"To squat, you also need the adductor and abductor muscles to hold the legs in place and the iliopsoas to fine-tune your descent and keep you in balance," he adds. Quadriceps are the muscles at ...

Depending on the vocal cord muscles that are affected, there are three types: adductor (involuntary vocal cord closing), abductor (involuntary vocal cord opening), or mixed. Adductor SD is more common ...

Acute muscle strain occurs as a result of an eccentric ... To date, only the (hip) adductor longus was shown to sustain this type of injury. In this case report, I describe the first published ...

Change of direction and reaching injuries were categorised as closed chain movements (59%), characterised by hip extension and abduction ... muscle activation during a rapid muscle lengthening appears ...

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 ...