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What's up, podcast listeners? Thank you so much for checking out today's show. This is episode 14 of the Squat

University podcast. The goal with each

and every one of these shows is to bring you as much value-packed content to help you move better

in the gym and in life, decrease your bodies, aches and pains, and help you reach your true

athletic potential. Today we're going to talk about IT band pain and how you can successfully

kickstart the healing

process if this is an injury you are dealing with.

So therefore, the title of today's class will be fixing IT band pain.

Let's get right into it.

So what exactly is the IT band?

Well, it's actually a thick piece of fascial, which is basically like a dense piece of

connective tissue that runs from the top of your hip all the way to the outside or lateral

part of your knee. It connects to your tensor fascial latte or TFL muscle on the upper

part of your hip, and it also has connections to your glute max the big butt muscle on the

backside of your body the lateral hamstrings and the lateral quad so it basically runs down the

lateral or outside part of your leg and attaches to a bunch of muscles on its way down now here's a

big question a lot of people have how does it IT band pain occur? Now historically, this injury

has been thought to be more of a repetitive overuse injury, mostly found in runners. Typically,

those who have IT band syndrome, it will be someone who's a runner who will experience a lot

of pain on the lateral part of their need, the more they run.

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