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Re: Yet another ITB question?

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From: Jerry Shurman
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 01:17
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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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