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Sports Medicine
intermediate
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Athletic Groin Pain - Diagnosis and Management

Hip and Groin

A 26-year-old professional soccer player presents with 6 months of insidious-onset groin pain, worse with kicking and sprinting. Pain is localized to the proximal adductor region. Examination shows tenderness at the adductor longus insertion and positive adductor squeeze test at 45 degrees of hip flexion. He has full hip range of motion with no impingement signs. Regarding athletic groin pain:

Mark each as TRUE or FALSE

A

The Doha Agreement (2015) classifies athletic groin pain into four clinical entities: adductor-relat...

B

The adductor squeeze test performed at 45 degrees hip flexion is the most sensitive test for adducto...

C

MRI is essential before initiating treatment for athletic groin pain; surgical intervention is first...

D

The Copenhagen adductor strengthening protocol is first-line treatment for adductor-related groin pa...

E

Inguinal-related groin pain (sports hernia or athletic pubalgia) may present with no clinical hernia...

Answer the questions to see explanations

Click T (True) or F (False) for each option