‘The IT band crosses your hip and your knee, so it works to stabilise both when we are moving around, including when running,’ explains Jodie Breach, national physiotherapy lead at Nuffield ...

By simply numbing your knee pain, cortisone shots act as a band-aid - covering up the real problem while harmful movement patterns and joint stress continue unchecked.

So far, works by two artists have been released on Band-Aids: that of 18th-century Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai (1760–1849) and 19th-century British artist William Morris (1834–1896).