Show Notes
Almost all of us foam-roll the ITB and tell clients it's tight. Here's a richer picture, built from the anatomy: the ITB is a thickening of the fascia that wraps your whole thigh, it behaves as both tendon and ligament, it helps stabilise and lock your knee, and it backs up your ACL, contributing an estimated 13 to 40 percent of the resistance to your shin sliding forward. Which raises a question about trying to make it "release".
PDF slides to accompany this episode here: https://breathe-edu-downloads.s3.amazonaws.com/IT%20band%20lecture%20slides.pdf
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Research paper cited in this episode: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11970409/
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