How Tight Or Hypertonic Adductors and Quadriceps Affect Ilio-psoas and Back Pain

The basis of pelvic balance relies on the ability of all the muscles which attach at the hip and groin to relax and extend after workout or exercise.

But as we all know, without stretching post-workout, the muscles remain shortened and develop adhesions or contractures.

Adhesions result when a certain group of muscle fibres stay stuck together after contracting, not releasing and then acting as a group rather than as individual muscle bundles.

A contracture is a knot which develops along the muscle belly, usually, because of repeated muscle contracting and not relaxing at that location in the muscle belly.

The result is a developing knot of muscles with the presence of excessive proteins binding the muscle filaments together and trapping lactic acid and other proteins in a knot. The required enzymes necessary for the releasing of these muscles appears to be absent or in short supply at the knot.

Massage therapy will release both adhesions and contractures. When the muscles doesn't want to release, the use of pranic healing techniques will rid the etheric or energy congestion at the muscle knot location and assist the muscles to release.

There is a direct connection between the etheric or energy body and the physical body. Healing the first body releases the physical body. The body has the ability to heal itself when blockages are removed. Pranic healing techniques can achieve this most of the time.
How does tight quadriceps and adductors affect ilio-psoas?

By adding external pelvic tension against the hip bone. The attachments of the quadriceps and adductors along the pubic bone and especially upper iliac ( hip bone) pull the iliac into an outflare exerting outward pulling strain on the iliac, straining the iliac, and iliopsoas, as a consequence.
The ilio-psoas is two muscles which are hip flexors and torso flexor. The psoas is combined with the quadratus lumborum at the back of the lumbar acting as your core flexor-extensor combination. Any imbalance will often result in low back pain.

What I have discovered in performing multiple treatments on the ilio-psoas is that there is always accompanied tightness in the adductors and quadriceps on the same side as a tight ilio-psoas. Both are innervated by the femoral nerve.

I have found that releasing the adductors and quadriceps first will result in a lessening of the tension on the iliacus, and ilio-psoas as a consequence.

I welcome massage therapists to attempt this treatment sequence and be amazed at how quickly the ilio-psoas relaxes after treating the adductors and quadriceps first.

By Roger Fontaine, r.m.t., Oct. 08


Roger Fontaine is a registered massage therapist who is operating a massage clinic offering therapeutic, rehabilitative, and stress-reduction table massage services and mobile service for chair massage in the workplace for special events, fundraisers, tournaments, celebrations, and any other function which requires a unique special feature. I have been operating at Shapes Fitness Centre at 12-1150 Nairn Avenue in Elmwood Winnipeg since 2004, previously having operated a home residential clinic since 1999.

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