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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