Back pain? Blame the psoas. Seems as if everybody wants to dive headfirst into their psoas at the first sign of trouble with the lumbopelvic-hip region. Perhaps no other muscle is blamed more for causing problems than the psoas. Yes, it is an important stabilizer of the lumbar spine, but it shouldn't be the only one on which you focus. There is another big player on the scene: the iliacus.
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Now that they've been compelled to be efficient, many hospitals have found that they're not viable. But that's not a bad thing for the economy at large.
-- June O'Neill, Director, Congressional Budget Office August 28, 1995, BNA's Health Care Policy.