Sentences with phrase «hip adductors»

It also safely strengthens the weak hip adductor muscles to reduce aches and pains, so it has a benefit of pain relief.

There are preliminary indications that hip adductor strengthening programs may be beneficial for reducing the incidence of adductor - related groin strain injury (Engebretsen et al. 2008; Hölmich et al. 2010; see review by Esteve et al. 2015) and also that wearing compression shorts may be beneficial for reducing the load on the adductor longus during return to sport post-injury, by virtue of reducing the muscle activity during cutting actions (Chaudhari et al. 2014).

For example, Masuda et al. (2005) found that ball velocity during maximal kicking efforts by university soccer players was associated with hip adductor but not knee extensor torque production during isokinetic testing.

The obturator externus and pectineus seem to be less important hip adductors, with muscle moment arm lengths of just 2.4 cm and 3.2 cm, respectively (Dostal et al. 1986).

The other hip adductor muscles similarly do not display large hip internal (or external, as denoted by negative numbers) rotation muscle moment arms in the anatomical position.

Such weakness in the ratio of hip adduction to hip abduction may be related to increased hip adductor to hip abductor muscle activity (Morrissey et al. 2012).

This will actively get your hip flexors and hip adductor muscles fired up at the same time.

In addition to some cardio and core strengthening, you'll also seriously work your hip adductors and abductors, Dr. Miller says.

These muscles work to push your hips out and move your legs away from your body's midline, and as they contract, the other group — the hip adductors — relaxes.

But first, let's take a closer look at the antagonistic pair of muscles that cause movement at the hip joint — the hip abductors and the hip adductors.

The remaining muscles involved in knee support and movement are the hip abductors (outer thigh) and hip adductors (inner thigh), the calf muscles and the glutes (the muscles of your buttocks).

Step away from the adductor machine At my gym, most of the girls who do any kind of weight training come in, quickly bang out a few reps of the lighest weight possible on the hip adductor and abductor machines and then leave.

Stretching these hip adductors can be done by stretches that spread your legs apart, lengthening these muscles.

The hip adductors are to hip abductors as the quads are to the hams; they are essentially opposites.

Even when COD ability tests involve a heavy lateral component, the main drivers of performance are not the hip adductors.

In addition, the hip adductors are subject to age - related atrophy in the elderly (Johnson et al. 2004), which makes programs designed to rehabilitate this muscle group important for both athletic and general populations.

The muscle moment arms in adduction for the adductor magnus exceed those of hip extension, showing that this muscle is still definitively a hip adductor as well as a hip extensor.

Weak hip adductors (see reviews by Hrysomallis, 2009; Ryan et al. 2014; studies by Crow et al. 2010; Nevin and Delahunt, 2014) or weak hip adductors relative to the hip abductors (Thorborg et al. 2011) have been identified as predictive of adductor - related groin pain or increased risk of adductor - related groin strain injury.

The hip adductors are commonly injured in many sports, particularly ice hockey (Emery et al. 1999) and soccer, can be very debilitating (see review by Nicholas and Tyler, 2002) and take a long time to heal (see review by Thorborg and Hölmich, 2013).

The adductors have muscle moment arms at the hip that indicate roles as both hip adductors and hip extensors.

The core includes the hip abductors, hip adductors, hip flexors, and the lumbar spine.