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terms in the eld and are both rmly ingrained in the popular and surgical literature. Thus, throughout this chapter we will use the terms ath­letic pubalgia and sports hernia interchangeably to refer to pathology related to the abdominal rec­tus or inguinal oor with or without associated adductor pathology.
Pathophysiology
Groin injuries occur due to the high degree of strain placed across the pubis in the region of the insertion of the rectus abdominis, inguinal liga­ment, and adductor longus tendon. Such injuries may be acute from a sudden force applied with one or more muscle groups eccentrically con­tracted or can result from a more gradual process due to an imbalance in forces. Most commonly this results from the force of the powerful thigh muscles (mainly the adductor group) across the pubis which is transmitted to the distal rectus and inguinal oor [8]. The three major catego­ries of anatomical ndings in these athletes are (1) rectus tendon injury [8, 9], (2) poste­rior abdominal wall/inguinal oor defect [10], and (3) adductor- related groin injury. Rectus abdominis insertion injuries typically occur at the attachment of the rectus aponeurosis to the pubis (Fig.17.1). Similarly, there can be a tear or tendinopathy in the adductor longus leading to pain at the tendinous insertion into the pubis with any adduction- related movements. The second type of injury, related to weakness of the posterior abdominal wall or inguinal disruption, (Fig.17.2) may be a more gradual result from an imbalance in forces across the pubis, particu­larly if the adductors are much stronger than the rectus and associated lower abdominal muscles. A common associated nding in this setting is an attenuated external oblique aponeurosis, although it is unclear to what extent this con­tributes to symptoms (Fig.17.3). It is also not uncommon for these different injuries to coexist in one athlete.
Pathology of the inguinal or genital nerves has been postulated to contribute to athletic groin pain in some cases, but this is rarely the
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Fig. 17.1 Pelvic MRI that shows a rectus abdominal tear.
(a) Normal side. (b) Rectus aponeurosis tear at pubis (arrow). P pubis, R rectus
sole source of pain [11]. However, this theory is countered by the fact that most authorities have good outcomes, regardless of approach, without resecting either the ilioinguinal or genital nerves. The role of neurectomy in the treatment of ath­letic groin injuries is, therefore, controversial. It should also be stated that athletic pubalgia is not just one isolated condition but rather comprises a spectrum of pathology that mandates an indi­vidualized approach to the evaluation and assess­ment of a given athlete.
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Table 17.1 Differential diagnosis for groin pain
General
Abdominal muscle strain/tear of rectus abdominis or obliques Osteitis pubis Pubic rami stress fracture Adductor strain Hip exor strain Inguinal hernia Nerve entrapment
Hip-related
Labral tear Femoroacetabular impingement Osteoarthritis Femoral neck stress fracture Avascular necrosis
In women
Endometriosis Ovarian pathology Other gynecologic abnormalities
In men
Prostatitis
Fig. 17.2 Operative photo of a weakened posterior ingui-
nal oor. (a) The dotted circle outlines the area of weak­ness in the inguinal oor. Also seen is the healthy transversalis fascia (TF) medially and the inguinal liga­ment laterally (arrows). (b) Magnied view of the bulging posterior oor
groin injuries. Among the causes of groin pain are abdominal muscle strains, osteitis pubis, pubic rami stress fractures, adductor strain, hip exor strains, inguinal hernias, and nerve entrap­ment (Table
17.1). Hip-related etiologies of
groin pain include labral tears, femoroacetabular impingement, osteoarthritis, femoral neck stress fractures, and avascular necrosis. In women, gynecologic etiologies of groin pain, such as endometriosis and ovarian pathology, may enter into the differential diagnosis as does prostatitis in men. In 1 recent systematic literature review of 73 articles on the treatment of athletic groin injuries, the 5 most common entities that required surgical intervention were femoroacetabular impingement (32%), athletic pubalgia (24%), adductor-related pathology (12%), inguinal-
related pathology
(10%), and labral pathology (5%) [12].
Fig. 17.3 Operative view of a markedly attenuated exter-
nal oblique aponeurosis (arrows)
Some of these problems may coexist in the same athlete. For example, Hammoud et al. noted signicant overlap in symptoms between athletes with athletic pubalgia, as dened by
Dierential Diagnosis
lower abdominal or adductor pain, and femo­roacetabular impingement (FAI) [13]. In their
Groin anatomy is complex, and there are a num­ber of other conditions that need to be consid­ered when evaluating a patient for sports-related
series, 32% of patients had persistent symptoms after surgery for athletic pubalgia which did not resolve until arthroscopic management of FAI
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was undertaken. These ndings highlight the dif­culty of making the correct diagnosis and the importance of a thorough history and physical exam as well as multidisciplinary evaluation.
