groin pain

Sportsman's Hernia

Definition

 

Groin pain in athletes

- secondary to tear in external oblique fascia

 

Epidemiology

 

Sports with aggressive adduction

- hockey / soccer

 

Pathology

 

Tears in external oblique fascia

- tend to be central

- around spermatic cord and ilioinguinal nerve

- pain may be from nerve entrapment

 

DDx

 

Adductor Longus Tear