Abstract

Sports hernia is a component of a more severe injury known as footballer's groin or groin disruption injury which consists of: sports (occult) hernia; conjoint tendon tear; adductor tendinopathy; obturator nerve entrapment; osteitis pubis. A sports hernia occurs through torn muscle fibres of the Internal oblique and Transversus abdominis medial to the inferior epigastric vessels in Hesselbach's triangle of the inguinal (groin) canal of the lower abdomen. The presenting symptom is groin pain, discomfort, ache or lower abdominal pain without a visible or palpable hernia.

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