Adductor tenotomy as a treatment for groin pain in professional soccer players

Orthopedics

Volumn 36, Issue 9, 2013, Pages

  Mei Dan, Omer ^a,d   Lopez, Vicente ^a   Carmont, Michael R ^b   Mcconkey, Mark O ^c   Steinbacher, Gilbert ^a   Alvarez, Pedro D ^a   Cugat, Ramon B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Delegación Catalana ^*  (Spain)

^c PRINCESS ROYAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^d Pacific Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL WALL MUSCULATURE; ADDUCTOR TENOTOMY; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATHLETE; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; GROIN PAIN; HERNIOPLASTY; HUMAN; INGUINAL REGION; LOWER ABDOMINAL PAIN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MUSCLE DISEASE; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PAIN; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; RECREATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCORING SYSTEM; TENOTOMY;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GROIN; HUMANS; MALE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SOCCER; TENDINOPATHY; TENOTOMY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84885704728     PISSN: 01477447     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3928/01477447-20130821-23     Document Type: Article

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