When you’re trying to eliminate hip pain (and in reality, this could be any part of your body) you must be assessed for muscle imbalance.
For example, if you look at the image below, notice, how the muscles surround the bone. Depending on what part of the leg the muscles are located at, they could be Flexors, Extensors, Abductors or Adductors.
Generally, Hip Flexors balance out Hip Extensors, Hip Abductors balance out Hip Adductors.
The minute someone pulls harder on one side, the opposing person must expand energy to pull back more to prevent the chair from going too far forward or sideways.
Same thing is true with the leg! Groups of muscles hold on to your leg bone. If you want perfect balance, you need all muscles equally participate.
In an unbalanced case, the muscles must maintain balance by constantly contracting. You end up with some muscles chronically bracing to maintain this suboptimal balance.
This constant contraction of the muscles creates an energy leak. This leak over time will end up manifesting as tightness, weakness, or even dull aches and pains.
In order to balance out the leg muscles, people often resort to squatting. Squatting is great, it’s one of the seven primal movements. But do you every change up your squats? Or do you always target the same muscles?
Click here to watch video and learn to how to target all your leg muscles!
WHAT’S THE NEXT STEP?
Fixing your body’s alignment issue will take more than one exercise. We need to address strength, body awareness, certain stretches need to be incorporated and better biomechanics need to be learned.
In order to determine what combination of exercises you’ll benefit the most, the first step is to sign up for a complimentary (in-studio) musculo-skeletal assessment!
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CALL 619-400-9252 to schedule your complimentary assessment!
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