What is Tight Hip Flexor and Injury?
The tight hip flexor is a problem which doesn’t let you move your hip flexibly. You will feel pain while doing the normal movement. Mostly this can cause for leaving your muscle inactive for a long time.
Hip Flexor Injury occurs when one or more hip flexor is
torn. The psoas and iliacus are the two muscles which are most often injured.
When a smaller number of fibers is torn, the injury is relatively minor and
does not impact function, although it is still painful but when muscles tear
completely the injury is much more severe and can result in major loss of
function in the leg.
Causes of Hip Flexor pain
Tight Hip flexors pain can be caused by overuse of flexor
muscles weakness in supporting muscles or contraction that result in a tear.
Sitting for a long period of time can also cause hip flexor injury because its
forces hip flexor muscles contracted for a long period of time. The people who
most likely to experiment hip flexor injury are-
1) Athletes
2) Soccer players
3) Aerobic Dancers
4) Martial Artists
5) Kickers, and
6) Cyclists
What Pulled Hip Flexor Feels Like?
Pulled hip flexor pain feel in front of the hips. However,
there are several other symptoms of pulled hip flexor, hip flexor pain come’s
suddenly, increase pain when you lift your leg towards your chest, pain when
you stretch your hips, muscle cramp at your hip or thigh, sensitivity to the
touch at the front of your hip, swelling around your hip or thigh area.
Symptoms of a Hip Flexor Strain
There can be many tight hip flexors symptoms. If you are
having any one of these symptoms, you will need to be alert and look for the
proper treatment to cure it. Few of the symptoms of hip flexor are-
1) You will have
sudden pain on the hip or pelvis area.
2) You may have a
cramping sensation on the muscle of your upper leg area.
3) You will have
soreness on your upper leg area.
4) While doing any
activities like jumping or kicking, you will feel pain and inactiveness.
5) You will feel
inflexibility while moving your leg.
6) More swelling
will be felt while moving.
7) Tightness will
be felt while sitting or sleeping.
What Causes Hip Pulled Hip Flexor?
The pulled hip flexor is mainly caused when you use your hip
flexor too much. As a result, muscle became sore and painful. If you want to
get rid of the swelling and pain from the hip flexor, you should get proper
treatment.
