@hckynutjohn wrote:
Hi sfnative,
Since I cannot relate to children or grandchildren? I can however relate to my many issues with ITBS(tensor fasciae latae).
Mine first surfaced as a "maybe knee issue/maybe hip issue/maybe back issue". Back "in the day" before Sports Medicine Doctors there was little to nothing known about ITBS. What was finally known was "what it was", but what to do about it?
Since this primarily bothered me when running(not skating) I began my own stretching exercises to see if I could, if nothing else, reduce the pain of this thing. Finally found a couple that worked well for me.
I was seeing a friend of mine(who has since died)that was a Chiropractor, as he was able to keep my 3 crushed Cervical Vertabrae positioned when needed to reduce, sometimes completely eliminate my neck pain.
He had a lot of patients at the time he was working on for knee type of issues. I asked him if he was seeing any with ITBS(tensor fasciae latae) and he said yes. He told me he was not having good results using EMS treatments, so I told him about the exercises that helped me.
So he decided to have his patients try these after I showed him how exactly I did them to find relief. From that point on he would call me every time he had a patient with ITBS and have me refresh him as to these exercises.
He was very much into sports and that is why I sought him out many years before he died. He kept my neck issues to a minimum with a pretty simple adjustment. I once met him at an ice rink where he has taken his kids to public skatin. I was having some neck issues at the time. Took me over to a bench and "crack" and it wasn't long before my problems were gone.
Anyways, just wanted to let you, and your husband to know I know enough about ITBS to know how it feels. I had a running friend that thought I was making up the name of "illotibial band syndrome", so he chose to call it "itty bitty band syndrome". I told him if he had this it wouldn't see so "itty bitty".
As fate would have it, it struck him and he came to me about it. After I got done "picking on him for being a baby with the itty bitty", I showed him what worked for me. He never again referred to ITBS with those itty bitty words. :-)
On another recent note! I had to take my wife to the ER in the middle of last night. She was having the same terrible pain she had several times before when she needed emergency surgeries for twisted and blocked intestines.
She had emergency surgery(open incision)last October and then 5 weeks later the same thing, but her doctor was able to fix this via scope, but she was still healing from the open surgery.
They did a contrasting CAT Scan and found the intestine was not twisted or completely blocked, so her Bariatric Surgeon wants to see if it will heal without surgery.
She will be seeing him Monday or Tuesday for another CAT Scan and see what happens from there. She is now "dog sitting" so not at home until Monday. I told her to call me if she gets in trouble, or just head to the ER if she is able to drive.
Wish your husband well for me and I hope you are doing well. Best to both of you, and those grandkids of course,
It is just past midnight here and I really need to get to bed, but wanted to thank you for responding and sharing so much with me.
I'm so very sorry Cindy is once again ill and in the hospital. I hope and pray that she will indeed come out of this without requiring surgery.
Will come back on Saturday for a further entry. Take care my friend.
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