IT Band Syndrome

Anybody dealt with it much? I had been training for a half marathon (about 3 months and 200 miles in). In general my left leg/hip never had an issue (right knee/foot had minor issues that ice/stretching kept in check) about a month ago around mile 9 on a 11 mile run my hip/knee on the left side started getting sore so I stopped about a 1/2 mile early. So for the next 10 days I did shorter runs with nothing over 4 miles but stupidly they weren't easy ones (some hills, beer mile, fast intervals, 2 mile PR.. etc). I appear to have pushed it until something finally snapped. Final day I went out for a 6 mile run but during the warmup there was discomfort in my hip, stupidly I didn't stop then but went on for the run, a few miles out I finally admitted it was a bad idea and ran back but I think the damage was already done (later that day I had severe hip pain in the skin/tendons around it. Hurt really bad if I poked it while walking.



Now my hip starts getting sore during a run of 2 to 3 miles (easy pace) and takes a day to recover. If I keep running the IT band gets really tight irritating my inner knee but it starts at the hip for sure (haven't ran over 4 miles at once since the 11m run). I took off 8 days once (did do a lot of walking on vacation) and within 4 miles my hip was sore again. Now I've taken off a week and started doing physical therapy/yoga to try to strengthen and loosen up the hip.



Those with ITBS, does this sounds consistent with your experience? Think its something else? Hip Bursitis seemed possible as well.

IT Band Syndrome