title: Adductor tendinitis and musculus rectus abdominis tendopathy.
abstract: Groin injuries are becoming more common today in soccer. Conservative treatment consisting of rest, physiotherapy, and medication yields favorable results in only 38% of the long-standing lesions. Operative treatment is indicated in selected cases. Better knowledge of the underlying pathology and a more accurate initial conservative treatment directed to the ethiopathogenesis could solve many of the problems. However, in our experience a simple subcutaneous adductor tenotomy and/or a rectus abdominis tenotomy in combination with a fasciaplasty was done successfully in 75 of 81 patients. There was no loss of power in this group of patients as measured and compared with a control group.
mesh_terms: D000009:Abdominal Muscles; D000328:Adult; D001265:Athletic Injuries / Q000601:surgery / Q000628:therapy; D005260:Female; D006119:Groin; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012916:Soccer; D052256:Tendinopathy / Q000209:etiology / Q000601:surgery / Q000628:therapy*