If your lower back is off the bench or if your dangling leg is not pointed straight down you probably have tight hip flexors.

This technical test measures the level of flexibility in your hip flexor muscles, which should give you a pretty good indication whether your hips are tight or not. “To do this test, sit on the ...

If you have a sedentary job where you sit at a desk, table or behind the wheel of a car, there’s a high chance you’ve got tight hip flexors. The group of muscles that allow bending at the hip ...

"When the hip flexor muscles are tight they cause increased tension on the low back," Barnick says. "The psoas muscle, part ...

Sitting at a desk, day after day, can reinforce “poor posture patterns” and hold your hip flexors in a shortened position, leading to tightness, Mooney says. This tightness can make it harder ...

The good news? You can lengthen and relieve tight hip flexors in minutes with a simple stretch that targets the tension from all angles. The three-way hip flexor release is a mobility exercise I ...

Sitting for long periods of time causes the hip flexors to tighten and shorten, resulting in pain. And tight hips can cause pain in other areas of our body, too, including the low back.

(CNN) — If you have ever felt tension in the front of your hips after sitting too long, struggled with lower back pain or had difficulty touching your toes, your hip flexors may be to blame.