In this six-part series, we'll demonstrate quick exercises for different areas of your body every week to help you stay limber.

When we sit, the hips and knees are flexed at a 90-degree angle. The hip flexors — the muscles that run along the front of the hip — become compressed and shortened. Over time, like a rubber band left ...

Hip pain affects countless women but is often overlooked by doctors Understanding its causes and solutions can lead to ...

Sitting at a desk, day after day, can reinforce “poor posture patterns” and hold your hip flexors in a shortened position, leading to tightness, Mooney says. This tightness can make it harder ...

A healthy person can have some minor variations in the diaphragm's anatomy. For example, the left or right side may be slightly higher or lower without affecting physical functions. During pregnancy, ...

“When you’re sitting, those hip flexor muscles are shortened the entire time, which causes tightness,” explains Mitro. When that muscle length is shortened, it’s going to be harder to ...

Hip tendinitis is a chronic condition caused by overloading the hip flexors or abductors. It differs from the degenerative hip injury that ended Sir Andy Murray’s career because it is a soft ...

This is where knowing some hip anatomy 101 comes in handy ... These would be the hip flexor muscles, the ligaments, and the joint capsule. He explains that all of the soft tissues in the body ...

When you’re sitting, whether you’re at your desk for the whole morning, on a long roadtrip in a car, or stuck on a ten-hour flight to Europe, your hip flexors, the muscles that help bring your ...

If you have a sedentary job where you sit at a desk, table or behind the wheel of a car, there’s a high chance you’ve got tight hip flexors. The group of muscles that allow bending at the hip ...