Kinstretch Highlight: Hip Abduction

Let’s talk knees.
If we’re talking knees, we must also consider the hips and pelvis; they are intrinsically connected. Last week in Kinstretch, we found that connection. And most specifically, we explored the connection between common medial knee pain and the three tissues often implicated-- all originating from the hip and pelvis and inserting into the knee.

The Three Tissues:

1) Sartorius muscle (wraps from the outside pelvis over the hip and quad to the inside knee, and helps flex and externally rotate the hip)

2) Semitendinosus muscle (a hamstring attaching to the inside knee helping with hip extension)

3) Gracilis muscle (an adductor attaching from the pelvis to the inside knee, helping with adduction, knee flexion and tibial internal rotation)

All three share an attachment site at the knee, and affect its function in different ways. Last week we worked each of these tissues, giving particular attention to HIP ADDUCTION/ABDUCTION. Hip abduction is where the leg is brought toward or away from the midline of the body. It is important for running, walking, horseback riding, jiu jitsu, maintaining balance, creating strong knees, and much more.

We primed the hip and knee joints with CARs, then set up PAILs/RAILs and Passive Range Lift-offs to train specifically for more hip abduction and stronger knees.

We talk about all this and more in Kinstretch.

Sundays 12p
Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays 9a
Thursdays 6:15p

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