IN JURY CLINIC
Adductor strain
You’ve heard of the adductors but do you know what they do, how niggly strains can occur, and how you can prevent them?
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The adductors are a group of muscles in your inner thighs, made up of the magnus, the brevis and the longus. Magnus is the largest, most powerful and complex of the three. The adductors attach between the base of the hip bones and fan across the femur and down to its base. Because of where they connect, these muscles can affect a lot of functions that are part of your running stride, including flexing the leg, extending it and doing rotational movements of the hip.