A 32-year-old man who worked as a National Hockey League offenseman described a noncontact injury to the left groin at the end of a long practice session. Although fatigued, he had had no warning ...

Andy Pettitte, the Yankees 38 year-old left-hander, has been out of action with a left Grade I groin strain since experiencing pain after serving up a slider in the third inning on July 18th. Though ...

The main adductors of the hip are the adductor magnus muscle, the adductor longus muscle, and the adductor brevis muscle. These adductors are assisted by the gracilis and the pectineus. The gracilis ...

1 Department of Sports Medicine, Medical Faculty of Süleyman Demirel University, Isparta, Turkey 2 Department of Sports Medicine, Medical Faculty of Uludag University, Bursa, Turkey 3 Department of ...

Department of Anatomy, Otago School of Medical Sciences, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand Correspondence to Stephanie J Woodley, Department of Anatomy, Otago School of Medical Sciences, ...

Leg conditioning puts great importance on strengthening the inner thigh muscles. The Primary Exercises that work the hip adductor muscles are those that work on the inside of the thigh and thus should ...

This case conforms to current scientific and clinical data [2,3,4,5,6,7,8] describing acute muscle injuries in that a hip adductor strain occurred as a result of a forceful eccentric contraction, was ...