ArticleThe American journal of sports medicine2021
Hip Muscle Strength Explains Only 11% of the Improvement in HAGOS With an Intersegmental Approach to Successful Rehabilitation of Athletic Groin Pain.
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- Pain Sensitivity, Psychological Factors, and Muscle Function in Male Athletes With Long-Standing Groin Pain and Matched Controls.Scandinavian journal of medicine & science in sports · 2026Article
- Adductor-Related Athletic Groin Pain: A Clinical Commentary.International journal of sports physical therapy · 2026Article
- Muscle Synergy During Cutting Movements in Athletes with a History of Groin Pain.Sports (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- The Sheen Paajanen grOin Recommended Treatment 'SPoRT' score for groin pain.Hernia : the journal of hernias and abdominal wall surgery · 2023Article
- Biomechanical Asymmetry of Strength and Dynamic Balance Kinetics in Middle-Ages with Adhesive Capsulitis of the Hip.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Movement Variability and Loading Characteristics in Athletes With Athletic Groin Pain: Changes After Successful Return to Play and Compared With Uninjured Athletes.Orthopaedic journal of sports medicine · 2022Article
- Soccer players show the highest seasonal groin pain prevalence and the longest time loss from sport among 500 athletes from major team sports.Knee surgery, sports traumatology, arthroscopy : official journal of the ESSKA · 2022Article
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Abstract
backgroundExercise-based rehabilitation targeting intersegmental control has high success rates and fast recovery times in the management of athletic groin pain (AGP). The influence of this approach on hip strength and lower limb reactive strength and how these measures compare with uninjured athletes (CON) remain unknown. Additionally, the efficacy of this program after return to play (RTP) has not been examined. PURPOSE: First, to examine differences in isometric hip strength, reactive strength, and the Hip and Groin Outcome Score (HAGOS) between the AGP and CON cohorts and after rehabilitation; second, to examine the relationship between the change in HAGOS and the change in strength variables after rehabilitation; last, to track HAGOS for 6 months after RTP. STUDY
designCohort study; Level of evidence, 2.
methodsA total of 42 athletes diagnosed with AGP and 36 matched controls completed baseline testing: isometric hip strength, lower limb reactive strength, and HAGOS. After rehabilitation, athletes with AGP were retested, and HAGOS was collected at 3 and 6 months after RTP.
resultsIn total, 36 athletes with AGP completed the program with an RTP time of 9.8 ± 3.0 weeks (mean ± SD). At baseline, these athletes had significantly lower isometric hip strength (abduction, adduction, flexion, extension, external rotation:
conclusionAthletes with AGP demonstrated isometric hip strength and reactive strength deficits that resolved after an intersegmental control rehabilitation program; however, improved hip strength explained only 11% of improvement in the Sports and Recreation subscale. HAGOS improvements after pain-free RTP were maintained at 6 months.
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