What are some simple activities I can do to release my psoas?

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Emily Hill, DPT · Answer

My name is Emily, I'm a physical therapist. I'm going to show you one way that you can release your psoas, but there are a couple other different ways that you can do this. This is just the easiest to film. You're going to need a lacrosse ball or a tennis ball, a racquetball sometimes works, but a bigger ball that you can use, and a weight, a kettlebell or a dumbbell. You're going to lay down on your back and find the area between your belly button and like the pointy part of your hip bone and draw a line between those and you're going to put your ball in that space. Now you want to try to relax as much as possible so that you're not activating your abdominal muscles and then you're going to take that weight and put it on top of it. Now I will tell you you'll have to add a little extra pressure. I only have a 10 pound weight, I do have to add a little extra pressure. If it's pulsating, you need to move it over, that means you're on the wrong area, so move it over to the side a little bit. It shouldn't feel like it's pulsing, okay, that's the wrong spot. And then what you're going to do with your leg, I'm going to move up so you can see it, is the leg on the same side that you have the ball is going to fall out to the side and back in. Okay, you can also do little tiny marches. I'd say the hardest part here is you have to keep your abdominals relaxed so that that ball can sink underneath your abdominal muscles to get to your psoas, which your psoas lies right on the front part of your lumbar spine.

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