Originally Posted by
Carbonfiberboy
Which is a bit weird in that the pes anserine (subsartorial) bursa on the inside of the knee is not shown. You could be right about the connection to saddle height, though I've never seen that problem. But could be, rocking the hips like you say.
This comes back to how much of human anatomy is still not very well known (reminds me of the
new knee ligament that was discovered in 2013). In any case, it is (or was) generally assumed that there is a bursa underneath the IT band since that's a logical place for a bursa to be found, but some fairly recent research found no bursae there (
source,
source,
source). Yet other fairly recent research did find an inflamed bursa when treating IT band syndrome (
source). I guess in the end it comes down to semantics, and the main point that I think we agree on remains the same: it's the tissues underneath the IT band, not the band itself, that get injured.