HOW TO UNLOCK YOUR HIP FLEXORS: Simple Remedies For Curing Tight Hip Flexors
Anthony K. Blake @2018
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Chapter 1
The hip flexors
Hip flexors are a collection of muscles that are around the top of the thighs that link the upper leg to the hip. These muscles are instrumental in almost every type of activity including the movement of the lower body and exercises like squatting, bench press ,deadlift, and overhead press
The major hip flexors include: Iliopsoas, Sartorius, Pectineus, Rectus femoris, Gracilis, etc.
The simple act of lifting your knees towards your body involves a complex muscles. The muscles and tendons that link your knee to the bones can simply be stressed due to overuse.
The primary function of the hip flexors is for the purpose of bringing your knee towards your chest and to stoop it at the waist. Signs of hip flexor are easily visible in mild or severe pains that can affect your movement. Failure to rest and seek for medical or other treatments, can degenerate the symptoms of hip flexor. However, there are numerous home activities and remedies will diminish hip flexor injury signs if they are performed.
Causes of Hip Flexor
Hip flexor injury result from excessive usage of hip flexor muscles and ligaments. This causes the muscles and ligaments to become sore, swollen, and leads to excruciatingly pains.
Another cause of hip flexor injury is typically a sudden contraction of the muscles, particularly when your muscles are stretched. This strain is often caused by a powerful sprint that usually involves excessive acceleration or a very long kick especially whenever the body was not prepared for such activity through warning.
Sometimes, the tear does not start immediately but gradually as a result of continuous stress that is piled on the muscles. The category of people who have a high likelihood of experiencing hip flexor injury include:
- performers
- martial artist
- soccer players
- Athletes
- cyclists
- Those who carry out step aerobics
Extend of tear of the muscles may vary. It could range from a slight tear that results in the damage of some few fibers. It could be substantial amount of damage to the fibers of the muscle, or even to more serious hip damage such as the complete rapture or tear of the muscle which will make the person unable to walk without limping.
Chapter 2
Symptoms of Hip Flexors
How to you know that you have hip flexor so that you can begin to take the steps that are outlined in this book for the purposes of healing the pain? Hip flexor have some signs and they include:
- Bruises with inflammation
- Extreme pains at the front of your hip.
- Sudden pains
- Pains at every slightest stretch of the hip
- Sever increasing and severe pains when lifting your thigh towards your chest
- pains whenever you stretch your hip muscles
- Muscle spasms at the hip or the thigh
- sensitivity when the front hip is touched.
- Swelling or bruise at the hip region or thigh
- Pains when walking or running
Home Remedies for the Treatment of Tight Hip Flexors
Rest
This simple but effective treatment for Tight Hip Flexors has proven to serve as the most common remedies for the treatment of Tight Hip Flexors. If you begin to experience Tight Hip Flexors because of a particular activity which you were doing, it is good to stop it or you could some other type of activity. If Tight Hip Flexors is caused by swimming for long hours, you can try some other type of activity such as cycling. The simple thing to do to avoid this type of pain is to an alternative activity that will not cause the same pain. This will prevent muscle strain. In other situations, you can take a rest for up to the period of 9 to 14 days after the injury.
The Ice Remedies
Sometimes, hip flexors can be cured using home made without necessarily placing reliance on drugs. Get a cold ice berg from the refrigerator or any source that is available to you. Now apply the Ice over the affected area for approximately 15 minutes many times each day. This simple home remedy alleviates the inflammation, pain and even swelling. After about seventy-two hours when you first experienced the injury, change the ice packs with moistened heat applications. Make use of Wet clothes, moistened heating pads, warm, and heat patches. In addition, you can also take a shower with hot water which help in reducing the tightness of your muscles.
Massage and Physiotherapy
Massage is a good therapy that can serve as a simple solution to varioius discomfort and muscles pain. Beyond easing your pain, message fastns your healing process. You can also add Physiotherapy to the remedies that will help you heal Hip flexors. When you stretch your muscles slowly, it increases the flexibility and strength of your hip joint.
Drugs
There are many pain relievers that can be used to effectively lower and reduce the pain from the hi flexors. Ibuprofen, naproxen and Acetaminophen are some of the common drugs that can be used to reduce the pains and strains of hip flexors. Please consult your doctor before taking any medication for hip flexors. Do not use ibuprofen or naproxen for more than 2 weeks because of its side effects unless under the guidance of a doctor.
Consult your doctor
You can consult your doctor for examination to be carried so that the exact cause of your pains can be determined. When your doctor examines the hip and thigh, the result of the diagnosis will be used in treating you. He may want to conduct a further examination will be required where the injury is severe.
Chapter 3
Exercises for Hip Flexors
Mild stretching exercises help in reducing hip flexor muscle injury as well as forestall the likelihood of future injury. Perform hip flexor stretches as outlined in this book, but ensure that you dont push your body excessively. It helps in reducing the danger of flexor injury if you rub moist heat and warm your muscles with a calm walk for approximately three minutes prior to any stretching is done. But where your flexor strain is very severe which results in the tear of your muscles, the doctor may advise you to see a therapist. Corrective surgery can be carried out to repair the damaged muscles.
Stretching the Hip Flexor
This exercise is simple. Kneel down and then take one of your legs slightly forward. Make sure that your back is straight and then gradually move yours forward until the front area of your hips begins to feel stretched. Remain in this position for about 30 seconds. Then repeat the exercise three time each with your left and right leg.
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