The adductor muscle originates from the pelvis and runs along the femur. These ribbon-like muscles move the thighs toward the middle part of the body. They are also responsible for hip flexion ...

Learn how to strengthen the ball and socket joint of the hip to feel stronger and more comfortable walking, squatting, ...

This case conforms to current scientific and clinical data [2,3,4,5,6,7,8] describing acute muscle injuries in that a hip adductor strain occurred as a result of a forceful eccentric contraction ...

Despite this widely held conviction and the derivation of conservative treatment programs based on this premise addressing hip abductor strength, there have been no studies to date investigating hip ...

Commonly found among male athletes who participate in cutting and pivoting sports, such as soccer, football, basketball and hockey, groin injuries have been associated with a myriad of descriptions ...

Therefore, a simple hip-adductor strengthening programme for prevention of groin injuries is needed. Objective We aimed to investigate the effect of an 8-week hip-adductor strengthening programme, ...

A 2008 survey of hip injuries in the NFL introduced the “sports hip triad,” consisting of a hip labral tear, adductor injury and rectus abdominis injury.This concept highlights the frequent ...

To date, only the (hip) adductor longus was shown to sustain this type of injury. In this case report, I describe the first published example of an magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)-documented ...