The natural knee brace – The IT Band

It is sometimes difficult for us to accept that nature has everything in it for itself. But the truth is ‘YES IT DOES’. Today in this story I would like to throw light on how the “Illio Tibial Band’ shortly called ITB acts like a natural brace to the knee and how, when not properly trained, could be detrimental to the health of the knee.

Knee Pain

Knee pain is on the rising high irrespective of age and gender. As lifestyle becomes more and more sedentary and stressful, issues of such sort do crop up to add on to the existing misery. Conventional medicine primarily focus on administering pain killers and anti-inflammatory drugs which prove beneficial in the initial stage to come out of the acute pain but the question is what is the long term perspective to prevent relapses?

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