adductor muscle

Medial thigh muscles 1) Adductor longus 2) Adductor brevis 3) Adductor magnus 4) Gracilis 5) 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

Related

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

References

Clinically Oriented Anatomy, 4th edition, KL Moore & AF Dalley (eds), Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Philadelphia, PA 1999.