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Leg adductor pain is a common issue that affects athletes who play sports that involve frequent changes of direction, such as football, rugby, tennis, and basketball.
The patients generally refer to adductor muscle pain as groin and hip pain.
It is caused by tendon inflammation, stiffness or injury of the adductor muscles which are located on the inner part of the thigh.
Any stop-and-go movement or change of direction in our body involves the strong activation of the hip muscles, both adductors and abductor muscles. For these reasons, footballers and gymnastics are often affected by adductor muscle pain or injury.
The most common muscle injury that causes adductor pain is the so-called Inguinal or groin strain.
Even if the main targets of a deep tissue massage for adductor pain are the adductor muscles of the leg, it should target the antagonist muscles too. The antagonist muscles of the adductor are the abductor muscles of the leg. In fact, by increasing the flexibility of the adductor muscles’ antagonist, there will be less mechanical resistance to the adduction of the leg.
The group of adductor muscles are disposed on the medial face of the thigh and three layers and they are:
If you have been experiencing adductor muscle pain for more than three weeks it is advisable to check if you had a muscle strain or other type of muscle injury.
The best medical diagnostic to identify adductor muscle injury are:
With these two medical diagnostics, you will be able to understand the condition of the adductor muscle and if there has been muscle fibre damage or tendon inflammation.
With an accurate diagnosis, the physiotherapist or sports therapist will be able to set up the best recovery plan for you.
We can test the degree of extensibility of the adductor muscle with a simple muscle test called Janda’s Test.
The patient is laid on the side and is instructed to abduct the leg not laid on the floor.
Based on the range of abduction of the leg we can have different grades of adductor muscles’ shortening such as:
The best injury prevention plan to follow in order to reduce the chances of getting adductor muscle pain or muscle injury is a combination of self-treatment such as:
Stretching is like a workout for the flexibility of your muscles and has the action of a self-massage. Keeping your adductor muscles flexible and loose will reduce the chances of getting muscle pain, and muscle injury, and will improve your sports performance as well.
Also, if you get a sports massage or deep tissue massage for prevention ( before getting muscle pain ), an expert sports therapist will find your initial muscle tension, trigger point, and knots which, building up with time, could lead you to muscle injury or muscle pain.
In our sports injury clinic in London, we have designed a specific treatment for hip and groin pain.
Our hip and groin pain treatment is a physiotherapy protocol which combines different types of therapies such as:
This specific physiotherapy treatment protocol will allow at the same time cure the symptoms and treat the underlying causes of your hip and groin pain.
The best hands-on physiotherapy to treat scar tissue formation from adductor muscle injury is the so-called diacutaneous fibrolysis, which is a specific instrument-assisted soft tissue mobilisation technique performed with stainless tools with a hook shape.
After an adductor muscle injury where a certain grade of muscle tear is present, there will be a certain amount of scar tissue formation.
If the muscle injury is treated by following the classic RICE approach ( Rest, Ice, Compression, Elevation ), it will heal by itself as well, but it will favour an amount of scar tissue superior to that with a proper muscle injury treatment.
In our sports injury clinic in London, we have designed a specific treatment to reduce as much as possible scar tissue formation and adhesions, thanks to the use of these stainless tools, which can break the scar tissue and reduce muscle friction and adhesions.
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