Psoas Pelvic Floor

People may refer to it as.
Psoas pelvic floor. Overtime the psoas becomes chronically tight and pulls on the muscles of the pelvic floor. And their ability to put huge pressure onto the bladder and the bowel has been documented in various medical journals. The psoas muscles are stragegically placed into the pelvis also. The muscle is made up of two muscles the psoas major and the iliacus.
The sling muscles as they are known are the group that are targeted in people with incontinence to strengthen them. Psoas syndrome is an injury to the iliopsoas muscle which is a hip flexor. The psoas muscle is the only muscle to connect our spine to our leg. Psoas syndrome commonly affects athletes particularly runners high jumpers and dancers.
Psoas dysfunction can contribute to many physical conditions including pelvic floor dysfunction low back pain groin pain pelvic unleveling sacroiliac joint pain leg length discrepancy functional scoliosis hip pain hip snapping knee pain dysmenorrhea dyspareunia bladder and bowel conditions and constipation to name a few. The psoas attaches from the lower back down to the upper thighbone. The pelvic floor is comprised of a series of muscles including the piriformis obturator internus coccygeus iliococcygeus and pubococcygeus. The psoas muscles are a major part of the reason your legs are attached to the rest of you.
They connect to your spine at the bottom of your ribcage and then descend down your back attaching at multiple points including the vertebral discs along the way until they pass through the pelvis and arrive at their final attachment on the femur bones the big long bones of the thighs. This is an essential structure for support of the pelvic organs. These are illustrated in figure 1.