How to Foam Roll and Release Your Psoas to Relieve Low Back Pain
Everyone knows they have to stretch their psoas if they want to improve their function and move with optimal performance.
Many people don't know that a tight psoas is also related to low back pain. The iliospoas, your hip flexor, attaches to the front side of the lumbar spine. As we sit for long periods of time our psoas adapts to that shortened position and gets tight over time which can cause a pulling on the low back.
This version of foam rolling your psoas is great after a bike ride, before a run and as a general way to open up the hips to help relieve low back pain.
If you have been stretching your hip flexor but it hasn't helped, try foam rolling, as you may be over stretching and what you really need is to break up the tight myofascial fibers.
Let me know if you have questions
Dr Jordan Fairley
