Soft Massage Tool Vs. Hard Massage Tool
Do not use hard implements in your soft tissue.
Especially in the areas of your exposed organs, like your abdomen, pelvis, and kidney area of your back.
You can damage to organs, not to mention you give a high alert of danger message to the nervous system.
If your hip flexor is “tight” let’s talk about a couple smarter ways to target it.
✅- use it correctly. So many times hip flexors are neurologically right to create stability because the muscle is not dynamically providing it. 🧠 This means you need to learn how to move you femur in the hip which is different then moving your knee to chest or lifting your foot up.
✅- The organs of your abdomen or pelvis are not mobile or functioning optimally and the psoas is protecting them. 💩 Yep- the muscles and joints limit mobility if the messages from the organs are telling the body something is wrong. There are gentle ways to move the organs including through breathing, stretching, and visceral massage with a professional or with a soft large coregeous ball.
If you must release your hip flexor use a soft ball like a franklin ball on the front or a softer ball like the Tune Up Fitness Therapy balls from the back. Either way think about matching the hardness of the tool to the tissue you are working.
