After reading all of these posts I wish you all lived in Southern California so I could treat all of you. I could really help to assist you all in your recovery from chronic hip flexor and adductor tightness. I would look up active release techniques and try to find a provider in your area. A.R.T. Is one of the soft tissue modalities that I provide and it has been very effective in helping my athletes with chronic hip flexor and adductor tightness.
Hello! I know that this is an old thread and you made this response a while ago but I am a HS runner who is doing some summer training and I have EXACTLY what you described. Could you send me whatever stretches and/or strengthening for this injury? I'm really interested into getting back into running.
Thanks
Bump
I have the tight right side and a nerve impingement down the left quad, have you found a solution? Thanks
Any advice or input would be greatly appreciated. Thank you
Im just getting over a major bout of piriformis syndrome with lots sciatic pain, ham string tightness. Whole right leg would sort of just cramp up over a run. The cause Im pretty sure is right hip flexors (unsure which specifically).
Have been trying to loosen the piriformis for ages with no luck. Released my hip flexors and the relief over a couple of days was massive.
This is me to a T.
It's on my left side, and my left leg is functionally shorter. My left calf, hamstring, adductors, and maybe hip flexors are chronically tight. Could this be from a nagging ankle injury on my right side?
More importantly, please let me know how I can actually fix this, instead of just doing stretches to cope with the chronic issue.
Please and thank you for anything.
-Brice
I am interested in the exercises. I have had issues in the groin since a hip repair 6 years ago. I have had PT and tried various other exercises without success.
Thank you,
Hi there, I’ve been struggling for months with a running injury and missed many races I’d hoped to run well in. I’ve come across this post which I know is pretty old but it fits so much of what is going on for me I wondered if you’re still willing to share stretches/exercises for this? I do hope so :)
Many thanks
Georgia
Hi Neliah2507,
I have been having issues with chronic hip flexor and groin muscles for a year now. PT gave me exercises to strengthen hip abductors...... not really helping that much. Stretching also doesn't do much good nor does massage. I know your post was from 10 years ago - but was wondering if you could send me what helped you? I am desperate at this point. email is
Thank you for any help!
Still no solutions :(
I had a problem that was very similar and the genesis of the tightness, which led to injury, etc., was sleeping on my side in something akin to the fetal position.
Once I started sleeping on my back with a firm couch pillow under my knees the tension started to decrease, then all of the foam rolling, stretching, etc., started to actually work.
If you're a side sleeper, give it a try for a week and see if you have any decrease in tightness or pain.
sleepyman wrote:
I had a problem that was very similar and the genesis of the tightness, which led to injury, etc., was sleeping on my side in something akin to the fetal position.
Once I started sleeping on my back with a firm couch pillow under my knees the tension started to decrease, then all of the foam rolling, stretching, etc., started to actually work.
If you're a side sleeper, give it a try for a week and see if you have any decrease in tightness or pain.
Thank you for the tip! Also going to try standing all day at work to try get the hips to return to normal.