Groin Injuries
If you practice sports such as swimming, soccer, ice hockey, and skating, you will probably ask a lot from your hips to perform different movements. Adduction of the hips is common in such cases; it involves moving your leg away from the rest of the body to your sides. When this movement is done forcefully, you can experience groin injuries.
In ice hockey, 10% of the injuries are like this. In soccer, it accounts for 5% of the total injuries a sports physician receives. You can also experience groin injuries in penetrating trauma, car crashes, and high-energy accidents.
Some of the items mentioned above account for groin injuries. However, there are still others, including:
- Hip pointer: This is a sprain of the sartorius muscle. It causes severe hip pain, and it isn’t easy to rehabilitate. Besides pain, you can also experience a tingling sensation on the thigh.
- Meralgia paresthetica: It causes lateral hip pain and is accompanied by a tingling sensation or increased pain sensitivity. The pain is described as burning and accompanied by a sense of heavy weight of the articulation.
- Femoroacetabular impingement: It is also a common cause of hip pain. It happens when you sit for too long, it can be experienced when you get in or out of your car or perform pivoting movements in sports. Femoroacetabular impingement causes acute pain, but in some patients, the symptoms can be insidious and difficult to locate. The cause is apparently due to an incorrect orientation of the femoral head, but it can also be triggered by bony deformities. When not treated, femoroacetabular impingement can cause osteoarthritis of the hip.
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