ReviewBMC sports science, medicine & rehabilitation2014
Contemporary management of 'Inguinal disruption' in the sportsman's groin.
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- Do we need another randomised controlled trial for sportsman's groin?Hernia : the journal of hernias and abdominal wall surgery · 2026Review
- Integrating Focused Shockwave Therapy into Rehabilitation for Groin Pain Syndrome: A Prospective Study in Soccer Players.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Inguinal-Related Groin Pain and/or Disruption in Athletes: Current Understanding, Assessment and Management Strategies.Open access journal of sports medicine · 2025Review
- The Sheen Paajanen grOin Recommended Treatment 'SPoRT' score for groin pain.Hernia : the journal of hernias and abdominal wall surgery · 2023Article
- Open Surgery for Sportsman's Hernia a Retrospective Study.Frontiers in surgery · 2022Article
- Contemporaneous evaluation of inguinal hernia causation: a European perspective.Hernia : the journal of hernias and abdominal wall surgery · 2020Article
- High insertion of conjoint tendon is associated with inguinal-related groin pain: a MRI study.European radiology · 2020Article
- Imaging of inguinal-related groin pain in athletes.The British journal of radiology · 2018Review
- Groin Injuries (Athletic Pubalgia) and Return to Play.Sports health · 2016Review
- Groin Pain Syndrome Italian Consensus Conference on terminology, clinical evaluation and imaging assessment in groin pain in athlete.BMJ open sport & exercise medicine · 2016Article
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Abstract
backgroundThis article helps define the basic principles to diagnosis and manage one of the surgically correctable causes of the 'painful groin', which is commonly described as the sportsman's groin. DISCUSSION: Often many surgeons will describe a single pathology for the sportsman's groin such as a 'hernia' but often other coexisting etiologies may be present. Management relies on a multidisciplinary approach with a diagnosis initially made by a history of pain in the groin on exercise. Physiotherapy is the recommended first line treatment and is designed to concentrate on strengthening of the abdominal wall muscle and tendon groups around the groin area. Surgery does have a role in the sportsman's groin but only once all conservative measures have been exhausted or if there is a clear identified pathology causing the groin symptoms such as posterior wall defect. Surgical principles for an inguinal disruption include either open or laparoscopic techniques reinforcing the inguinal canal with a mesh or suture repair followed by an active rehabilitation programme. SUMMARY: Once an accurate diagnosis has been achieved, contemporary guidance for inguinal disruption requires a multidisciplinary approach including a specially designed physiotherapy regime and possibly surgery.
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