Groin Injuries (Athletic Pubalgia) and Return to Play.

ABSTRACT:

Context

Groin pain is a common entity in athletes involved in sports that require acute cutting, pivoting, or kicking such as soccer and ice hockey. Athletic pubalgia is increasingly recognized as a common cause of chronic groin and adductor pain in athletes. It is considered an overuse injury predisposing to disruption of the rectus tendon insertion to the pubis and weakness of the posterior inguinal wall without a clinically detectable hernia. These patients often require surgical therapy after failure of nonoperative measures. A variety of surgical options have been used, and most patients improve and return to high-level competition.

Evidence acquisition

PubMed databases were searched to identify relevant scientific and review articles from January 1920 to January 2015 u

SUBMITTER: Elattar O 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4922526 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature