Groin Strain / Adductors
What it Effects
- There are five adductor muscles that can be affected
- There is a rhyme to remember them - three ducks peck at grass = Adductor Brevis, Adductor Longus, Adductor Magnus, Pectineus and Gracilis
Who it Effects
- Common in footballers
- People with poor core stability
- People with tight adductors
Mechanism of Injury
- Playing football
- Can be postural related
- Over stretching
- Explosives movements especially if not warmed up properly
Signs and Symptoms
- Tightness (grade one strain)
- Pain
- Cramp like sensation (grade one strain)
- Pain walking and sore to touch (grade two strain)
- Bruising
- Severe sharp stabbing pain (grade three)
- Muscle spasm
- Swelling
- There will be more passive range of movement available than active range of movement
- Resisted movements will be weak and very painful
Treatment
- PRICE
- Deep transverse frictions
- Ultrasound
- Stretching
- Postural management
- Core stability - work transverse abdominus
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