These muscles include the piriformis, obturator internus, and gemellus inferior. The muscles that pull the legs together, such as those needed when riding a horse, are the adductor muscles of the hip.

Hip flexors, the muscle group that stretches over the front part of each hip, are used for movements like lifting your knee toward your chest. “The hip flexor is one of the most powerful muscles in ...

Objective We aimed to determine hip and lower-leg muscle strength in people after ACL injury compared with an uninjured control group (between people) and the uninjured contralateral limb (between ...