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ADDUCTOR MUSCLE-TENDON INJURIES A strained adductor muscle or tendon can be a tenacious, enduring injury, causing persistent pain in the inner thigh. If a person feels pain high up near the groin, he or she has injured the tendon of one of the four primary adductor muscles: the gracilis, adductor longus, adductor brevis, or adductor magnus. If the pain is toward the mid- thigh, the muscle fibers are injured. Pain in both places indicates damage to both tendon and muscle fibers. More localized pain felt high up on the pubic ramis suggests an injury to the pectineus—another muscle- tendon unit that assists in adduction, especially when the hip is flexed. In severe cases, even walking hurts, but more commonly, the person feels pain only during vigorous activity or when stretching the inner-thigh adductor longus pectineus adductor brevis gracilis adductor longus adductor magnus Sobotta: Atlas der Anatomie des Mensche © Elsevier GmbH, Urban & Fischer Verlag Munich connect with your colleagues on massageprofessionals.com 91