Ithaca College

Associate Professor, Paul R Geisler, EdD, ATC and Clinical Associate Professor, Todd Lazenby, MA, ATC from the Athletic Training Education Program in the Department of Exercise & Sport Sciences just published an evidence-informed alternative paradigm for an age old clinical problem in sports medicine in the May edition of International Journal of Athletic Therapy & Training

For decades, insidious lateral knee pain in runners, cyclists and rowers has been considered as a "friction" syndrome due to a biomechanical "roll over" of the tendon over underlying a boney prominence on the femur.  This dominating clinical paradigm has led to poor outcomes and many frustrated athletes suffering from chronic pain with activities requiring repeated flexion/extension of the knee. Associate Professor, Paul R Geisler, EdD, ATC and Clinical Associate Professor, Todd Lazenby, MA, ATC took up the problem by reconsidering the paradigm of thought, in particular its anatomical and biomechanical origins. Constructed from considerable evidence from cadaveric and imaging research, biomechanical studies, and recent outcomes research, Professors Geisler and Lazenby articulated a new paradigm for the problem, called "Iliotibial Impingement Syndrome" and published their evidence-informed model in the May (V.22, No.3, 2017) edition of International Journal of Athletic Therapy & Training.