A diagnosis of inguinal disruption or inguinal­related groin injury should be suspected when an athlete presents with exertional pain in the lower abdomen or groin, in the absence of an inguinal hernia, which does not improve with non- operative treatments. Adductor injuries typi­cally present with pain in the adductor longus tendon region which is exacerbated with resisted adduction.
Clinical Evaluation
History
While groin injuries are common, their evaluation is nuanced and requires a thorough history and physical exam. Initial evaluation is often multi­disciplinary, involving orthopedic surgeons or sports medicine physicians, athletic trainers, and physical therapists with referral to a general sur­geon after failure of conservative management.
During the history, one should ask about the onset and duration of symptoms as well as the pre­cise location and quality of pain. An effort should be made to determine if the symptoms originate from the inguinal region, abdominal muscles, the hip, adductors, or a combination thereof. A history of a bulge in the groin that would suggest a true inguinal hernia is rarely present. Typically, the pain from a groin injury does not occur at rest or sitting but may be aggravated with activities such as running, skating, cutting, coughing, sneezing, and getting in and out of bed. Since one of the risk factors for a groin injury is previous groin injury [7], this should be inquired about as well.
With the patient standing, it is important to evalu­ate for inguinal hernias or testicular pathology which could be contributing to pain. The exter­nal inguinal ring should be examined for laxity or tenderness. With the patient supine, one should begin by palpation over the pubic symphysis to elicit tenderness there which could suggest oste­itis pubis. Both inguinal oors should be palpated to assess for weakness or asymmetry (Fig.17.4a). Pelvic stability should be assessed by pressing down on the iliac wings bilaterally. Resisted sit­ups and trunk rotation may reveal pain related to the rectus abdominis insertion or the oblique muscles. A thorough hip exam is recommended to rule out hip pathology and should include ex­ion/adduction/internal rotation (FADIR) as well as exion/abduction/external rotation (FABER) which may indicate a labral inury [12]. The thigh exam should include testing of strength and pain with straight leg raising, resisted hip exion, and passive and resisted adduction and abduction. Any other sites of pain should be examined as well. Finally, the adductor insertion site should be palpated to identify tightness or tenderness.
Physical Exam
A careful physical exam is essential to reach the correct diagnosis. A complete exam will include both standing and supine assessment of the patient.
Fig. 17.4 Inguinal oor exam with palpation of inguinal
oors and distal rectus insertion at rest and during a sit-up
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Imaging
There is no clear consensus on the use of imag­ing to evaluate groin injuries. Plain x-rays [4], ultrasound [14], and MRI [4, 6] have been used and advocated by different groups. Plain x-rays are effective for ruling out avulsion of bony fragments but are rarely informative in this population of athletes. Dynamic ultra­sound can be helpful in identifying inguinal hernias or posterior weakness in the inguinal oor but does not typically identify rectus injuries or adductor pathology. Ultrasound is also operator dependent and does not allow assessment of pubis-, adductor-, or hip-related pathology. In the authors’ experience, a pelvic MRI is the most useful imaging modality for the evaluation of acute and chronic athletic groin injuries. Findings that may be seen on MRI include bone marrow edema (Fig.17.5), stress fractures, rectus or adductor aponeuro­sis tears (Fig.17.6), and hip pathology. MRI, combined with a careful history and physi­cal exam, should allow a precise diagnosis of sports-related groin injury in the vast majority of cases.
Fig. 17.5 Pelvis MRI that shows right-sided pubis
edema (short arrows) and a secondary cleft (longer arrow). R rectus, P pubis. The secondary cleft is a cur-
vilinear uid cleft extending from the inferior aspect of the pubis
Surgical Treatment
The majority of sports-related groin inju­ries resolve with rest, ice, nonsteroidal anti­inammatory drugs, and physical therapy. Deep tissue massage, or active tissue release, may also be effective in the appropriate setting. Injections with local anesthetic and steroids may be both diagnostic and therapeutic in the treatment algo­rithm if the pain is well-localized on the abdomi­nal wall. Some centers have used platelet-rich plasma (PRP) injections at the site of injury, but reports have been limited to isolated case reports [1517] and use of PRP for treatment of other sports-related injuries [18]. Anecdotally, PRP has been associated with heterotopic calcication and should be avoided in the area of the adductor tendon or insertion.
