New Orleans landmark. This French Quarter hotel opened in 1886 and is within 4 blocks of Jackson Square, Canal St shops, Harrah's New Orleans Casino, CafÃ© du Monde, and the restaurants and jazz clubs of lively Bourbon St.
either of two muscles, one on each side of the loin, extending internally from the sides of the spinal column to the upper end of the femur, which assist in flexing and rotating the thigh and flexing the trunk on the pelvis. Origin of psoas Expand. Greek.
It has been postulated that persistent spasm of the psoas muscle is responsible for more disability than pathologic conditions of other back muscles. In the present article, we describe the case of a 48-year-old man with a history of low back pain in whom the diagnosis of psoas syndrome was initially overlooked.