You may have been favoring the bad leg & putting more demand on the other leg,
and now with the aerobics, it's suddenly too much for the other leg. Since it's
just beginning, you might benefit from a cortisone shot in the "good" IT band.
When I started getting ITBS, it was in both knees, and would move back & forth,
and sometimes was worse in the R leg and sometimes in the L leg. One day I
could hardly climb the stairs to my office (one flight -- I insisted on climbing
stairs since, with the desk job, my exercise was limited), and that afternoon I
already had an appt set up to see my OS. By the time I got there, the pain had
stopped. It was very mysterious.

Whatever, he shot me in both knees, and it worked in the L knee and has never
come back (1998) but it didn't work in the R knee. At that time I don't think I
had the torn meniscus I later (2004) had fixed in the R knee, and 1999 was only
3 years after my LR surgery (where no CP showed up), so I don't think I had the
chondromalacia (CP) yet either. The R knee got better over time, ITB-wise, but
then those other problems came on and they caused sympathetic ITBS. Since the
meniscus surgery, the only time I get ITBS now is if I irritate the CP.

Ann


----- Original Message -----
From: sarah_scharff
To: itbs@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 2004 7:44 AM
Subject: [itbs] Making its way to the other leg?




Ann & Connie:

Thanks for your feedback about both the Gazelle and the trigger point
stuff. I am getting really terrified because I am starting to have
symptoms in what was my non-affected leg. My massage therapist told
me that he wasn't surprised because my muscles and nerves have gotten
so out of whack! Has anyone had it start in only one leg and make
its way to the other? I am really worried, as there was a time that
I couldn't put weight on the affected leg because the pain and
swelling was so bad. I am really scared that this will happen to the
other leg? I don't know if it has started to make its way into the
other leg because I have finally been able to do some low impact
aerobics?

Sarah

--- In itbs@yahoogroups.com, "ruby2zdy" <ruby2zdy@f...> wrote:
> Here's a good site on trigger points:
http://www.triggerpointbook.com/triggerp.htm . Sarcomeres, the
smallest contractile muscle tissue, become permanently contracted by
biochemical means when they're overused. The overuse may result from
an injury or repetitive motion (as in using a mouse).
>
> Ann
>







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