Groin Injury
I am a professional soccer player and I’ve had a bad groin injury for the past 4 months.
The condition came on over time and got to a point where it was too painfull to continue playing. The injury caused me to stop playing in August.
The pain is located deep on the inside of my groin, just to the right of my pubis. Pain is caused when I lift my knee up to my chest agianst resistance and also when my knee is flexed, moving it inward against resistance. I sometimes get a shape pain deep between my legs when I sneeze.
Within a few hours of activity I can’t move without causing pain.
I was diagnosed with pubis symphysis back in August. I rested for a complete 4 months and then gradually started to exercise again. Within an hour of exercise my groin was as bad as ever, even with 4 months rest. I’ve had a MRI but it showed “nothing significant”.
Can anyone help me get over this injury so I can play again?????
5 comments
BC
re your groin pain – an MRI confirmed a hip labrum tear for which I had an arthroscopy. It got worse and a second arthroscopy disclosed another tear near the groin area that didn’t show up on the MRI. I’ve just found out from another MRI I also have an injury to ischial tuberosity area that causes pain in the groin area affecting both adductor and hamstring tendons so don’t discount the idea it might be a couple of differnt injuries. good luck!
hawkfan
I had the same symptoms recently, it got to a point where after training for AFL once i’d cooled down i literally couldn’t move when i tried to stretch it out I collapsed from the pain, it was ridiculously sharp, the worst i’ve ever felt! I couldn’t lift my knee against resistance either and i had been having aches like yourself but to the left side. I was worried that it might be the dreaded Osteitis Pubis. What it turned out to be was a groin strain but it had resulted from a strain to my hip flexor. after a lot of stretching each day and massage from my physio at least once to twice a week i was back on the track just last saturday, I know the feeling of really wanting to train and play and not being able to. Are you by chance left footed?
richb1971
A hip arthroscopy showed my similar sounding symptoms were due to a torn cartilage in my hip-giving pain in my groin. Repaired recently. Pain has gone totally.
MRIx2,X-ray,Herniagram showed nothing prior to arthroscopy….. dont believe ’em mate!
jcasady
Find a physiotherapist who does strain/counterstrain technique. They will likely be able to find a “hot” point in the tendon where it attaches to the bone and “turn it off.”
soccrstud9
i have had some of the same sort of symptoms for the past 2 months, and go in for an mri tomorow. do you happen to have any pain where your hamstring connects to your buttocks, on the inner part of your leg?? i hurt my leg playing soccer too, maybe they are connected. my doctor prescribed physical therapy, maybe you should try that.