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Understanding "Sports Hernia" (Athletic Pubalgia) - The Anatomic And Pathophysiologic Basis For Abdominal And Groin Pain In Athletes, William C. Meyers, Edward Yoo, Octavia Devon, Nikhil Jain, Marcia Horner, Cato Lauencin, Adam Zoga
Understanding "Sports Hernia" (Athletic Pubalgia) - The Anatomic And Pathophysiologic Basis For Abdominal And Groin Pain In Athletes, William C. Meyers, Edward Yoo, Octavia Devon, Nikhil Jain, Marcia Horner, Cato Lauencin, Adam Zoga
Department of Radiology Faculty Papers
Recent publicity and some scientific reports suggest increasing success in treating an entity called “sports hernia” - more accurately named athletic pubalgia. The primary purpose of this article is to portray what we believe to be the key concept for understanding this wide variety of abdominal and groin injuries that afflict high performance athletes. These injuries have been plaguing athletes for a long time, and past treatments, based on concepts of occult hernia or simple strains, have generally failed. The former concepts do not take into account the likely mechanisms of injury or various patterns of pain that these athletes …