Sports hernia or groin disruption injury? Chronic athletic groin pain: a retrospective study of 100 patients with long-term follow-up

Hernia

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 815-823

  Garvey, J F W ^a   Hazard, H ^b  

^a Groin Pain Clinic   (Australia)

^b NONE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Adductor tendinopathy; Athletic pubalgia; Conjoint tendinopathy; Groin disruption injury; Osteitis pubis; Sports hernia

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANALGESIC AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATHLETIC PUBALGIA; AVULSION FRACTURE; CHILD; CHRONIC PAIN; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HERNIOPLASTY; HUMAN; INGUINAL HERNIA; INGUINAL PAIN; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MUSCLE ATROPHY; NEURALGIA; NEUROPRAXIA; OSTEITIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUS ABDOMINIS MUSCLE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPIGELIAN HERNIA; SPORT INJURY; SURGICAL MESH; TENDINITIS; TENDON RECONSTRUCTION; TENOTOMY; WOUND INFECTION; ATHLETIC INJURIES; COMPLICATION; ECHOGRAPHY; FOOTBALL; HERNIA; HERNIORRHAPHY; INGUINAL REGION; INJURIES; LAPAROSCOPY; MIDDLE AGED; ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOTHERAPY; PROCEDURES; PUBIC BONE; PUBIS SYMPHYSIS; RADIOGRAPHY; TENDINOPATHY;

ADULT; ANALGESICS; ATHLETIC INJURIES; CHRONIC PAIN; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FOOTBALL; GROIN; HERNIA; HERNIORRHAPHY; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORTHOPEDIC PROCEDURES; OSTEITIS; PHYSICAL THERAPY MODALITIES; PUBIC BONE; PUBIC SYMPHYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TENDINOPATHY;

EID: 84920870440     PISSN: 12654906     EISSN: 12489204     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10029-013-1161-0     Document Type: Article

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