-ups to the outer side of your shoe. Exercises which stretch the band can help, while ultrasound or a cortisone injection should cure the problem. Although massage is often recommended, it sometimes makes the inflammation worse. Can you run through it?/Recovery time

is rarely required beyond observation at surgical removal.What else could it be?A tear of the collateral ligament over the cyst or an iliotibial friction band problem should be fairly easy to rule out.Medical treatmentSelf-treatment is impractical – medical

with discomfort in the outer buttock and thigh. Some of the discomfort may well be due to tautness of the iliotibial band, whose other end we met on the outer side of the knee. All this muscle is contained within the inelastic stocking-like fascia lata

to be iliotibial band syndrome (an inflammation of the long fibrous tissue that extends from the hip along the side of the upper leg.You should… stop and stretch the area (try the standing stretch in which you cross your feet and extend one side of your body