Ithaca College

Associate Professor, Paul R. Geisler, EdD, ATC and Associate Clinical Professor, Todd Lazenby, MS, ATC from the Department of Exercise & Sport Science recently had a paper accepted for publication in the International Journal of Athletic Training & Therapy

 Iliotibial Friction Syndrome has long been the working paradigm used to explain and treat insidious onset, later knee pain in running based athletes. Despite little hard evidence to support the original pathoetiological model for the condition first put forth in the early 1990s, and even less for effective treatments of the condition, the sports medicine field has continued to work off this dated and ill-informed paradigm, with little success. Recent evidence from anatomical and imaging studies in particular have sparked interest in the condition, and combined with recent studies on effective treatment have led to the need for new paradigm of thought for iliotibial band based knee pain. Professors Lazenby and Geisler have have consolidated this new evidence along with their clinical experiences to pose a new working paradigm that better describes the pathoetiological development of insidious onset, lateral knee pain in runners, rowers and jumpers. The article, entitled "Iliotibial band Impingement Syndrome: An Evidence-Informed Clinical Paradigm Change" will be published in an upcoming, 2017 issue of the Intl J Athl Train Ther.