Are we failing athletes with recurrent groin pain by focusing on group-level biomechanical analysis of their movement strategies?

Abstract

Introduction: Groin pain recurrence occurs in a variety of sports that require repetitive change of direction (COD) to evade an opponent(s). Although three-dimensional (3D) motion analysis exploring between-group differences during COD is the traditional approach, it limits the identification of individual differences and potential clinical implications. This exploratory study questions if group-level analysis overlooks individual differences in reactive COD technique observed with individual analysis of male athletes with and without a self-reported history of groin pain.