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hey guys dr. Burke here in this video

we’re going to talk about this so as the

P being silent it’s a very large muscle

that connects the upper torso with the

bottom part of the legs okay so it

allows you to stay connected if you

didn’t have that muscle you’d probably

be separated but it allows you to flex

your your knees up or your legs up so

it’s a flexion it brings you forward

like this like view to do sit-ups and

come all the way up this is the main

muscle that allows you to do that okay

so it connects to these vertebra here

and it goes through the pelvis to the

inside of your femur or your upper leg

so it brings the leg up and it

stabilizes the pelvis so many people

have a problem with this muscle either

it’s too tight or it’s too weak or it

could be tight on this side and loose on

this side so I’m going to show you

exactly how to test it and what to do to

stretch it so you can get these

symmetrical I think it shows up as a big

problem for people because they sit all

day long or some people do a lot of

sit-ups but you don’t reverse the flow

and do extensions with your back so if

you do too many sit-ups you’re going to

mess this up and if you sit too much

you’re going to mess it up and your

posture is going to be kind of like this

all the time so let’s demonstrate how to

test this muscle okay so the first thing

we’re going to test is we’re going to

test if the so s is tight on this side

or this side and all we’re going to do

is you need someone to do this so if

you’re laying down you need someone to

measure keep this leg straight and raise

it as high as you can alright good put

it down good now do the same thing with

the other side okay good now you can see

that this leg went up a lot higher and I

always ask the person did you feel that

this went higher yes okay that was a yes

so what happens is that this side over

here is restricted it’s tight so we have

a tight so as on this side okay so what

we’re going to do is we’re going to

stretch out we’re going to have Lana’s

back and stretch this out but this side

is good this sides not good so we want

to balance this this is going to

and imbalance with his pelvis and cause

hip pain or back pain in which also he

does have hip pain that’s probably why

so let’s go ahead and have you flip over

so I’m going to have you move close to

this side a little bit more good so now

we’re going to do is we’re going to keep

this leg straight okay and then we’re

going to just we’re going to stretch it

down like this okay so this is actually

pulling this thing down do you feel any

stretch right here yeah now keep this

leg straight and see if you can’t yeah

right there do you feel more of a

stretch right there yes yeah so what’s

happening we’re actually without falling

off he’s stretching this muscle because

it’s connected right here and then

you’ll bring it up a little bit and then

we’ll just stretch it and we want to

stretch this all the way down like that

that’s just one way you can do it in

many different ways okay so I’m going to

show you another way scoot back you can

take a foam roller and we can put this

roller kind of up right here yeah and we

can keep this knee up and bring this

thing down do you feel the stretch right

there so this is a good way to stretch

it but we’re just stretching this now

would actually stretch this for about

two minutes what’s going to happen it’s

going to balance out the psoas

okay so you would if you had a problem

with the other psoas you would just do

the opposite so we’re trying to just

stretch the one that is tight very very

simple no complications okay so now we

take this down now the next thing we’re

going to do is we’re going to check the

strength of the so s okay so the so s

brings the knee up here so it brings it

up right so there’s a couple ways we can

do this what I like to do ii like to

bend this and hold this down resist me

I’m going to press down okay I’m going

to check the strength there that’s

strong so this sides okay bend this one

right here resist

I did resist okay his right so as is

weak okay so if this sides weak then

what’s going to happen is that he’s

going to throw off the whole balance so

so again let me just kind of summarize

this we’re checking the so s we’re going

to press down and compare this side

because remember the so s brings the

knee up right and then we’re going to

check this side there’s nothing there

just you can relax okay yeah so we have

a week so I have sis now how do we make

it stronger now we could stretch it but

that doesn’t work what we have to do is

we have to stimulate the other so s okay

so this is weak we’re going to stimulate

the so as on the good side now it

attaches deep into the hip but we’re not

going to press into a sip we’re going to

press down in the abdomen on this side

okay so we’re kind of working on the

soft tissue that attaches to the so S on

this vertebra so we’re going to come

right into here and it’s going to be a

little tender it is tender

so the two-step process we’re going to

stimulate the the strong muscle it’s on

the opposite side of the weak one

right through in here that’s a good one

right there okay stimulate just a little

bit and now we’re going to recheck the

muscle you resist it

see this drug actually amazed so it

instant got stronger so now the other

thing you could do is lay on your

stomach this leg right here this cell as

is weaker it was weaker okay so when you

eat when you lifted it so what we can do

as a step two is we could stimulate the

opposite muscle on the same side okay so

we can do the other so abs or the

opposite muscle but there’s the option

action on the same side so if this so

lessons week we work on the muscle that

extends this because the psoas flexes so

extensors are all the glutes so we can

press on the glute muscle right through

and here and this will be tender too and

we stimulate the glute right there it’s

going to make his so as strong on the

opposite on the same side though

okay good so now let’s just go ahead and

evaluate keep this straight and raise it

for me okay see how high that came up

now the other one

beautiful now raise this one goes up

pretty high good now the other one okay

good now do you feel any restrictions

left in it right no there was a slight

increase on this side but this was a lot

better so it’s something that we would

repeat over and over and over but that’s

just an example of fixing the

flexibility issues and then fixing the

strength issues okay so go ahead and

apply this and put your comments below