title: Epidemiological profile of patients diagnosed with athletic pubalgia.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To evaluate the clinical and epidemiological characteristics of pubalgia in patients from a Sports Medicine Center.
  
  
  METHODS
  Data analysis from medical records of patients with athletic pubalgia attended to from January 2007 to January 2015. The diagnosis was made by an experienced hip surgeon, complemented with pelvic X-ray, abdominal wall ultrasound, and magnetic resonance imaging of the pelvis.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Among 43 patients, 42 were men, with mean age of 33 years. As for sports, 25 (58.1%) athletes were soccer players and 13 (30.2%) were runners; 37.2% were professional athletes. Inguinal hernia was diagnosed in 20.9% of patients, showing the importance of its routine search in these patients. Treatment duration ranged from 1 to 12 months and 95.2% of the patients returned to sport.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  This study presented the epidemiological characteristics of patients diagnosed with athletic pubalgia attended to in a reference medical center and demonstrated the prevalence of this lesion in male patients, soccer players and runners. It also disclosed a high success rate of the nonoperative treatment, and high rate of return to sport after treatment.
authors.affiliation: Universidade Federal de São Paulo, Departamento de Ortopedia e Traumatologia, Centro de Traumatologia do Esporte, São Paulo, SP, Brazil.
authors.forename: Anderson Luiz de
authors.initials: AL
authors.lastname: Oliveira
authors.affiliation: Universidade Federal de São Paulo, Departamento de Ortopedia e Traumatologia, Centro de Traumatologia do Esporte, São Paulo, SP, Brazil.
authors.forename: Carlos Vicente
authors.initials: CV
authors.lastname: Andreoli
authors.affiliation: Universidade Federal de São Paulo, Departamento de Ortopedia e Traumatologia, Centro de Traumatologia do Esporte, São Paulo, SP, Brazil.
authors.forename: Benno
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Ejnisman
authors.affiliation: Universidade Federal de São Paulo, Departamento de Ortopedia e Traumatologia, Centro de Traumatologia do Esporte, São Paulo, SP, Brazil.
authors.forename: Roberto Dantas
authors.initials: RD
authors.lastname: Queiroz
authors.affiliation: Universidade Federal de São Paulo, Departamento de Ortopedia e Traumatologia, Centro de Traumatologia do Esporte, São Paulo, SP, Brazil.
authors.forename: Osvaldo Guilherme Nunes
authors.initials: OG
authors.lastname: Pires
authors.affiliation: Universidade Federal de São Paulo, Departamento de Ortopedia e Traumatologia, Centro de Traumatologia do Esporte, São Paulo, SP, Brazil.
authors.forename: Guilherme Guadagnini
authors.initials: GG
authors.lastname: Falótico
keywords: Athletic injuries; Hernia; Pubic symphysis; Sports