Beaches Toronto Chiropractor - Hip Flexor - Health and Wellness tips

Описание: Some tips on care for the hip flexor - very important to the low back mechanics from Dr. Kelly Robazza of the Beaches Helth Group In Toronto.

With prolonged sitting or driving these muscles are often chronically contracted and shortened.

Hip Flexor issues are one of the most common complaints we see in our office, as it is very important to the low back mechanics.

The reason they are called the hip flexors is because when that muscle contracts it will either bend your trunk or it will flex your hip forward.The biggest problem with these muscles is being overworked or prolonged sitting and prolonged driving.
So many people have contracted and shortened those muscles over time making the hip flexor muscles chronically tight and short.

We treat by releasing some of the tension by trapping the muscle in a shortened position and then dragging the muscle underneath a contact point through a range of motion. Each time we make a pass over the hip flexor it gets a little bit longer and a little bit easier to stretch. We will also fatigue the muscle by doing a P & F stretch resetting the tension on the muscle by having the patient fatigue the muscle and then we stretch it again.

There are many home care stretches that can help the hip flexor muscle. For example, lunge forward straightening your back leg and bring your arm forward and up, turn and bend back as demonstrated in the video. In this stretch you are pushing your hip through the muscle and stretching to lengthening that hip flexor.

If you are a siting person at work or a driver this will be a great stretch to lengthen that hip flexor muscle.