You can lengthen and relieve tight hip flexors in minutes with a simple stretch that targets the tension from all angles. What are hip flexors? Your hip flexors are a group of muscles primarily responsible for lifting your knees and bending at the waist. When tight hip flexors accompany tight hamstrings, releasing your hip flexors to restore a neutral pelvis is the only way to release your hamstrings as well. Keeping your hips healthyWith your hip flexors affecting so many aspects of your ability to move free of pain, it’s important to give them the attention they deserve.

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Persons: Dana Santas, quadratus, Laura Oliverio Organizations: Pain, CNN, CNN’s