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Marta Montenegro: The Power of the Hips

Shakira got one thing right. The hips don’t lie. You can’t hide what the hips can tell about your body, from misalignments to weak muscles that may be causing lower back pain or the tender knee you’ve been tolerating.Certainly an ill-fitting shoe, the worn-out chair and many other external factors may contribute to some body aches and pains. However, the hips muscles, in addition to other abdominals and back muscles, are considered for many what defines the core to which body extremities get connected to and resist external forces.This is why a strong hip musculature is the starting point to stabilize the pelvis and provide the right support to the lower extremity kinetic chain movements.  An unstable hip can cause a serial of distortions patterns that lead to injuries, as states in the article “Importance of Comprehensive Hip Strengthening” published in the Strength and Conditioning Journal, 2012.The unbalanced relationshipOver 17 muscles allow the hip to extend, flex, adduct, abduct ...

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