#1 Absolute Best Psoas Muscle Stretch For Tightness - Dr Ekberg

Hey I'm Dr. Ekberg and I'm going to show you  a psoas stretch. The psoas muscle is the hip  

flexor it's one of the strongest muscles in the  body but it also gets very often short due to all  

the sitting that we do it's difficult to stretch  because it crosses two joints it goes from the  

upper portion of the thigh half of it attaches  to the front of the pelvis and the other half  

attaches to the spine so in order to stretch  it properly we need to tilt the pelvis back  

and flatten the spine otherwise we're not really  getting at the muscle so here's one way you can  

do that you can do this on a couch or a bed or  anything of appropriate height and the trick here  

is to get the the front of the back leg separated  as far as possible and then do not arch the back  

but the trick is to tilt the pelvis pull in your  stomach and flatten the back so that you get the  

straight stretch at the front of the hip to a  lot of people when you drop your back and arch  

it like this they think that they're stretching  it more but they're actually stretching less so  

what you want to do this is not a good stretch but  this is and the difference is tilting the pelvis  

and flattening your back and then you just hold  that for 10-15 seconds at a time now what you can  

do is push the knee this mean down into the table  and you hold that contraction for ten seconds and  

then you relax and you stretch it some more then you switch sides always do it on both  

sides but if one side is much stiffer then you  start and end with that side that's it thank you