The main hip flexors are the iliacus and psoas (the 'p' is silent) major.  Picture your pelvis as a bowl.  At the back of the bowl is where the lumbar spine attaches, going upward, sitting on the sacrum (5 fused vertebrae forming an inverted triangle) that is very strongly attached to the two halves of the pelvis.  The iliacus muscle starts along the back part of the ilium and sacrum, travels along the bottom of the pelvis and over the front edge to the inside of the femur (thigh bone).

Lower Back Pain with leg or foot symptoms can be a very serious condition.  If your leg symptoms are related to a disc problem in your lower back, then it is important to have your condition properly diagnosed and treated.  A bulging disc pressing on a nerve can cause permanent damage that will leave you with lasting problems.  Click on the heading title above to read through some of the FAQs for this topic.

When you think about how much movement our lower backs have to go through, it's a wonder we don't have more problems.  There are lots of ligaments that help to stabilize and control movement, muscles that must work together and in sequence, discs that must cushion the spine while maintaining normal movement and nerves that must both send and receive messages that are critical to controlling all of this!

The demands placed upon the lower back can leave the tissue overworked, overstretched and underappreciated!  Click on the heading link to see FAQs on tightness and stiffness.