23/09/2025
CORE STABILITY EXERCISES
The core is a group of trunk and hip muscles that surround the spine, abdominal viscera and hip. Core muscles are essential for proper load balance within the spine, pelvis, and kinetic chain. They spare the spine from excessive load and are essential for lad transfer between the upper and lower body.
Abdominal, gluteal, hip girdle, paraspinal, and other muscles work in concert to provide this needed spinal stability.
Having a strong, stabled core helps us to prevent injuries and allows us to perform at our best.
There is also an upper quadrant core (glenohumeral and scapulothoracic joints) and a lower quadrant core (hip and trunk).
This articles refers to core muscles in relation to lower quadrant core muscles. These being:
Core Trunk Muscles : Abdominals; thoracolumbar; lumbar and lateral thoraco-lumbar muscles
Core Hip Muscles: Hip flexors, extensors, abductors, adductors and rotators.
Core stability exercises refer exercises that influence a person's ability to stabilize their core.
Stability, in this context, should be considered as an ability to control the position and movement of the core. Thus, if a person has greater core stability, they have a greater level of control over the position and movement of this area of their body.
The body's core is frequently involved in aiding other movements of the body, such as the limbs, and it is considered that by improving core stability a person's ability to perform these other movements may also be improved i.e. core stability training may help improve someone's running ability.
The body's core region is sometimes referred to as the torso or the trunk, although there are some differences in the muscles identified as constituting them.
The major muscles involved in core stability include the pelvic floor muscles, transversus abdominis, multifidus, internal and external obliques, re**us abdominis, erector spinae (sacrospinalis) especially the longissimus thoracis, and the diaph
