When it comes to running, the hips play a central role. One group of muscles often neglected by runners: the hip abductors.

Hip abduction exercises help to strengthen the lower body to improve stability during everyday activities like walking, standing, or lifting and carrying heavy objects. Having strong hip abductors ...

The gluteus medius and minimus muscles act as abductors of the hip. In GT, it is proposed that altered muscle activation patterns and excessive hip adduction in function can result in compression of ...

This week we are going to discuss trigger points about the hip which can mimic other problems in the hip and back, as well as cause their own special kind of misery. These are the abductors and ...

The diagnosis is a hip abductor and hip flexor trigger point when the patient is not allowed to put weight on one leg. When the patient has a fracture, surgery, or other orthopedic condition ...

Here are five core exercises specifically aimed at enhancing hip stability. Plank variations are great for targeting the core ...

Therefore, a simple hip-adductor strengthening programme for prevention of groin injuries is needed. Objective We aimed to investigate the effect of an 8-week hip-adductor strengthening programme, ...

Background The aim of the study was to investigate the abductor hallucis muscle characteristics, defined as dorso-plantar (DP) thickness, medio-lateral (ML) width, and cross-sectional area (CSA ...