In this short, Dr. Ivan Bracic, DC, clinical director at Novaré Injury Care and Rehab in Fort Myers, shows a simple hip rotation drill for the internal and external rotators. Seated in a chair, he shows how limited his own hip rotation is, then stands up from the seated position and changes his knee position to work the hips in different ways.
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Video Transcript
Certain hip exercises feel yummy, they feel great, and others not so much. Why? Because of the muscles and tendons that you're actually working.
So this little rotation, this doesn't feel good. In fact, look how my limited mobility is not really allowing me to do much. And yet, a big frog work is so much easier. But you've got to work those internal and external rotators.
And then standing up from that seated position, and you can do it with modifying your knee position so that you're actually working your hips in different ways.
Listen, these are simple things that you can do on a daily basis just to help you age powerfully.
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