If you've worked on strengthening your glutes, stretching your TFL, etc. and
still are having trouble keeping ITBS away or are still feeling like your form
is "lopsided", check for trigger points in your inner thigh muscles (adductors).
The reason I say this is that despite all the work I was doing on the above,
working on my running form etc. I still have been feeling that the glute medius
on the left (problem side) just wasn't working as well as the one on the right
when walking or running and that the hip just didn't feel quite right. On
Saturday, I had some random pain that I had occasionally had before and realized
that in my trigger point book I had seen something that could cause similar
pain, so I looked it up and went poking around that muscle (adductor magnus).
OUCH!!! After working on the area, walking felt more normal. My conclusion is
that the tight adductor, by pulling the femur inward, is throwing off the
alignment of the hip and making it hard for the glutes to work right (because of
being in a constant tug-of-war with the adductor and because of the altered
position). Time will tell if this is correct, but now I am wondering if that
adductor trigger point might have been what STARTED the whole thing! Thinking
back, I know I had it before getting ITBS. Anyone else had an experience like
this?