Hips
Seated hip windshield wipers
Mobility · Seated
- How to do it
- Sit tall, feet planted. Slowly sweep both knees to one side, then the other, like windshield wipers, moving at the hips, not collapsing the low back.
- Dose
- 10 reps
- What you should feel
- Your hips rolling in and out
- Common mistake
- Collapsing the low back or forcing end range.
- Make it easier
- Make the movement smaller.
- Avoid this movement if
- You have hip replacement precautions or groin pain.
- Why DeskBreak uses it
- Gentle rotation for both hips at once, easy to do under a desk.
Stop this movement if it causes sharp or worsening pain, numbness, weakness or dizziness.
Evidence
General movement principle.
- Effectiveness of workplace interventions in the prevention of upper extremity musculoskeletal disorders and symptoms: an update of the evidence (Occupational and Environmental Medicine, 2016)