ITB Tightness and the Lateral Femoral Cutaneous Nerve

Let’s talk about the IT band often create the feeing of “tightness”.⁣
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So a better way to change that feeling is to free the nerve to glide. The most common area of entrapment is at the ASIS and inguinal ligament.⁣
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However you can chose many spots along the nerve to treat. How do you treat it?! That depends on your profession, your skill level, and the tool of your choice.⁣
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The technique and tool ultimately doesn’t matter as much a the principle and reasoning behind doing it.⁣
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Some options- a dynamic cup with a skin lift, a skin lift or stretch with your hand or a coregeous ball, a yoga tune up ball around the area of entrapment not directly on the nerve, exercises to widen the sits bones to change the tension over the inguinal ligament, a fine filament needle along the iliolata ligament or at the junction of the inguinal ligament and ASIS.⁣
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I have used them all with great results because again the technique does not matter as much as the reason and intention of my treatment!⁣
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Want to learn about both these neural based principles and gather new tools? Join me in the next REVitalize Mentorship program.