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Article #1611Re: Yet another ITB question?
From: Jerry Shurman
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 01:17
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 01:17
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<Lots of stuff deleted> Here's my IT story for anyone interested. After years of knee pain and injuries and three knee operations, I got diagnosed by a sports chiropractor as having way tight ITBs and sent to a massage therapist. The results were *amazing*. I've gone without injury since then (three years now), increased my mileage and held it steady at 55 a week, dropped my PRs way down, etc. This masseur does something called deep tissue massage. It hurts like holy hell at first, causing one to scream out loud and thrash about on the table like a gaffed salmon, but after several sessions one's muscles start to loosen up and get used to being smoothed out, and it actually feels rather pleasant. Really. I usually fall asleep during the process now if I don't have any big new knots in there. It took about six sessions (30 or 60 minutes each) to loosen things up enough to get me running again, and since then I've kept injury-free by going in for maintenance every two to four weeks. Anyway, I recommend it highly.
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Newsgroups: rec.running Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!charon.amdahl.com!amdahl!rtech!sgiblab!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!rpi!usenet.coe.montana.edu!news.u.washington.edu!henson!reed!news From: jerry@bertie (Jerry Shurman) Subject: Re: Yet another ITB question? References: <1993Jan24.001709.81393@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu> Sender: news@reed.edu (USENET News System) Organization: Reed College, Portland, OR Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 01:17:05 GMT Message-ID: <1993Jan28.011705.2864@reed.edu> Lines: 25