Groin Injuries
A 28-year-old professional soccer player presents with chronic groin pain worsened by kicking, sprinting, and cutting movements. The pain began insidiously and has persisted for 6 months. There is no palpable hernia. He has tenderness at the pubic tubercle and pain with resisted hip adduction. MRI shows bone marrow edema at the pubic symphysis. Regarding athletic pubalgia:
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Athletic pubalgia (sports hernia, core muscle injury) is a syndrome of chronic groin pain in athlete...
The anatomic structures involved include the rectus abdominis insertion, conjoined tendon (internal ...
Athletic pubalgia always presents with a palpable inguinal hernia; it affects sedentary individuals ...
Diagnosis is clinical with MRI showing pubic bone marrow edema, adductor tendinopathy, or rectus abd...
Conservative treatment includes rest, NSAIDs, core strengthening, and adductor stretching; physical ...
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