Adductor group

Looks like

A fan of muscles from the pubic bone to the inner thigh, the deepest of them large and strong.

What it does

Pull the legs together and steady the pelvis in every stride.

Keeping it well

Warm up before sprinting and kicking; groin strains are the classic injury here.

Its parts

• Adductor brevis
• Adductor longus
• Adductor magnus
• Adductor minimus
• Gracilis
• Pectineus

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