No running for 14 days after injection and ice for 30 min every 12 hrs.
Group 1: corticosteroid injection (methylprednisolone acetate 40 mg) Group 2: placebo injection
Using a visual analogue scale for pain perception, significant () decrease in pain during running in group 1
Local corticosteroid infiltration effectively decreases pain during running in the first 2 wks of treatment of ITBS Group 1 avg. of 53.6% decreases in pain from day 0 to 14