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Foam Roll IT Band

By Dr. Allison Feldt, PT, DPT 1 min read

All right. Gonna show you guys a foam roll technique in order to help loosen up the legs. This is good for knee pain, hip pain. If you’re a runner or you’re training for a triathlon, this is kind of a must-do to keep your tissue healthy. So, here we go. So, you can put it underneath the hip, and you can go kind of all the way to that bony prominence, and that’s your greater trochanter. And then you wanna take the foam roll all the way down to the knee, and you stay on the outside part of the leg. And you can go forward, you know, roll anterior, roll posterior, which is backwards, and just help loosen up that IT band. This is great. You can also do some active releases of just bending the knee and straightening the knee on the foam roll, and this is intense, but well worth your time and energy and some just great self-treatment techniques. All right, take care.

Dr. Allison Feldt, PT, DPT, founder of Body Motion Physical Therapy

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Dr. Allison Feldt, PT, DPT

Allison is a pelvic floor physical therapist and the founder of Body Motion PT in Edmonds. A mom who knows the aftermath of pregnancy and birth firsthand, she's on a mission to help women restore their core and pelvic floor at every stage of life.

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