They Key to Your Core: Your Psoas Muscle


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 The psoas muscle group in our core can be a major contributor to low back pain, headaches, forward head posture, TMJ dysfunction, and pelvic restrictions.

This muscle attaches to the discs of T12-L1-L5 and inserts at the greater trochanter (upper thigh bone) of the femur (thigh bone). It attaches the top to the bottom and the bottom to the top of the thigh bone, which allows us to flex our hip.

If the psoas muscles are in spasm, there will be a pull on the lumbar vertabrae, causing low back pain. This muscle is also directly connected to a major nerve plexus in our core where we experience our gut feelings -- fear and strong sensation.

Think of the beef or pork tenderloin before it is cut into steaks and you get the picture and the power of the muscle. The psoas muscle group runs through the "hip flexor ," a group of muscles collectively known as the iliopsoas, which passes through the pelvis.

At bodyMoves Sports Massage, I teach self treatment techniques that bring great benefit and relief to this unique area of the body.

  

The psoas is in the news! Click to read RUNNER'S GUIDE TO THE PSOAS by Jill Hudgins (Sept. 2011, Running Times Magazine.)