What Are the Groin Muscles?
The groin muscles are a group of muscles situated high on the leg in the inner thigh. This group includes the adductor magnus, adductor longus, and adductor brevis muscles, as well as the pectineus and gracilis. Collectively referred to as the hip adductors, the groin muscles are responsible for adduction of the hip, or drawing the leg in sideways toward the midline of the body. Found to either side of the groin area along the inside of the thigh, the groin muscles all find their origins on the pubic bone. The pubis, as it is known, is a curved bone on the bottom of the pelvis. It sits medial to, or to the inside of, the ischium bone in the lower pelvis and below the ilium bone, which is the large butterfly-wing-shaped bone of the pelvis.
