The Set Targets the 6 Muscles Are Tight in Nearly Everyone

Iliacus (Mark)

96% of people have a tight iliacus. It’s the hidden driver of hip pain, SI joint issues, and low back tension.

Psoas (Mark + Orbit)

The deepest hip flexor. When it’s tight, your pelvis twists — and your body compensates from the ground up.

Piriformis (Orbit)

No one’s asking why the piriformis is tight in the first place. Hint: it starts in the hip flexors.

Upper Trapezius (Range)

The muscle that carries your stress. When it’s locked up, headaches and neck tension follow.

Pectoralis Minor (Range)

The muscle that rounds your shoulders forward. Release it and watch your posture change

Suboccipitals (Range)

The tiny muscles at the base of your skull that control 80% of neck rotation. Tension here drives headaches.

Your hip flexors, deep hip rotators, and upper body tension muscles are prone to developing tightness for many reasons: excessive sitting, poor posture, stress, past injuries, and overuse. When these muscles are tight, they pull joints out of alignment, restrict mobility, and create pain patterns that radiate throughout the body.

The Set provides clinically designed devices that provide sustained pressure for 90 seconds per spot, interrupting the pain-spasm cycle, restoring blood flow, calming the nervous system, and allowing the muscle to release.

Release the foundation first (Mark + Orbit), then the upper body (Range), then strengthen to maintain (Band).

Tension can contribute to pain

Is this for you? Find out.

Your Body Has a Sequence. So Does Recovery.

Release

Tight muscles don’t respond well to strengthening. Release the tension first.

Align

When keystone muscles release, your pelvis realigns, your spine straightens, and compensatory tension resolves on its own.

Strengthen

Now strengthening actually sticks. The Band targets hips, glutes, and core to maintain your progress.

What’s in The Set — The Details

The Hip Hook (Mark)

The world’s first and only tool designed to release both the iliacus and psoas muscles.

Target muscles:
Iliacus, psoas

Addresses: Hip pain, low back pain, SI joint pain, sciatica-like symptoms, tight hip flexors, leg length discrepancy

Key features: Patent-pending precision tip mimics a PT’s thumb. Rotates to access the iliacus on the inside of the pelvic bone. No other tool can do this.

The Orbit

The ideal warm-up and companion to the Mark. Releases the other side of the hip.

Target muscles: Psoas, piriformis, deep hip rotators, glutes

Addresses: Hip pain, glute tension, piriformis syndrome, SI joint pain

Key features: Clinically informed density (not too hard, not too soft). Perfect 4" diameter reaches the psoas region. Compact and travel-ready.

The Range

Like having a skilled practitioner at your fingertips for your neck and shoulders.

Target muscles: Upper trapezius, suboccipitals, pectoralis minor

Addresses: Neck pain, headaches, rounded shoulders, forward head posture, jaw pain, shoulder pain, stress

Key features: Three widths of anatomically designed tips that precisely target deep muscles at the base of the skull. No other tool matches the anatomy of the neck this way.

The Band

Release first, then strengthen. The Band completes the sequence.

Target muscles: Hips, glutes, core (multiple angles)

Addresses: Hip weakness, pelvic instability, muscle imbalances from tight hip flexors

Key features: Premium, soft, non-slip. 30–50 lbs resistance. Comes with PT-approved exercise manual. Won’t rip out your leg hairs.

The Companion App

Your personal PT, in your pocket. The free Aletha app guides every session so you never guess.

Addresses: Designed to answer all of your questions and be a tool you can return to any time you need it.

Key Features: Where to place each tool, how to adjust pressure, 90-second timer so you hold it long enough

Tight Hip, Twisted Core - The Key to Unresolved Pain

The science behind the method.

Addresses: Understand WHY the tools work. Knowledge is the foundation of lasting change.

Key features: The bestselling guide by Christine Annie explains how tense muscles create pain patterns throughout your body and why releasing them changes everything.


I designed every tool in this system

"After 25 years of clinical practice and treating thousands of patients, I kept finding the same hidden pattern—a tight iliacus muscle driving pain that no one was addressing. I designed the Hip Hook to give you the same deep release my patients get in my office, in the comfort of your own home."

Christine Annie, MPT

25+ years clinical experience

Licensed physical therapist

Author of

Tight Hip, Twisted Core

Creator of

The Hip Hook™

Featured in

National Geographic,

Runner's World,

Tim Ferriss, mindbodygreen

Your Personal PT, in Your Pocket

The free Aletha app was designed by a physical therapist to guide you through every session. It shows you exactly where to place the Hip Hook, how much pressure to apply, and times your 90-second release automatically. You’ll never wonder if you’re doing it right.

*IOS (Iphone Compatible Only)

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