{"id":1736,"date":"2009-09-04T03:20:35","date_gmt":"2009-09-04T08:20:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/?p=1736"},"modified":"2010-03-02T03:29:12","modified_gmt":"2010-03-02T09:29:12","slug":"rehab-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/?p=1736","title":{"rendered":"Rehab 2.0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Several months ago I embarked on an unsuccessful quest to rehab my right leg so I could run again. I was diagnosed with iliotibial band syndrome (ITBS), a condition marked by pain on the outside of one&#8217;s knee that appears during running or cycling. For me, it appeared gently after a few minutes of running and gradually got worse until I gave up. Weeks of physical therapy didn&#8217;t help. Rest didn&#8217;t help. A cortisone shot to my knee left me limping for days instead of giving me some relief. Finally I gave up and accepted the possibility that despite running successfully for years in high school and college, perhaps &#8220;Old&#8221; Andy just wasn&#8217;t going to be a runner. <\/p>\n<p>I never liked that idea, so I&#8217;m putting together a new rehab program after talking to friends and doing more research. Rehab 2.0 has three ingredients:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Glucosamine\/chondroitin\/MSM supplements, which help rebuild connective tissue. My friend Alexis found a liquid version that I might try.<\/li>\n<li>A foam roller to loosen up my IT band and break up the embedded scar tissue and calcium deposits. This is cheaper and more convenient than active release technique (ART), a special type of deep-tissue massage that does the same thing (and is just as painful!).<\/li>\n<li>A new exercise called <a href=\"http:\/\/onemillionruns.blogspot.com\/2006\/10\/walt-reynolds-itb-special.html\" target=\"_blank\">Walt&#8217;s Special<\/a> that both stretches and strengthens the muscles at the top of the IT band.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Will this plan work? I don&#8217;t know, but I have to keep trying. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several months ago I embarked on an unsuccessful quest to rehab my right leg so I could run again. I was diagnosed with iliotibial band syndrome (ITBS), a condition marked by pain on the outside of one&#8217;s knee that appears &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/?p=1736\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1736"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1736\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}