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Does Excessive Sitting Shorten the Hip Flexors?

Does Excessive Sitting Shorten the Hip Flexors?

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Todd Hargrove
Oct 01, 2011
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“Excessive sitting will shorten your hip flexors.” I have read this sentence many times. What I haven’t read is a citation to supporting evidence at the end of the sentence. Let’s see how it stands up to some critical inquiry.

How might we test the hypothesis that sitting will shorten the hip flexors? I can think of three ways. If the hypothesis were tru…

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