You can not stretch ITB bands - the scientific truth

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5-6cm doesn’t require an itb release

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"In 2010, Irish researcher Dr. Eanna Falvey and her colleagues measured the mechanical effect of a basic IT band stretch (like the standard one illustrated at right) plus a more sophisticated stretch, and found virtually no difference: the IT band was effectively unaffected. And that was including knee flexion, in a stretch carefully applied to corpses by anatomists!1213 In an even more aggressive experiment in 2017, the IT band was completely excised, washed, frozen, thawed, and machine-stretched … and it still stretched only a few millimetres"

https://www.painscience.com/articles/iliotibial-band-syndrome-stretch.php#:~:text=The%20iliotibial%20band%20itself%20is,tendon%20in%20the%20human%20body.

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Quote from: Jaki19 on May 30, 2023, 02:22:37 PM5-6cm doesn’t require an itb release

Neither does 8, it just makes your life easier. If you dont have an ITB release, you're not gonna feel good at 6 cm lol

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Quote from: Jaki19 on May 30, 2023, 02:22:37 PM5-6cm doesn’t require an itb release

Lol, you're so wrong.

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Quote from: jerrytheman on May 30, 2023, 06:17:36 PMNeither does 8, it just makes your life easier. If you dont have an ITB release, you're not gonna feel good at 6 cm lol

wrong, did about 6cm on femurs, feel great, didnt need it. Neither did any of the other numerous patients from my surgeon, who did 6cm on femurs, need an itb-release. Its usually just the people who go overboard with lengthening and do 8+cm who complain about wide legs and other complications, that can only be remedied with addiontal itb-surgery.

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Quote from: LONFemurs2021 on May 30, 2023, 10:48:31 PMLol, you're so wrong.

hes actually correct

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I love how people assume you don't need something because they didn't need it.

Like ITB is required in pretty much all US doctors that go 6+cm target. It wasn't always like that, it's just that they realized a lot of patients had trouble with duck ass and wide legs they decided to require it for those target ranges. Why do you not go tell Dr Paley he's wrong instead of us lol.
Just to clarify. It isn't required, just make's your lengthening life easier because ITB is a very stubborn facia to stretch.

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Just look at the diaries of the LL patients, their wide legs and severe stifness began around 3cm and was much worse by 5=6

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Quote from: Siegfried on May 30, 2023, 11:14:13 PMwrong, did about 6cm on femurs, feel great, didnt need it. Neither did any of the other numerous patients from my surgeon, who did 6cm on femurs, need an itb-release. Its usually just the people who go overboard with lengthening and do 8+cm who complain about wide legs and other complications, that can only be remedied with addiontal itb-surgery.

You didnt get itb release when doing the surgery? I thought all surgeons perform it prophylactically

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Quote from: Siegfried on May 30, 2023, 11:15:15 PMhes actually correct

He literally is not, like, how ignorant can you be.
I did 6cm and would not be anywhere close to walking if I didn't have ITB release upon fixator removal, they were so tight it was ridiculous.