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Originally Posted by Dreamliner
Damn! I knew I shouldn't have thrown out that Cheryl Ladd sliding board my wife and I used years ago! But I must confess that I've been thinking more in terms of a need for a(b)ductor activation than adductor activation. I'll take this under consideration. thankfullly, I don't have ITB. Wish I did as PFPS seems a bit more squirrely in terms of treatment.
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Dream, it depends how the patella is tracking as to what muscles you want to strengthen vs stretching...if its tracking lateral (which can happen with a tight ITB because the ITB will pull it lateral) then you do want to strengthen VMO and adductors since those are medial muscles to help pull the patella back into the groove and keep it there...its like a tug of war between medial and lateral basically...
On the contrary, if the patella tracks medial, you want to strengthen lateral and stretch medial.....and just so ya know PFPS is a garbage term...it doesnt always mean patellar tracking issues...it could be chondromalacia (which could however be caused by patellar tracking), it could also be a patellar fracture or dislocation...it stands for patellafemoral pain syndrome which means any type of injury that causes pain in the knee joint can technically be incorporated under that abbreviation....
Hope this helps...