So try not to ignore your adductors/abductors. Where possible, develop a stretching program that includes the muscles that contract and stretch your inner thighs, as well as those that help your hip abductors both stabilize the pelvis and move the leg out to the side.

Trigger points in the glutes can refer through the lower back, hip, and into the leg. Because of their role in walking and basic stability, dysfunction in the gluteal muscles can easily impact clients’ daily lives and result in pain and holding patterns.

Trigger points in the gluteus medius may refer pain locally to the buttocks and hips but are more commonly associated with lower back pain where they likely form part of the same, wider holding pattern.