Hi,

I'd love to hear the advice you receive because I am your other half! I have the same symptoms you have, except that they are on my left side. I wear orthotics to correct the pronation and even had knee surgery a few years ago because I tore a plica in my knee doing lunges. The lunges were perfect form, according to my trainer, but perfect for me wasn't perfect to him. Because of my pronation, "perfect form" tore my knee up.

I recently started getting weekly massages and this seems to help the tightness some. I am also receiving acupuncture to help with the tightness. Acupuncture has probably been more helpful than massage therapy. I started wearing my orthotics with my Sidi's to see if they would help the tightness but honestly, I haven't noticed a difference. I usually wear a heal lift in my left shoe but don't in my bike shoes because I don't pedal with my heal so it shouldn't make a difference either way.

My chiropractor acts like I am such an odd case but here I have a twin! Our symptoms are nearly identical and we even wear the same running shoes!

I'm looking at new bikes and would love to know what to look for that could help my ITB tightness.

Kenda