adductor muscle

Introduction

Medial thigh muscles

• Adductor longus
• Adductor brevis
• Adductor magnus
• Gracilis
• Obturator externus

Action

• Adduct the thigh
• Important stabilizing muscles during flexion & extension of the thigh Innercation:
• obturator nerve (lumbar spinal nerve L2-L4)

Physical examination

Testing of thigh muscles:

• Person lying in supine position with the knee straight
• Person adducts the thigh against resistence.
• If the adductors are normal, the proximal end of the gracilis & adductor longus can easily be palpitated

More general terms

• skeletal muscle (voluntary muscle)

Additional terms

• nerve to adductor brevis
• nerve to adductor longus
• nerve to adductor magnus
• nerve to gracilis
• nerve to obturator externus

Component of

• thigh