The Forgotten Core: Neck & Pecs with Christine Koth

Show Notes

Tension in 2 key areas of the body, the neck, and the hips, are the root of issues all over the body. Not only can this tension create pain and issues up and down the chain, but this tension affects our ability to handle stress and emotions. Tightness in these areas is, unfortunately, standard in the modern human, yet stretching isn’t enough to resolve it. 

In this episode, Christine Koth, a physical therapist with 20+ years of experience, will shed light on this epidemic and what can be done about it. Her muscle release inventions, the Hip Hook and the NUCKLE have helped resolve chronic pain for over 60,000 people in under 2 years. We will discuss her discovery about neck tension in particular and why she is determined to eradicate it.

James, my hubby, loves his new NUCKLE. He finds that after an especially tough workout, releasing the head and neck tension is just heavenly! I like working on my pecs because I tend to hunch a bit when I sit in front of the computer.

After working as a Physical Therapist for decades, Christine Koth began to see a pattern emerge. Two key areas of the body, what she calls the primary and secondary core, are responsible for pain almost everywhere else. She realized, that without relaxing these key muscle groups first, people were not getting better.

After mastering how to release the iliacus muscle with her own hands for her clients, she went on a mission to share these discoveries with the world in her bestselling book, Tight Hip, Twisted Core: The Key to Unresolved Pain. 

She went on to develop a self-release tool for the iliacus and psoas muscle called the Hip Hook, and a second tool for the neck and pecs called the NUCKLE so people everywhere could empower themselves and get rid of pain and tension at home.