"The adductor muscle is being used all the time," says Costigan. "It's used as a hip flexor and extensor, so when your hip is in flexion with your knee raised, it extends the hip and brings the ...

The hip flexors are a group of muscles in your ... such as the hamstrings and glute maximus); the hip adductors (the muscles ...

3 Chronic groin pain, or pubalgia, is often encountered in soccer players and is probably caused by the biomechanics of forceful kicking in which abdominal muscles and hip flexors and adductors are ...

Plagued by tight hip flexors? These moves will prime your body ... Foam roll or use a lacrosse ball to work over your quads, adductors, glutes, and more, Holder recommends. Before you start ...

Gym Smarts: Stretching Part Two Also for a healthy person what important stretch to do is to get the groin muscles stretched ... Also the hip flexor in your quads, basically get some kind of ...

Eligibility criteria Studies included had to (1) measure hip adductor or abductor strength in healthy athletes ... and strength assessment (muscle tested, body position, units of measurement).