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FREE YOUR PSOAS -
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Get out of pain faster through a comfortable process under your control.
Psoas muscles work in concert with all other muscle groups involved in balance -- necessary for easy walking. Good coordination makes for easy movement. Tight psoas muscles put a drag on movement, make your legs feel heavier, and cause pain in the pelvis, low back, and groin ("groin pulls", iliopsoas bursitis, iliopsoas tendonitis).
I have organized this program into methodical lessons to free you from pain, loosen your movements, and improve your balance. Each exercise leads prepares you for the next; the exercises fit together like a jigsaw puzzle. |
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OVERVIEW
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Obviously, we need to free your tight psoas muscles and make them cooperative in movement, again.
Not so obviously, we can't free tight psoas muscles and make them more cooperative by working on the psoas muscles, alone, nor can we effectively do so by stretching, massage or manipulation of any kind. Instead, I offer an easier way to recognize, release and reverse psoas muscle pain.
As with all muscles, our brain controls our psoas muscles -- their tension, coordination, and movement; the applicable term is "muscle/movement memory." To reverse psoas muscle pain, we have to change the controlling muscle/movement memory. That involves movement training, so that moving well is as automatic as moving poorly once was.
Our psoas muscles are "our central walking muscles" and they work in concert with other muscles. If you try to free tight psoas muscles without retraining their neighbors, the overall movement pattern causes your psoas muscles return sooner or later to their habitual tension/movement pattern. It's like social pressure. So, we change the whole arrangement, a step at a time, with the lessons shown below.
Usually, we confuse our control of our psoas muscles with control of neighboring, surface muscles. So, as preparation, we sort things out by improving our control of the easier to reach, neighboring muscles, first. Then, we are in a better position to improve control of our psoas muscles, which are deeper, core muscles. After we improve our control of our psoas muscles, we integrate their movements with other muscles involved in walking and balance.
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Preparatory ExercisesWhat you see, below, are introductionsto each of the lessons (not full instruction). |
Exercise 1 - Locating the Center of Breathing
Psoas Muscle Pain Self-Relief, First Step: Locate and Activate the Core of which The Psoas Muscles are a Part. The psoas muscles cooperate with the diaphram in breathing. We find and free the center of breathing.
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Exercise 2 - Slide and TurnPsoas Muscle Pain Self-Relief, Second Step: Free the Hip Joint Muscles that Work With the Psoas Muscles. Tight hip flexors (gluteus minimus and femoris rectus) and rotators (piriformis, gluteus maximus, gemelli) distort psoas muscle movements and mask tight psoas muscles, making training the psoas muscles difficult. This preparatory step opens the way for reaching the psoas muscles. |
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Awakening and Integration Exercises |
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| Now, we are in a position to address the psoas muscles directly. First step: Free them from habitual tension that persists even when at rest. Second step: Integrate the psoas muscles at their new level of freedom with the other muscles in the movement patterns of which they are a part. | ||
Exercise 3: Walking into the Floor
Psoas Muscle Pain Self-Relief, Third Step: Integrate the hip joint muscles, the psoas muscles, and the trunk muscles. The iliopsoas muscles are the most central walking muscles that connect the trunk to the legs. |
Exercise 4: Four-Way Walking Integration
Psoas Muscle Pain Self-Relief, Fourth Step: Coordinate the movements of legs, pelvis and trunk in the walking pattern. We put the connection between legs, pelvis and trunk (mediated by the psoas muscles) into forward/back and side-to-side motions. |
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Polishing ExercisesFinally, we polish or more finely coordinate your movements in the upright position under the effect of gravity, adding further fluidity to your movements. |
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Exercises 5-7: The Vertical Core
Psoas Muscle Pain Self-Relief, Fifth Step: Integrate psoas muscle movements with twisting movements of the trunk. A healthy saunter (leisurely walking pattern) involves balanced twisting movements among abdomen (waist), thorax (ribs), and head (neck). We develop free twisting movements at all three levels and then put them together. |
Exercise 8: The Athletes' Prayer for Loose Calves
Psoas Muscle Pain Self-Relief, Sixth Step: Integrate whole-body walking coordination through the core in a standing position. The psoas muscles do their job under the effect of gravity (standing, walking, running). The feet help the psoas muscles by propelling the legs forward via "spring in the step". This movement integrates everything that has gone, before, and improves lower-leg-and-foot movements. |
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After the first lesson I could feel a difference, later on I felt a muscle in my groin/stomach area release, and my right hip relax to a large degree. After each lesson, I felt better and better. The greatest thing I noticed is that, instead of feeling better and then my body starting to decline, my body did not start the decline phase. Not everything is perfect yet with me, but the areas that released stayed that way. I even feel a difference in other areas of my body like my back, neck, legs. I still want to get more lessons/DVD from the Lawrence Gold site for my back and neck. The lessons to take a bit of trial and error to understand the moves. It can be frustrating, but stick with it because it will be worth it when you're feeling better. I can't remember a time when my was feeling this good...
6/23/2010 5:24 PM
4/27/2010 7:22 AM, Andrew Seymour wrote:
I didnt anticipate such a long email, please just respond whenever you have the time. I have been working with your "Freeing the Psoas" program for about 6 weeks now and have to tell you it really has done wonders. It has really opened up the groin muscles and is way more effective than the stretching I was doing months ago. The help with yoga and pilates was marginal compared to this.
