SO I had a gait analysis yesterday

[runaways]

I'm a mild heel striker, which I knew and have been trying to work on, and I'm a fairly mild pronator, which I also knew. I have really bad hip drop on both sides, so I'll obviously be carrying on with the strengthening exercises for my abductors and glutes that they gave me at PT.

The big thing is, my right leg is fucked the fuck up. I watched the video with her and my left leg comes down in a nice straight line when I strike. My whole right leg, on the other hand, is very externally rotated and makes a pretty big angle inward when I strike. So I'm not landing square on it, and it also exacerbates the pronation. So apparently this is a not uncommon effect of IT band syndrome, but I think I've been doing this for a long long time and am wondering if it didn't contribute to the ITBS in the first place.

So now I'm trying to focus on keeping my leg more internally rotated and I have no fucking clue what that is supposed to feel like. I might make H come take iphone videos of me running in the street so I can see what I look like when I feel like I'm correcting it. She's going to write up a report and email it to me next week, so maybe that will be helpful. Anyway, the whole thing was really interesting and if anyone has any advice, I'd love to hear it! I want to get this fixed so it doesn't screw me over this fall.

[fdcritt76]

I'm glad you got it looked at. I need to find a place to get an analysis done. My race photos show how much my right foot turns in when I run. That's the same side where my IT band bothers me. Now that I have some time this summer, I need to get it done. Good luck with your progress.

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I can't wait to have mine done especially since yours was so helpful! I find your comment about your right leg angling inward interesting since I realized during my last half (the one with all the horrible issues) my left leg/hip felt like it was falling inwards on me.

[shauni27]

Interesting! It sounds like you did the right thing by getting an analysis done. I don't even know where I would go to do that here...? PT?

[runaways]

May 30, 2013 13:20:29 GMT -5 shauni27 said:

Interesting! It sounds like you did the right thing by getting an analysis done. I don't even know where I would go to do that here...? PT?

Yeah that's where mine was. They recommended it and have someone who does them at various places around town throughout the week so I set it all up through them.

[katinthehat]

that's sounds super interesting- how much did you run with her? I need to get one done but the PT I saw once suggested I wait until I was back up to running 3+ miles before doing it

[runaways]

It was really only between 5 and 10 minutes. I warmed up for a few minutes and then she shot video laterally and from front and back. I don't think you'd have to be able to run three, but maybe for some reason I'm not thinking of? I did it at the Ironman in the med center.

[katinthehat]

oh cool. I've been going to Ironman out at Memorial Herman but that's just because my doc is out there. I might try to set one up in the med center since it's close by.

[hannahb]

This is not uncommon. Without looking at you, if you stay externally rotated, I would guess its due to tightness of those muscles. Are you stretching your gluts and piriformis regularly?

[hannahb]

But, if you externally rotate to clear your leg and then you collapse into vagus and pronaion (as opposed to staying externally rotated), that is usually due to weakness of your hip abductors and external rotators. They cannot counteract the effect of where your center of gravity hits while running. This is very common in people with ITB.