New study on IT band function

Interesting. Discuss!
http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2015/08/understanding-the-it-band/

Interesting idea though some of the thing said in the article strike me as a bit odd such as:

“IT band syndrome is a painful overuse injury that plagues many runners and cyclists, but its underlying cause is unknown.”
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Pretty animation, but so wrong.
Your foot almost kicks your butt when you run and the footstrike is simply not that far in front of the body otherwise it would simply slow us down.