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The adductors of the hip are part of the inner hip musculature and range from the lower pelvic bone to the femur and knee region. Thereby it lies in between the extensor and flexor group of the thigh muscles.

The hip adductors shape the surface anatomy of the medial thigh. The innervation is mainly supplied by the obturator nerve which arises from the lumbar plexus and reaches the adductors through the obturator canal; two muscles have a double innervation.

There are six hip adductor muscles in total. These are the adductor magnus muscle (one of the biggest muscles in the human anatomy), the adductor brevis muscle, the adductor longus muscle, the adductor minimus muscle, the pectineus muscle and the gracilis muscle.

As the name suggests, the main function of the hip adductor muscles is to adduct the hip.

In this video, we explore the hip adductor muscles in more detail. You’ll learn about:

0:08 Definition and location of the hip adductors
0:29 Innervation of the hip adductors
0:45 The pectineus muscle
1:01 The adductor magnus muscle
1:28 The adductor longus muscle
1:45 The adductor brevis muscle
1:56 The adductor minimus muscle
2:13 The gracilis muscle
2:31 The adductor canal
3:03 Function of the hip adductors

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Read more on the hip adductors in this article, where we explore the hip adductors in much more detail, including a look into the relevance of adductor muscle tears and Little's disease:
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