For Connie:

Our insurance covers PT's treatment when there is a doctor's prescription
but it does not cover ART. Luke has an ART treatment for a knee problem
(one treatment and he was cured) a couple of years ago for $30. The last
treatment lasted almost an hour and twenty minutes for $45 (high school
discount). I think it's a great deal if it works of course.

Brian
----- Original Message -----
From: "zumbergc" <zumbergc@...>
To: <itbs@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, September 07, 2004 2:21 PM
Subject: [itbs] Re: A.R.T. for ITBS


> HI Brian,
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> I guess you might want to encourage your son to keep
> training in the water if its not causing him any pain.
> Keep doing all the stretches, the foam rollar,
> tennis ball, the stick on the sore parts of his
> itband, and plus look in the other areas of his
> legs, the quads, hams, butt for other trigger points,
> and areas of tightness. He may have more trigger points
> than he realizes. Some areas of my quads, and hip flexors
> are tight, and really don't cause any pain, maybe slight
> feeling of being tight, however they are causing some
> of my hip pain. As I work on getting those trigger points out,
> I've found my hips, itband feel better. So please
> be sure to check out all the trigger point areas onthe
> leg.
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> Plus, you might want to keep doing the ART stuff.
> Is that covered under insurance? Just wondering what
> the costs associated with it are.
> Connie
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> > After another week off I took him to an ART practitioner
> (ActiveRelease Therapy) and after the treatment he was amazingly
> pain free and could even walk down steps w/out pain or tightness in
> the ITB. He was told he could do aqua running heavily then
> gradually go back to running. He ran a mile last Saturday w/o any
> problem at all but last night tried to run again and the pain hit
> him at only 1/2 mile out into his run.
> >
> > I've checked on this forum and it looks like surgery isn't a
> guarantee for success and that healing takes 4-6 weeks (that would
> end his season for sure). He is icing, stretching, wearing a Patt-
> strap and doing leg lifts. Any other suggestions?
> >
> > Thanks for your help and good luck to everyone else suffering
> through this.
> >
> > Brian
> >
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