So what we are going to work on now are the quads okay. These are kind of like the thigh muscles, the muscles that are in the front. They are exactly three separate muscles, that is why they are called quads and they are not just one big muscle. What we are going to do is we are going to continue to do the same thing but I am going to apply a little more pressure to these because they really, really do get tight but along with this muscle I am going to work the muscle that is on the side and it is not even a muscle it is a tendon. They call it the IT band and it is a tendon that is kind of attributed to the muscle and that muscle or tendon is connected to your knees all the way up to your hip and the only reason I am working on this muscle is because he has lower back problems. If you have lower back problems, you have hip problems, if you have hip problems, you have IT band problems, and if you have IT band problems you most likely have quad problems and then you have knee problems. What we are going to continue to do is work up and down the quads and the IT band. This is just motion, up and down, up and down with pressure. That is very important because like I said this muscle is very tight. The same thing with the IT band, but you don't want it to be too uncomfortable. If you see your client flinch or they look like they are uncomfortable, just come off the pressure a little bit. Another good thing to do is maybe apply your knuckles and spread, just spread the muscle around. Apply pressure and just spread, spread the muscle out. Once again use as much of your hand as you can because it is a large muscle. You can apply a lot more pressure if you use your knuckles, your thumb, the whole part of your thumb. What I like to do here also is I like to grab and let go, grab and let go, grab and let go, grab and let go, that way I can get the IT band and the quad at the same time. Once we loosen that up and you feel a little release we are going to go into stretching his hip out.
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