title: Results of surgical treatment of athletes with sportsman's hernia.
abstract: Chronic groin pain in athletes is a difficult diagnostic and therapeutic condition. Between March 2004 and December 2009, 241 male athletes (mean age: 25.8 years, range: 16-41) in whom chronic sportsman's hernia was diagnosed, were surgically treated using a standardised technique. In this retrospective study, charts were analyzed for preoperative duration of symptoms and prior treatment. Perioperative complications were noted. Patients were contacted and were asked to answer a telephone questionnaire: 162 patients agreed to be questioned as part of the current study. A surgical intervention with reinforcement of the posterior inguinal wall and tenotomy of the adductors has lead to satisfactory results in over 90% of athletes with chronic groin pain who failed to improve with conservative treatment.
authors.affiliation: Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Monica Hospital, Stevenslei 20, 2100 Deurne, Belgium. christophe.jans@gmail.com
authors.forename: Christophe
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Jans
authors.forename: Nouredin
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Messaoudi
authors.forename: Steven
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Pauli
authors.forename: Roger P
authors.initials: RP
authors.lastname: Van Riet
authors.forename: Geert
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Declercq
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001265:Athletic Injuries / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery*; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006552:Hernia, Inguinal / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D019637:Orthopedic Procedures / Q000379:methods; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D055815:Young Adult