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VIDEO: Adductor stretching
By on 20/02/2013 10:21:08
ASICS Pro Team physio Sarah Connors shows how to stretch your adductor muscles, on the inside of your thigh
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Bodyworks: Adductor Injuries
By Patrick Milroy on 05/06/2000 13:47:57
How to recognise them, how to overcome them
, but also rotational, and each of these movements requires appropriately placed muscle contractions. Some muscles even perform two functions, depending on the position of the hip. The function of the adductor muscles is to pull the thighs together and rotate
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Injury-proof your body: Thighs & Hips (Preview)
By Ted Spiker on 08/06/2007 11:28:18
The powerhouse muscles of our hips and thighs drive us forward, ensure we land safely and help keep our knees and feet in good working order. Here's how to make sure they stay healthy (non-subscriber preview)
Runners know how to rank their body parts. Most vulnerable? It has to be the knees. Most tortured? Feet. Most powerful? When it comes to speed, endurance and holding the strength that gets us uphill, downhill and everywhere in between, most of us would find it hard to credit any...
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Injury-proof your body: Thighs & Hips
By Ted Spiker on 08/06/2007 10:39:47
The powerhouse muscles of our hips and thighs drive us forward, ensure we land safely and help keep our knees and feet in good working order. Here's how to make sure they stay healthy
Runners know how to rank their body parts. Most vulnerable? It has to be the knees. Most tortured? Feet. Most powerful? When it comes to speed, endurance and holding the strength that gets us uphill, downhill and everywhere in between, most of us would find it hard to credit any...
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Injuries A-Z
By Runner's World on 05/06/2002 12:43:09
From Achilles Rupture through to, okay, Tibial Periositis, this is the complete RW guide to running injuries
Hamstring InjuriesMuscle HerniaQuadriceps InjuriesHip injuriesAdductor InjuriesIliotibial (Fricton) Band Syndrome (ITBS)
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Will a hernia really stop me running for 9 months?
By Andrew Caldwell on 09/09/2000 10:02:10
Our experts answer real-life questions
package. With groin-related injuries, this needs to address the strength of the muscles around the lumbar spine, abdomen and hip (particularly the inner thigh or adductor muscles). With chronic groin injuries, one of the most common treatment techniques
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Bodyworks: Quadriceps Injuries
By Patrick Milroy on 05/06/2000 15:55:57
How to recognise them, how to overcome them
it is not impossible for a stress fracture of the femur, an adductor muscle tear or referred pain from the lower back to appear as quadriceps pain.Self-treatmentThe basic principles of RICE apply to early management. This should occupy 48 hours, with ice being applied
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Q+A: Leg-length discrepancy causes me knee pain...
By Martin Haines on 09/09/2000 10:02:10
Our experts answer real-life questions
) may aggravate your injury. Once these have been done, you can start thinking about exercises like leg presses (to strengthen your knee) and seated hip abductor and adductor exercises as a precursor to returning to running.Martin Haines, chartered
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Yoga for Runners: Position 8 - Dandayamana Bibhaktapada Paschimotthanasana
By Alexandra Rees on 06/09/2011 12:35:14
out the hamstrings and the tendons around the knee which can get tight and inflexible when running.""The angle at which your legs are spread also gives a secondary stretch to the adductor muscles (inner thighs) which in turn help release tightness
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Yoga for Runners: Stretch Your Way to a Faster 5K
By Alexandra Rees on 27/04/2011 10:55:10
Discover how yoga could help your running, and why nursery rhymes are actually very scientific...
of thighs), hip adductors (inner thighs) and ITB are also considered 'core' muscles.This lot need to be strong but flexible; running may make you strong, but definitely not flexible. Running is the 'ying' to yoga's 'yang'; complementary opposites, and Bikram
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