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Rehabilitation from Hip and Groin Surgery

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The Young Adult Hip in Sport

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Assessment of groin pain in the young adult population is complex and requires a systematic and integrated approach to create a marriage between the history, the investigations used and the physical examination. Through this process it is possible to ascertain the relationships between the primary and secondary conditions or clinical entities, and accurately identify the source of pain verses the source of dysfunction.

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Moore, J. (2014). Rehabilitation from Hip and Groin Surgery. In: Haddad, F. (eds) The Young Adult Hip in Sport. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-5412-9_25

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