tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11306479.post-1169502554317176802007-01-22T14:05:00.000-07:002007-03-07T12:33:55.243-07:00If your butt, groin and thigh muscles hurt like mine, it's likely the <span id="gtbmisp_46" style="border: 0pt none ; margin: 0pt; padding: 0pt; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0%; font-family: serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; font-size: 100%; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; position: static; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial; text-align: left; text-indent: 0pt; text-transform: none; color: red; text-decoration: underline; cursor: pointer;">adductor</span> muscles need attention.<br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/35/698/1600/120443/adductor_muscles2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/35/698/320/687907/adductor_muscles2.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br />There's five of them. They extend from the pelvis to the thigh bone and the pelvis to the knee.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/35/698/1600/980841/lower%20adductors.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/35/698/320/600458/lower%20adductors.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br />The <span id="gtbmisp_47" style="border: 0pt none ; margin: 0pt; padding: 0pt; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0%; font-family: serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; font-size: 100%; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; position: static; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial; text-align: left; text-indent: 0pt; text-transform: none; color: red; text-decoration: underline; cursor: pointer;">adductors</span> main function is to pull the legs together.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/35/698/1600/36954/thadduc-1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/35/698/320/973756/thadduc-1.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br />I find the lateral extension difficult to do, however I'm doing it better now than I did six weeks <a href="http://selfhealth.blogspot.com/2007/01/24-hours-post-op.html">ago</a>.<br /><br />There are two lateral extensions in the Hip and Knee Clinic booklet. If you are just starting the program I recommend you do those as much as you can prior to surgery.Bruce Winternoreply@blogger.com