got this problem - and all I can say is that they haven't affected it at all!
So yes, Andrew - it could be ITB troubles - but it could also be something else.
No help at all really, sorry!!
Andrew - I note that you say "I have got a bad pain in the side of my right knee soon after running". This is very much NOT a classic symptom - ITBS will generally hurt while you run but the pain will reduce or even disappear straight away when you stop. The stairs thing is ITBS-like though - hard downstairs, easy up.
My (poorly-)educated guess is that you've had enough time to get 'used to' the orthoses, but they may not be quite right for you, and the sharp increase in workload found them out. I think the best thing I can suggest is that you go back to your podiatrist, and quite possibly a sport physio too.