Everybody's Talking about Groin Pain – Some Hard Facts and Preventive Approaches

Groin pain becomes more and more the focus of attention in the last couple of years in competitive sports [3], especially in sports requiring immediate changes in direction, repetitive kicking and rotational movements [1, 5]. Common sport activities dealing with groin pain are football/soccer, ice hockey, rugby [2], fencing, cross country skiing and hurdling [3]. Provided information concerning percentage of groin pain among sport-induced injuries varies, from 2 to 5% [4] up to 5 to 18% [3] of all athletic injuries, with the adductor muscle tendon region as the most common reported location (> 50%) of groin pain…