The Comparative Study between Active Physical Training versus Active Resistance Training in Groin Pain among Young Gymnasts

Abstract

Background: Groin pain are more common in gymnastic sports. Repetitive microtrauma with thwartedrepair might cause persistent injury in the tendon-bone junction. The gymnast with generalizedligamentous laxity is more prone to overuse injuries because lax ligaments fail to provide ligamentstability and further stress on the tissues neighborhood of the joint cause overuse injuries. The studyaimed to investigate the comparative study between active physical training & active resistance training in groin pain among young gymnasts.Material and Method: 30 athletes were recruited for study and randomized into 2 Groups. Activephysical training (Group A), Active resistance training (Group B). A comparative (Cross-sectional)research design was used. Structured exercise protocol with pain reliving modality was given as anintervention (for 1 Hour working day) to assist improvement in strength and pain in the cases of groinpain.Results: The statistical analysis showed significantly improved strength of adductor muscles andreduces groin pain with the structured exercise protocol(Group A)Conclusion: Research concluded that athlete's intervention with structured exercise protocol has asignificantly earlier recovery of strength in hip adductor muscle and reduced pain in the groin inthe active physical training group (Group A) than the active resistance group (Group B), which hadsignificantly late recovery of the adductor muscle.