If you have ever felt tension in the front of your hips after sitting too long, struggled with lower back pain or had difficulty touching your toes, your hip flexors may be to blame. These often ...

Background Stiff landings with less knee flexion and high vertical ground reaction force have shown to be associated with increased risk of ACL injuries (Leppänen et al. 2016). The association between ...

But how often are you stretching your hip flexors? Probably not very often, right? Despite being a core group of muscles used ...

If you've ever run, jumped or been told you have good posture, you have your hip flexor muscles to thank. On the other end, muscle pain and immobility issues are also often connected to problems ...

A new study has found that greater trunk flexion has significant impact on stride length, joint movements, and ground reaction forces. How you lean may be one of the contributors to your knee pain, ...

The body is really good at sending alarms about what could be wrong—and the hip flexor tightening and weakening is the one alarm most of us have felt at some point. Whether it is while getting off the ...

Correspondence to Professor Kay M Crossley, La Trobe Sport and Exercise Medicine Research Centre, School of Allied Health, La Trobe University, Bundoora, VIC 3086, Australia; k.crossley{at}latrobe.edu ...