95. You've Stretched Your Hip Flexors Every Day for a Year. Here's Why Nothing Has Changed.
If you've been stretching your hip flexors consistently and the tightness keeps coming back — this episode is the answer you haven't been given. The sensation of tightness is real.
But for most outdoor women the cause isn't what they think. There are two completely different patterns that create the same feeling in the front of the hip: true structural shortening and neurological protection — the nervous system guarding an area it perceives as unstable.
Passive stretching can address the first. It cannot fix the second. And most outdoor women are experiencing the second.
Dr. Liz Koch, DPT…
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