Anatom3DAdductor magnus
Musculus adductor magnus · Velký přitahovač
Muscles
Looks like
The largest inner thigh muscle, from the pubic and sitting bones down to the whole back of the thigh bone.
What it does
Pulls the thigh inward; its hamstring part also straightens the hip.
Keeping it well
Main femoral vessels pass through a gap in it; strain feels as inner thigh pain.
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