From the July 2019 issue of Weill Cornell Medicine's Women's Nutrition Connection (WNC)
Protect and Strengthen Your Psoas Muscle
A healthy psoas muscle helps your body properly bend, stretch, and move.
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The psoas muscle is the largest and strongest muscle in your “hip flexor” group. Hip flexors pull your thigh and torso together and move them apart. They also faciliate lateral flexion of the lumbar spine—the ability for your body to bend to the right or left side. “The psoas muscles originate at the sides of […]