Keywords:
Trauma, Hernia, Athletic injuries, Diagnostic procedure, Ultrasound, MR, Pelvis, Musculoskeletal joint
Authors:
F. Diez Renovales1, J. Cardenal Urdampilleta1, B. I. Ruiz Morin1, G. lecumberri1, J. Carrandi Camiña1, C. Morandeira Arrizabalaga2, S. delgado saiz1; 1Bilbao/ES, 2Getxo/ES
DOI:
10.1594/essr2018/P-0039
Background
Inguinal pain syndrome is understood nowadays as any clinic generally referred as pain,
located in the pubic-inguinal-adductor region,
that interferes with the athletic practice or the daily life of the patient and that requires medical assistance (1) The inguinal pain syndrome is a very controversial entity,
the term itself is descriptive and encompasses multiple entities,
up to 63 entities are classified in 11 categories (2).
The large number of medical-surgical specialties involved in its clinical management (trauma,
surgery,
rehabilitation,
sports medicine) also contributes,
as well as a certain lack of knowledge of the physiopathology.
The nomenclature and lack of consensus of the clinical and imaging evaluation in the groin pain generate confusion in this field.
Athletic pubalgia,
athlete's groin,
athlete's hernia,
pre-hernia complex,
are some of the terms most commonly used,
are descriptive terms and indicate "pain in the groin area" and can not be a diagnosis