A Pain in the Side
Medgeeks with Andrew Reid
Medgeeks
4.8 • 997 Ratings
🗓️ 5 June 2023
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
Another week, another pain…in the side this time. We are referring to the side of the knee, iliotibial (IT) band syndrome. A common cause of lateral knee pain/injury from overuse.
Dr. Niket Sonpal will go over the anatomy of the IT band and its function and attachments. He mentions there are multiple factors that contribute to its development, such as tightness or changes in the IT band. Next we will go over the diagnosis and the treatments you could provide.
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| 0:00.0 | Now last week we talked about things that are a pain in the butt, |
| 0:03.1 | and yes there are a lot of them and we went over a couple of syndromes |
| 0:06.3 | that are actually more musculoskeletal in nature. |
| 0:08.6 | Well this week we're going to be jumping to a different part of the body |
| 0:11.3 | where it's basically a pain in the side. |
| 0:13.2 | Now when a patient comes to you and says, I have a pain in my side, that could be anything. |
| 0:16.9 | If it's on the right side and it's in the belly, we start worrying about a pendicitis. |
| 0:20.7 | If it's in the left or right flank, we start worrying about things like kidney stones. |
| 0:25.0 | If it's right-sided chest pain, then we start wondering about things like pneumonia, |
| 0:29.0 | costocondryitis, and of course everyone's always fearful of something cardiac but again that's less likely |
| 0:34.8 | and these are the major things we think about when people say they have pain in their |
| 0:38.4 | side but there are some lesser known causes of pain in the side of the legs more |
| 0:42.4 | specifically the lateral knee. |
| 0:44.6 | And so that's what we're going to be talking about this week, a common cause of lateral knee pain |
| 0:48.6 | specifically from overuse injury. |
| 0:50.7 | That's right, if you're following along, you're probably thinking of iliotibial |
| 0:53.9 | band's syndrome. An important cause of lateral knee pain with repetitive movement, so let's get into it. |
| 0:59.1 | I'm Dr. Nakedz Sunpol, your friendly neighbor internist and gastrantroologist and this week's podcast topic is IT band syndrome. Now when you think of knee pain it's actually more thought of to be osteoarthritis but there's a great deal of other causes of knee pain that may not be related to sort of wear and tear. |
| 1:27.0 | Knee pain has actually been shown to limit mobility and impaired quality of life in up to 25% of Americans. |
| 1:34.6 | Now the topic we're going to be talking about today |
| 1:36.4 | is Iliotibial band syndrome. |
| 1:38.6 | And it turns out it's a specific cause of lateral knee pain |
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