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Reviewing the Workings of the Hip and Pelvis
In my first effort to cover a single topic in a week’s twittering, I went for an easy target, the hips and pelvic area. There’s so much great information available, so many good teachers guiding us through a region where not long ago we only knew of a few key markers.
Like the hip bones, that turned out to be in the wrong place.
Today we have generous educators offering a variety of video clips, articles, drawings of muscles and bones and how the entire complex works together. Heck, we even have some Power Point class notes offered up by an instructor teaching at a chiropractic college.
We’re going to start with the muscles of the pelvis, from the front, and from the back. This GetBodySmart site is terrific; with a little clicking around you can build the muscle system layer by layer. Here’s the front of the pelvic musculature, and here’s the back.
Next let’s watch a couple of hip region videos, first the bones of the low back and pelvis:
And then of the hip musculature:
Now that you’ve had the bones and muscles overview, let’s go over to Julie Donnelly for a discussion on pain and the pelvic musculature.
As long as we’re talking about pain, you might want to re-read my notes from an Anthony Carey workshop he calls What the Hips Lack Hurts the Back.
Now that’s a lot of reading. Time out for an Evan Osar video in which he works to restore internal rotation at the hip.
Now from some study. Here’s a terrific Power Point from Mark Hartsuyker, instructor of chiropractic, covering SI joint pain and treatment. That Power Point came from this amazing selection of chiropractic school class notes, 9th link down. And yes, there are a dozen others offered complements of the good Dr. Hartsukyer.
That will leave you ready for another video break. How about Resistance hip lifts: Here’s Michael Boyle showing how to band-load hip lifts
And we’ll drop back in on Evan Osar to learn about hip centration and glute activation, bridging with a hip hinge:
Wrapping up this week’s topic on hips and pelvis with this refresher: A beginner’s guide to hip mobility.