Stretching your hip-flexor is extremely important, but it may not be enough when you have developed trigger points. Myofascial release will bring you more relief. <\/p>\n
Lie down on your stomach and place the ball high up towards your hips, just inside of the hip bone. Now as you transfer your body weight on the ball, relax as much as you can, and let the ball push inside your pelvis. If your hip flexor is very tight, this could feel very uncomfortable. Breathe deeply and stay in the place until you feel that the muscles start relaxing. Then move the ball around a bit to different position and repeat. Try to find the most uncomfortable spots and release them all. <\/p>\n
You can do this with a tennis ball as well. But because the tennis ball is smaller, it will take more practice how to position the body to find and release the trigger points. Because you reach much deeper the discomfort can be higher, but you will feel really great when all the tension in the hip flexors is gone and you play tennis pain free. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
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The hip flexor muscle, also known as iliopsoas, can cause severe pain if it gets tight. Its main function is to flex the thigh. The constant running and lunging on the tennis court can easily overwork the hip flexors. They get short and tight and very often will form trigger points. The hip flexors are…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":84,"label":"Myofascia"}]},"featured_image_src_large":false,"author_info":{"display_name":"wM6jXv4t1KaI","author_link":"https:\/\/insyncphysio.com\/author\/wm6jxv4t1kai\/"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":84,"name":"Myofascia","slug":"myofascia","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":84,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":3,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":84,"category_count":3,"category_description":"","cat_name":"Myofascia","category_nicename":"myofascia","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/insyncphysio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2701"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/insyncphysio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/insyncphysio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insyncphysio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insyncphysio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/insyncphysio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2701\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/insyncphysio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insyncphysio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insyncphysio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}