Improving Lumbopelvic

• Abdominals:

  • tight hip flexors bring your lumbar spine into anterior tilt
  • this lengthens your abdominals, making it harder for them to contract and strengthen
  • if pts back lifts off its because they dont have good abdominal control
  • different positions:
  • head lift
  • reverse sit up (leg raises)
  • sit up
  • short lever leg raise
• Hip

  • Glute max:
  • double and single leg bridge
  • 4 point kneeling hip extension
  • Glute med/min:
  • single leg bridges may be unstable due to weak glute med, so can give that as an exercise
  • clams (side lying, opening and closing knees)
  • side leg lifts
  • crab walking