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Because previous injury is the best predictor of future injury, it’s important that hockey players do everything they can to avoid these injuries in the first place. In order to design exercises that prevent groin injuries, it is necessary to fully understand the role of the involved muscles.

What Is The Groin?

When people refer to the “groin” they’re really referring to a group of muscles known as the “adductors”. This muscle group is comprised of 5 major muscles (adductor magnus, adductor longus, adductor brevis, gracilis, and pectineus), some of which also assist in hip extension (moving the thigh backward) and hip flexion (moving the thigh forward). Of these, the adductors that also assist in hip flexion are the most commonly injured. These are the muscles that most directly decelerate the skating stride leg (hip extension, abduction, and external rotation), and rapidly return the leg back under the body. As you can imagine, these muscles are under a lot of stress during practices and games with hundreds of repetitive high force, high velocity skating strides. It probably shouldn’t surprise you then to learn that these muscles are usually strained during the pre-season, when players aren’t accustomed to the unique stresses the skating stride places on the body.

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