It's a weird piece of meat, a sort of connective tissue with muscles attached. If you're a runner it may have at some point caused you grief, and you might have then rolled it out with a large and overpriced foam cylinder.
The paper below presents some of the first good evidence that the IT band stores and returns elastic energy during running- like the Achilles tendon-- increasing efficiency. These things didn't evolve for walking alone, folks.
Paper here:
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Andrew_Biewener/publication/279988265_The_capacity_of_the_human_iliotibial_band_to_store_elastic_energy_during_running/links/5734596908ae298602de7519.pdf
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