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.

Stuart Hinds demonstrates the Ober's Test for assessment and a trigger point therapy treatment sequence for iliotibial band syndrome (ITBS) or 'runner's knee'. There are no magic cures for ITBS but in most cases, trigger point therapy can have profound effects.