TIGHT OR SORE TFL (OUTER HIPS) STRETCH AND STRENGTH! 🔧 📝 Use this workout to stretch and strengthen those tight TFL’s. This is the muscle on the outside or the hips and contributes to internal and external rotation of the hips. Tough one to get too sometimes! ⚒️ DON’T NEGLECT THE TFL! Workout ⬇️: 🔥 STRETCH SET: 2 Rounds 1️⃣ Roll out to loosen up the tissue x 1 min es 2️⃣ Wide active pigeon x 30 sec es 🔥 STRENGTHEN SET: 3 rounds 3️⃣ Table top side leg lifts 4️⃣ Wall hip circles 🔥 STRENGTH AN

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Getting the TFL to let go requires a triplanar approach. The TFL can be a pesky muscle but, ultimately, it’s just a single muscle that works in tandem with many other muscles and its orientation is dictated by joint position, so just stretching it or foam rolling it won’t reduce its tendency to tighten up. The TFL is concentric when the hip is internally rotating, flexing and aBducting, but this doesn’t consider the influence of the orientation and rotation of the pelvis. In a pelvis that is tur

Tight ITB and TFL are stemming from compressed ribcage on the opposite side. We all have oblique lines throughout our body that we call patterns. #pelvicfloor #pelvichealth #pelvicfloorphysicaltherapy #pelvicfloorpt #pelvicfloorpta #pelvichealthnj #pelvichealthphysio #madisonnj #ITB # ribcage #anteriorobliquesling | Pelvic Health NJ | Facebook

The ITB wraps right around the lateral knee providing stability. Should the ITB be stretched? Is stretching the ITB even possible? Find out in the free video series on ITB syndrome with Tom Goom clinicaledge.co/iliotibialband | Clinical Edge

🔥 Meet the TFL: Small Muscle, Big Opinions The tensor fasciae latae (TFL) is a hip flexor, abductor, and internal rotator — but when glutes or psoas don’t show up, the TFL takes over. Overused TFL = tight hips, cranky knees, and “hip flexor pain” that’s not really your hip flexor. 🔥 Hip Flexion Feeling Blocked? Try Posterior Glide ➕ Movement That deep hip “pinch” 👎 during squats or knees-to-chest isn’t always a tight muscle — it’s often joint capsule tension. 🔧 Apply posterior traction on th

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