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At least three of the five clinical findings should be present to make a diagnosis of sportsman’s hernia, i. Our patients started their exercises in week 4 after surgery and resumed their normal sports activities at the end of weeks 6–8. Treatment of the Sportsman’s groin: British Hernia Society’s 2014 position statement based on the Manchester Consensus Conference.

Preperitoneal site dissection could not be performed in 4 patients due to a Mc Burney incision scar and TAPP was chosen.Treatment of athletes with symptomatic intra-articular hip pathology and athletic pubalgia/sports hernia: a case series. Accordingly, they listed the MRI findings seen with sportsman’s hernia as observation of rectus abdominis and adductor aponeurosis tears, identification of tenoperiostal dehiscence, secondary cleft finding (marker for adductor damage), rectus abdominis edema and atrophy at the pubic ligament-tendon adhesion site as well as dehiscence of adductor tendons. Occasionally, bone scans or other tests are recommended to rule out other possible causes of the pain. Pain in the lower and lateral parts of the inguinal ligament may be indicative of hip pathology or adductor longus damage while pain above the inguinal ligament may indicate sportsman’s hernia-related pain. It is generally subtle at the beginning; however, it may start in the form of a sudden pain and tear in some cases.

Furthermore, they may also indicate the symmetric bone resorption in osteitis pubis, sclerosis and symphysis widening ( 26). Studies on sportsman’s hernia, which is a challenging situation in both diagnosis and treatment, are ongoing in many centers. In spite of the symptoms and signs being typical, the first treatment plan should be conservative treatment and surgery should be performed when conservative treatment is not successful.If there is abnormal flow of contrast medium outside the contours of peritoneum, the test result is considered positive. Many sportsmen, amateur or professional, are affected by sportsman’s groin more often as compared to those who do not do sports ( 5). Although the TAPP method yields similar results, we conclude that TEP is more advantageous than TAPP since it causes less pain and has lower risk for causing damage to intraabdominal organs. Prior to the season, the degree of the loading to be performed is identified using abdomen-hip stability and flexibility tests.

Sportsman’s hernia may also accompany other pathologies that lead to abdominal pain such as adductor tendinitis, osteitis pubis and pubic symphysitis ( 6, 18). If, however, the pain comes back when you resume sports activities, you may need to consider surgery to repair the torn tissues. Muschaweck and Berger ( 47, 48) treated 129 patients using the minimal repair technique between 2008 and 2009 and reported that 78. Seventeen patients responded to conservative treatment and surgical treatment was not applied in these patients.

Adductor tendonitis may be seen in patients with disturbed pelvic stability along with weak inguinal wall ( 36).

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