Muscles / Hips
Pectineus
- Hips
- Hip & gluteal
- Intermediate layer
Anatomy
- Origin
- Superior pubic ramus (pecten pubis)
- Insertion
- Pectineal line of the femur, just below the lesser trochanter
- Nerve
- Femoral nerve; sometimes a branch of the obturator nerve (L2-L3)
Actions
- Adducts and flexes the hip
- Assists medial rotation
Exercises that train it most
Copenhagen adduction
Adductor squeeze (isometric)
Standing cable hip adduction
Side-lying inner thigh lift
References (4)
- Standring S, ed. Elsevier. Gray's Anatomy: The Anatomical Basis of Clinical Practice. 42nd ed.
- Dalley AF, Agur AMR. Wolters Kluwer. Moore's Clinically Oriented Anatomy. 9th ed.
- Neumann DA. Elsevier. Kinesiology of the Musculoskeletal System: Foundations for Rehabilitation. 3rd ed.
- Betts JG, Young KA, Wise JA, et al. OpenStax (free, openly licensed textbook). Anatomy and Physiology 2e