Standing Isometric Hip Abduction

Standing Isometric Hip Abduction

Instructions   Stand with one side of your body directly next to a wall with shoulder and hip touching wall. Raise knee closest to wall to a comfortable level keeping body perpendicular to wall. Press knee into wall without moving your body. You should feel the...
Myofascial Release, Hip Flexors

Myofascial Release, Hip Flexors

Instructions   Start by lying on your back to locate the hip flexor. Feel your hip bones on either side of your belly, and slide your hand along the inside of the bone on the side you want to release. Exhale to relax your abdominal muscles and lift your foot off...
Supine Hip Flexor Stretch

Supine Hip Flexor Stretch

Instructions   Start lying on your back.  Bring both knees up to your chest to create a neutral spine.  Hold The right leg tightly to the chest to maintain your neutral spine while the left comes down to the floor. Engage the quadriceps on the left leg to...
Supine Hip Extension (Bridge)

Supine Hip Extension (Bridge)

Instructions   Start by lying on your back, with knees bent, feet hip width apart. Begin the exercise with a posterior pelvic tilt, and continue by rolling up, lifting one vertebrae at a time from the tailbone on up, keeping hips highest. Pause at the top,...
Side Lying Hip Flexion

Side Lying Hip Flexion

Instructions Start in side lying with your bottom leg bent at the hip and knee, top leg extended straight and reaching long through the heel. Make sure that you are truly lying on your side, and not settling back on your buttocks. Lift the top leg off the bottom leg...