Pelvic floor or hip pain? Don't forget to address your rib cage

🥴Struggling with pelvic floor or hip issues?
🫁Make sure to address your thoracic spine and work on rotational mobility.
😖Restricted rib cages can restrict the diaphragm and influence pelvic floor and hip pain, increasing pressure down on the pelvic floor.
🩻When the rib cage and thoracic spine can move well, there is a better opportunity to distribute pressure and create a balance of pressure throughout the core.
🔹Set up:
•Blanket under bent knee with that foot hooked behind the other leg which is extended out in line with the spine
•Draw top hip down away from armpit
•Posteriorly tilt pelvis
•Draw the front of the rib cage back opening up the back of the rib cage
•Press knee down engaging adductors
•Place bottom hand under head for support
•Reach top arm forward and inhale into the rib cage, exhale to open arm and twist
•Pause in the rotation and continue to inhale into rib cage and down into the waist and pelvis, and exhale to rotate as you push knee down into blanket
•Return to start and repeat
✅Tips:
•Keep your breath slow and deep down into the rib cage, waist, and pelvis
•Exhale to push the knee down and open top shoulder and chest
•Don’t let your knee lift or pelvis move
•Keep the posterior tilt of the pelvis to isolate this twist in the thoracic area
•Keep the front of the rib cage drawing back and in to create a healthy kyphosis in the thoracic spine
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