Combating Inner Thigh Pain with Stretching

Stretching helps to reduce risk of joint pain, injuries, and muscle damage. Keeping flexibility in the joints and muscles is important for mobility and reducing pain. The areas often targeted are back, shoulders and neck. An area that is equally as important but often forgotten is the inner thighs.

Stretching the inner thighs can help with many other areas of the body. Dr. Dan Giordano, a Doctor of Physical Therapy, states how “lack of mobility in the inner thighs may result in poor pelvic positioning, pain at the inner knee, or pain in the lower back”. Stretching the inner thighs (adductors) can help maintain and improve the range of motion and the mobility.

Stretching followed by strengthening exercises can help with stability. As stability improves, if you trip you will be able to stabilize yourself better and more quickly to prevent the actual fall from occurring.

Stretching the inner thighs, and stretching in general, also helps promote circulation to muscles and joints, reduce tension, and helps reduce muscle stiffness.

It’s important to stretch the inner thighs properly. Slowly move into the stretch, pause, and repeat slowly improving your range of motion. Never push the stretch to a spot that is painful. Stretch therapy can help target the inner thighs and other forgotten areas. Trained fascial stretch therapists will talk to you and ensure that you are getting the most out of the stretch, without taking the stretch too far.

Source:

https://www.wellandgood.com/how-to-stretch-inner-thigh/