The BEST Way to Release a Tight Psoas Muscle for Low Back Pain and Poor Posture
Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast
Dr. Eric Berg
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🗓️ 12 April 2023
⏱️ 6 minutes
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This is the best stretch for the psoas muscle—it’s simple, and I think you’ll notice a big difference after you try it. Check it out.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Dr. Burg's Healthy Keto and Interminate Fasting Podcast, where Dr. |
| 0:07.8 | Burg takes you on the journey for the truth about getting healthy and losing healthy weight. |
| 0:21.1 | I'm going to show you the best, the absolute best stretch for your so as muscle. What is the so as |
| 0:26.9 | muscle? Well, it's the only muscle that connects the upper part of your body with the lower part. |
| 0:32.7 | And if you have a tight so as, changes out, you're going to have low back pain, |
| 0:36.4 | changes out, you're going to have poor posture, changes out your hips are not going to work |
| 0:41.3 | correctly. Without a so as, you're going to have a heck of a time getting out of bed. It's |
| 0:46.3 | virtually almost impossible to get out of bed the morning. Standing up from a seated position |
| 0:50.6 | will be difficult. Walking, running will be impossible. Now if the so as is tight, |
| 0:57.5 | keeping your posture erect, keeping your upper body over your lower body without going forward |
| 1:03.3 | is going to be an issue because the muscle, I'm going to show you what this looks like right here. |
| 1:08.4 | The so as attaches from the lumbar spine as well as the last thoracic vertebra that comes through |
| 1:14.4 | your pelvis to your upper leg. So what it does is it causes the lower leg to come up towards the |
| 1:22.9 | chest. Let's see if you can see this right here. So this is what it does right here. It's a hip |
| 1:28.7 | flexor. Now your thigh muscles are also hip flexors, but the so as is the most powerful. It's a very |
| 1:35.6 | large muscle. And without this motion, think about it, you can't walk, can't run, you can't climb |
| 1:42.4 | up the stairs. So it could be a major, major problem if it's not working correctly. Personally, |
| 1:50.1 | I had a tight so as without really been knowing it was tight, but it manifest as low back pain because |
| 1:57.2 | I used to run my bike for miles and miles and miles up hills. And that was really the only exercise |
| 2:02.7 | I was doing for about 10 years. And so you can imagine I really built up my hip flexors, but I didn't |
| 2:10.7 | work on the opposite muscles. The other thing I did at the same time was a lot of sitting. |
| 2:15.4 | I mean, I would basically sit all day long unless I was at my office. And that's just a killer |
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