Anatom3DAdductor longus
Musculus adductor longus · Dlouhý přitahovač stehna
Muscles
Looks like
A long triangular muscle in the inner thigh, from the pubic bone to the middle of the thigh bone.
What it does
Pulls the thigh inward and helps bend the hip.
Keeping it well
The most commonly strained groin muscle in football; the Copenhagen adductor exercise helps prevent it.
Related conditions
- Botulism
- Chronic venous insufficiency
- Fibromyalgia
- Frailty & falls in older age
- Growing pains
- Heat exhaustion & heatstroke
- Lymphatic filariasis (elephantiasis)
- Lymphoedema
- Malnutrition & refeeding syndrome
- Muscular dystrophy
- Polymyalgia rheumatica
- Restless legs syndrome
- Rhabdomyolysis
- Sarcoma
- Sarcopenia
- Tetanus
- Varicose veins