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- From: jerry@bertie (Jerry Shurman)
- Subject: Re: Yet another ITB question?
- References: <1993Jan24.001709.81393@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu>
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- Organization: Reed College, Portland, OR
- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 01:17:05 GMT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan28.011705.2864@reed.edu>
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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.
-