Has anyone had any experience with IT Band Syndrome or Biceps Femoris Tendonitis?..

[Adam Reyer]

If so, please let us know, as Mike Dietrich has had a terrible journey trying to treat what he thinks is IT Band Syndrome but, more recently, thinks that it might turn out to be Biceps Femoris Tendonitis and is, hopefully, on the brink of a breakthrough.

[Mike Dietrich]

Thanks Adam for getting this started.

Would love any thoughts anyone on the site or their extended circle of contacts may have. I'm at the point where I think I have to go back to confirm the original diagnosis to see what's really going on. While I can push hard on a treadmill, elliptical, bike etc. for an hour or more, I can't run more than 25 minutes outside on the trails before a sharp pain in the lateral right knee makes me stop. As soon as I start wlaking, the pain dissapears (not lessens mind you, totally dissapears)

[Adam Reyer]

FYI Mike/All, here are images of both the IT Band and the Biceps Femoris, which, in Mike's case, might end up being the root of the problem:

[Mike Dietrich]

Hey there:

Update on the never ending saga.

After yet another trail run cut short on Sunday - this time 28 minutes - I have decided to go back to the "traditional" medicine" route. It has been 2 years since the original inury and nothing has seemed to help (see profile for intervention techniques tried so far)

So, as I mentioned back in January, I'm beginning to wonder if the original diagnisis (IT Band Syndrome /Biceps Femoris) was the correct one. So off I go tomorrow to an M.D. to get referred to an orthopedic whatever. So we start again.

If anyone on this site knows of a great, and I mean GREAT, D.C. area orthopedist that understands kinetic chains and how all of this inter-relates, but who is also not above using "tradtional" medicine (MRIs etc). Let me know.

Will keep you up to date.

[Adam Reyer]

I wish I knew someone like that, Mike, but I've never met an orthopedist who went outside of the usual orthopedic boundaries (i.e. one who could really think beyond chortisone shots, surgery and/or conventional physical therapy). Did you ever go back to Andy Smith to work on the Biceps Femoris beyond that first or second time he started to work on it (I know he had worked on your IT Band for some time before that)?

[Michelle Barker]

I have been diagnosed with Biceps femoris tendonitis and have had no luck with treatment for 2 years 7 months, read my discussion posted today
Michelle Barker