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Groin Pain Etiology: Athletic Pubalgia Evaluation and Management

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Athletic pubalgia (sports hernia) is a fashionable moniker used by both patients and physicians to describe what is a poorly understood and often erratically treated patient condition. Athletic pubalgia can more clearly be defined as pain in the groin region brought on by aggressive physical activity and relieved by activity cessation. Rather than being a single-entity disease with a root cause and simple treatment plan, sports hernia is a cluster of different diseases that have both overlapping symptoms and common physical triggers. This chapter aims to describe the individual disease entities and describe the often-subtle physical signs and symptoms that are commonly lumped together as sports hernia.

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  1. Department of Surgery, University of Tennessee Graduate School of Medicine, 1930 Alcoa Highway, Knoxville, TN, 37920, USA

    Gregory J. Mancini M.D., F.A.C.S.

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  1. Mount Sinai School of Medicine, Laparoscopic Surgical Center of New York, New York, New York, USA

    Brian P. Jacob

  2. Division of General Surgery, Lichtenstein Amid Hernia Clinic at UCLA, Santa Monica, California, USA

    David C. Chen

  3. FSU College of Medicine, Advanced Hernia Solutions, Daytona Beach, Florida, USA

    Bruce Ramshaw

  4. Beverly Hills Hernia Center, Beverly Hills, California, USA

    Shirin Towfigh

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Mancini, G.J. (2016). Groin Pain Etiology: Athletic Pubalgia Evaluation and Management. In: Jacob, B., Chen, D., Ramshaw, B., Towfigh, S. (eds) The SAGES Manual of Groin Pain. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-21587-7_7

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