Description of pain provocation tests used for the diagnosis of sports-related chronic groin pain: Relationship of tests to defined clinical (pain and tenderness) and MRI (pubic bone marrow oedema) criteria

Scandinavian Journal of Medicine and Science in Sports

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 36-42

  Verrall, Geoffrey M ^a   Slavotinek, John P ^b   Barnes, Peter G ^a   Fon, Gerald T ^c  

^a Sportsmed SA   (Australia)

^b FLINDERS MEDICAL CENTRE   (Australia)

^c Perrett Medical Imaging   (Australia)

Author keywords

Clinical tests; Groin pain; MRI; Pubic bone stress injury

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATHLETE; BILATERAL ADDUCTOR TEST; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; HUMAN; INGUINAL PAIN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PAIN; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PREDICTION; PROVOCATION TEST; SINGLE ADDUCTOR TEST; SPORT INJURY; SQUEEZE TEST;

BONE MARROW DISEASES; CHRONIC DISEASE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EDEMA; FOOTBALL; GROIN; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PAIN; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PUBIC BONE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOCCER;

EID: 13944271512     PISSN: 09057188     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0838.2004.00380.x     Document Type: Article

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