Muscle · Hips

Adductor longus

Musculus adductor longus

The most superficial and most visible of the adductors — the muscle that forms the cord you can see at the top of the inner thigh. It leaves the front of the pubic bone by a narrow tendon and fans back to the middle of the linea aspera, pulling the thigh inward and helping to flex the hip. Because it starts on a small tendon and works hard in sprinting, kicking and change of direction, its proximal attachment is the classic site of groin complaints. The founder's system frames the group's contribution as adduction plus pelvic control — the adductors are half of the pair that decides whether the pelvis is steady when you stand on one leg.