hi folks I'm Bob schroer physical therapist Brad Heinrich physical therapist we are the most famous physical therapist on the internet in our opinion of course Bob's like Monday because it's the day after Labor Day right I worked labor day it really is a Monday except for it's Tuesday ok stop stretching your hip flexors here is why and we're gonna do a test to decide if your hip flexors are tight or loose right it's very true a lot of times people do have tight hip flexors but it's a simple test to know for sure because if you do not have them and you start stretching them that could lead to other problems so this is it and we'll get into that by the way if you are new to our Channel please take a second to subscribe to us we provide videos how stay healthy fit pain-free and we upload everyday also go over to the Facebook and like us once again we are giving away something Brad yes but we're actually giving away on YouTube too so if you look further our video on the B the tens unit right Tenzer unit giveaway that's it yeah tens unit giveaway yeah it's like you're making this up off the head you know it must be Monday anyways five of them but anyway Facebook Bob and Brad if you go there it spin to the top of the page you can find it real right so tens unit is a great device for pain particularly chronic pain so you don't have to take those opioids and pain meds yeah we really like this one by I relieved by we really are off on a tangent here now so yeah hips we go hips yeah everybody's like talking like hip flexure you got a tight unlock those hip flexors you know okay and and many people you do but if you have a loose joint mm-hmm you don't want to be stretching it right yeah if the muscles already loosened you just go to end range or up the therapists call that and stretch a joint into end range over and over that can cause the joint problems right and for example if you're one of those people that happens to be kind of loose all over right and I'm not talking about your sex life the family show yeah you go ahead and you could take your thumb this is one test and see how close you can get to your forearm if you're one of those people that can put the thumb on the forearm you might be one of those pretty people that are right you know you solve over and-and-and you may not need to stretch your hip flexor well show you a lot tests right so are we gonna go do the test we do the test are waiting no okay Brad always complaining about its not getting to the point all right so this is a test that's been going on for many many decades and there are we learned it when I was a student that was you know it's a hundred years ago right it's called the thymus test and there's different ways to do it but I like to do it with two people because if you try it by yourself particularly if you're not familiar with it it can give you a false reading so it's best to do it on a firmed bed a bed may not work you need something firm yeah because you if you get to the edge of the bed and
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