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Adductor Vibration Release

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Learn how to target adductor muscles with a massage gun using optimal patient positioning—supine with hip flexed 60–90°, knee at 90°. Includes guidance for palpating gracilis, adductor longus, pectineus, brevis, and magnus, identifying trigger points, and protecting bony landmarks.

Best Body Position:

  • These muscles are easiest to address with the patient in supine and hip flexed to 60-90° of horizontal abduction, knee at 90° of flexion, and patient's foot resting on your anterior superior iliac spine (ASIS) or patient's opposite knee (as pictured above).

Bony Areas: (Block with a thumb or finger when approaching these areas)

  • Medial condyles of the femur

Muscles

  • Adductors comprise the entire inner thigh between the quadriceps and the semimembranosus and semitendinous (semi's) . The adductors can be located by feeling for a contraction using broad palpation (webspace from index finger to thumb) on the inner thigh and asking the patient to adduct against manual resistance. Assuming that your palpation is at approximately mid-point of the length of the thigh. The muscles that will be felt are the gracilis and adductor longus .
    • Trigger points: Common trigger points for the gracilis and adductor longus are roughly 1/3rd and 2/3rd the length of the inner thigh. Common trigger points for the pectineus and adductor brevis can be located in approximately the middle of the floor of the femoral triangle. Common trigger points for the adductor magnus are close to mid-length of the thigh and close to the origin of the muscle near the ischial tuberosity.

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