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General Anatomy
The two obvious aspects of the hip flexor are being big and unseen – as it lies behind the intestines inside the pelvis.

Hip Flexor arises out of the side processes of all 5 lumbar vertebrae, attaches to the side of sacrum and forming the inside wall of the hip bone.

Hip Flexor inserts into the inside top of the thigh bone – the lesser trochanter.

When It’s Squishy
hip flexor stabilizes and mobilizes hip and low back. The muscle acts as a main brake keeping us from collapsing with every step.

Lying almost fully within the core it is a major source of core strength.

When Not Squishy
hip flexor becomes HIP-A-TIGHTIS. HIP-A-TIGHTIS creates a forward stooping posture no amount of shoulder straightening will fix.

This dragon refers pain to the low back and robs core strength for balance and quickness.

 Getting Hip-A-Tightus

Past Trauma –Past falls, pulls and poor habits such as running and playing basketball without properly warming leave residue overconstrictions in the muscle. The traumatic parts of your past get fossilized in muscle until those fossils are removed

Overuse Injury Active Overuse –Hip flexor catches us and slows us down every step we take. Hip-A-Tightus materializes from jumping and exploding actions in tennis, squash, basketball and soccer. Stopping the hips in sports is a team effort and hip flexor is a big player in the team – even faithfully doing your Ab exercises can overhwhelm the hip flexors bringing on Hip-A-Tightus

Passive Overuse –The hip flexors are part of the “core” so whenever we conjure our core together to use our arms or legs to lift, push or kick we put the hip flexors to work and risk Hip-A-Tightus

Disuse Injury –sitting is big stressor of the Hip Flexors keeping them held in a shortened position – Hip-A-Tightus is constant in modern work life

Emotional State -of course, negative emotions stress all the muscles, and negative emotions are felt most at our most vulnerable points

Trauma Begets Trauma –Again we see one injury sets us up for the next one – anything compromising posture will add more stress to the hip flexors as these muscular workhorses are in place to hold us up