Tight hip flexors? Do this!

Hey, Life Aligned Chiropractic Family. Today I wanna share with you the hip flexor stretch. I’m gonna put it very simple for you guys, so it’s not hard for anyone to do it. I am very inflexible to the most part. So I wanna show you what works for me also for other people. So you could do it either way you want, but the hip flexor or the ilio SOAs, soaz muscle attaches in the front of the spine along the side there.

Attached to the top of the pelvis, kind of towards the back and to the inner thigh there. And what it does is this, so all people that sit all the time for a living desk work, you know, running machinery. We’ll have tight hip flexes because you’re constantly in this position. So this stretch is really beneficial to most people.

I like to do it with something holding just for stability. Of course, at my table you could do a wall, a counter, whatever you wanna do. But I will hold one area here just to stabilize. And what you wanna do is you want step back with one foot, but make sure the foot is pointing straight. So you have to actually look and what you gotta do is a little bit thrust forward.

That’s it. A little bit thrust forward. Some of you might have to stagger, stagger your legs a little bit longer and you should feel it right in that groin area. Good stretch. Hold for about 10 seconds. Do about three to five of these. Uh, they’re really good. And just switch sides and make sure once again that both feet are facing straight forward.

The other modification of this, which doesn’t work for me ’cause my uh, quads are a little bit tight alright, is you could get down on one knee, you could put a towel or a pillow underneath you and lean forward into that so you feel a stretch there. You could switch legs. Make sure the foot’s facing forward and lean forward and feel that stretch.

That’s it. That’s the hip flexor. Hopefully this helps out. Take care guys.