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adductors 

Extraocular muscles that move the eye inward, such as the medial rectus, the inferior rectus and the superior rectus. See extraocular muscles.
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The thigh adductor muscles include gracilis, adductor longus, adductor brevis, adductor magnus and pectineus muscle.
Localizacion de los Puntos de Entrada del Nervio de los Musculos Aductores del Muslo Mediante Tomografia Computarizada Espiral: Una Nueva Guia Anatomica para la Neurolosis Quimica en el Tratamiento de la Espasticidad Muscular
Our findings suggest that this modified ten-week protocol that benefits from strengthening the muscles affecting the pelvis, core stabilization, hip adductor stretching, and high intensity eccentric exercise of the hip adductors may have a considerable effect on primary measured outcomes including pain, hip adductor and abductor muscle strength, hip ROM, functional ability, and returning to sport.
The Effect of Therapeutic Exercise on Long-Standing Adductor-Related Groin Pain in Athletes: Modified Holmich Protocol
The hip abductor and adductor muscles generated a hip force that mainly lay in the frontal plane; the former was oriented from 27[degrees] to -4[degrees] while the latter was oriented from 34[degrees] to 27[degrees] as the hip adduction angle changed between 0[degrees] and -39[degrees] hip adduction.
Femoral Neck Strain during Maximal Contraction of Isolated Hip-Spanning Muscle Groups
Twenty-three percent of patients underwent a concomitant adductor release.
Sports hernia and extra-articular causes of groin pain in the athlete
Static: The hip adductors were passively stretched for 30 seconds in 4 sets separated by 30 second intervals.
Immediate effect of static and proprioceptive neuromuscular facilitation stretching on hip adductor flexibility in female ballet dancers
The groin pain may stem from the lumbar spine, sacroiliac joint, symphysis pubis stress, rectus abdominis tear, sports hernia, iliopsoas pathology or adductor musculotendinous pathology.
Adductor tendinopathy in a hockey player with persistent groin pain: a case report
Without stretching this area the muscles will become tight and the hip joint restricted, affecting your ability to perform to your potential and will increase your risk of adductor, hamstring and quadriceps.
Be better by a long stretch; Improving flexibility helps enhance your overall performance
Sea stars preferentially consumed mussels with gaps in shell closures, although these mussels also had larger adductor muscles compared with mussels rejected.
Shell traits of a marine mussel mediate predation selectivity by crabs and sea stars
At any age, the injury may become irritated when people are carrying something and walking downstairs, when they have little control over the adductor muscles.
Rehabilitating a groin pull
These injuries--referred to as musculotendinous injuries--most often involve the adductor longus muscle, but they can also include some of the hip flexor muscles such as the iliopsoas, rectus femoris and sartorius or one of the other adductors such as the gracilis muscle.
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Three muscle groups in the affected lower limb of each patient were assessed: hip adductors, knee extensors, and ankle plantar flexors.
Measurement of lower-limb muscle spasticity: intrarater reliability of Modified Modified Ashworth scale

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