Audience: Therapists, Strength Coaches and Patients

Purpose: Pointing out that not everyone has tight hip flexors and stretching the Psoas may be a very bad thing

Warning: “Danger” is a little dramatic,  my apologies for any hysteria I have caused.

Anterior hip pain is common and many of us feel a pinching, catching or inside thigh pain with squatting and other hip movements.  Physiotherapists and chiropractors will see this everyday and it is often challenging to treat due to its multifactorial cause.  This pain can manifest during walking, squatting (a pinching sensation felt during a squat) or during different exercises. There are certainly many causes and one possible cause of this anterior hip pain is stress applied to the anterior capsule of the hip joint.  In severe cases this can lead to what is called a labral tear. Functionally, you can refer to the dysfunction as excessive anterior femoral glide. (more…)