At the end of my long on Saturday, I decided to push the pace and I ended up with a adductor strain. Its a grade 1 strain since there is no bruising and I don’t feel it walking around. I took Sunday off running and attempted a 3 mile run today. I was able to run at my normal pace but I could feel it for sure. It seemed to aggravated a little too. Do you just continue to run easy or just take more than a few days off running?
You might need to be a bit more specific about where exactly you feel the pain. There are several muscles running the length of your leg that are part of the group called “adductors”, and which one is in pain will determine treatment. Smaller adductors can be treated easily with a foam roller. Larger ones or pain at the attachment take more force. Or you might in fact have a quadricep or hamstring issue that is dragging in an adductor.
Its pretty high up the leg. It doesn’t hurt to lift leg up towards chest but I feel it if I move my leg to the side (adduct). If I had to guess, I would say the pectineus or addubctor longus.
Its pretty high up the leg. It doesn’t hurt to lift leg up towards chest but I feel it if I move my leg to the side (adduct). If I had to guess, I would say the pectineus or addubctor longus.
Abduction is moving your leg out to the side away from your body. Adduction is moving your leg towards you closer to your body’s midline. I’m assuming you meant moving your leg to the side away causes pain?
Adductor magnus has 2 heads and one acts as a hip extensor like a hamstring. Some adductors will also have some involvement in hip flexion. Not a bad idea to get it checked out. And don’t just stretch the crap out of it, find out what IT is first.
Good luck.
Sorry…I meant abduction.
So the pain is high up, toward the back of the leg / sitbone? If so, it may be more than an adductor. You may also be looking at some hamstring attachment problems, which means finding a massage therapist to dig around and locate the issue. Getting a massage ball (as opposed to a foam roller) will help if you can’t get to a therapist. Sit on the ground, place the ball around your sitbone, and start rolling it using your weight until you find the point of pain: that will help identify the muscle that’s the problem. If it is hamstring attachment or adductor longus, you can take a break from running (you’ll eventually have to because of the pain) but the rest won’t solve your problem. Sorry.
If it’s toward the front of the leg, you’re in luck since those are much easier to deal with than back-of-the leg problems! Haul out the foam roller, lay chest-down on the ground, and roll the front and inside of your legs looking for knots or points of acute pain.
Exactly: do not assume that stretching will solve everything. The attachments at the sitbone can easily be worsened by the wrong type of stretching.
No its in the front of the leg and inner thigh.