Abdominal Wall Repair
Surgery is indicated in athletes who fail 2–3months of conservative management and who have the appropriate clinical features and sup­portive imaging ndings. In some cases, earlier intervention may be warranted in high-level ath­letes who have an acute rectus insertional injury that is seen on MRI. There have been two ran­domized clinical trials that compared operative treatment to non-operative treatment for sports­hernia-type groin pain [1920]. In both series, athletes who underwent surgical management had signicantly reduced pain at 3–6months and returned to sports sooner than those who received non-operative management. In addition, there was signicant crossover from the non­arms to the operative arm in each study (51% [19] and 23% [20]) due to persistent pain. In both studies, participants who crossed over experi­enced signicant improvement in their pain after surgery. These trials support the use of surgical intervention to treat athletes who have failed con­servative management and have the appropriate exam and imaging ndings.
The rst key to choosing the proper surgical
intervention is accurate diagnosis of the problem.
operative
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Fig. 17.6 Pelvic MRI that shows an adductor tear (arrows). Left panel, coronal view; right panel, axial image
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A variety of operative approaches have been uti­lized by various groups to treat the abdominal/ inguinal oor pathology of athletic pubalgia. Broadly, these consist of (1) open primary suture repairs, (2) open tension-free mesh repairs, and (3) laparoscopic mesh repairs. Regardless of the approach, the goal of surgery is to provide support and stability to the posterior inguinal oor and rectus insertion at the pubis, thereby strengthening the latter.
Primary Repairs
Two principal types of primary suture repairs have been described. Meyers, who has the world’s largest experience with surgical treatment of ath­letic pubalgia injuries, sutures the inferolateral edge of the rectus fascia to the pubis and adjacent anterior ligaments [21]. This approach differs from a standard Bassini inguinal hernia repair in that the sutures are oriented in a near vertical line and the internal ring is not tightened since it is usually normal caliber. Muschawek and col­leagues carry out a “minimal” repair technique in which only the weakened posterior inguinal oor is opened [22] The repair then consists of running two imbricating monolament sutures up and down the inguinal oor between the transversa­lis/internal oblique layers and the iliopubic tract and inguinal ligament. This repair is analogous somewhat to a Shouldice repair except only the weakened section of the oor is repaired with the goal to lateralize the rectus. In selected cases, a genital neurectomy is also performed.
Tension-Free Mesh Repairs
The rationale for a tension-free mesh repair is that these repairs have largely replaced primary suture repairs over the last 20years, and, for ath­letes who exert tremendous forces around the pubic region, this should result in a durable long­term repair. For open mesh repairs, the mesh is placed similar to a Lichtenstein repair with two exceptions: (1) the mesh is anchored medially to the rectus sheath and (Fig.17.7), when possible, (2) the internal oblique is brought over the mesh and sutured to the inguinal ligament to insinuate native tissue between the mesh and the spermatic cord (Fig.17.7c). Splitting the mesh and bringing
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Fig. 17.7 Open repair of inguinal oor. (a) Sutures
anchored to healthy transversalis fascia and rectus sheath. (b) Completed tension-free mesh repair of oor. SC=sper­matic cord. (c) Internal oblique (IO) covering the mesh oor repair by suturing it to the inguinal ligament
the two tails around the spermatic cord is done not because the internal ring is abnormal but so that the mesh lies at and evenly along the oor. An additional advantage of the open approach is that it allows repair of the external oblique which is often markedly attenuated in these athletes.
Some groups [20, 23] have advocated a lapa­roscopic approach to this problem. Paajanen etal. describe a total extraperitoneal (TEP) approach with dissection of the preperitoneal plane in the
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same fashion as one would do for an inguinal hernia repair [20]. The preperitoneal space is ini­tially developed with a balloon dilator and then is dissected bluntly from the pubic symphysis to the inferior epigastric vessels bilaterally as well as caudally behind the pubic symphysis. A light­weight polypropylene mesh is xed to the rec­tus abdominis, conjoined tendon, and Cooper’s ligament (Fig. 17.8). This procedure may also be carried out using a transabdominal preperi­toneal (TAPP) approach. Some groups advo­cate bilateral oor repair laparoscopically even when patients have unilateral injuries or symp­toms, although repair of an asymptomatic groin is controversial. Lloyd etal. release the inguinal ligament by detaching the medial insertion of the inguinal ligament at the pubis based on the con­cept that the pain is primarily related to tension at the inguinal ligament [23]. This approach is
followed by placement of a large polypropylene mesh in the preperitoneal plane to buttress the entire inguinal oor on the side of the injury.
The senior author’s practice is to perform an open tension-free mesh repair in most cases for the reasons given above. For young athletes who are still in their growth phase or women athletes, a primary suture repair is preferred analogous to that described above in which the lateral rectus is sutured to the pubis and inguinal ligament with interrupted nonabsorbable sutures [21]. In a series of 257 cases treated at our institution over the past 12years, 83% underwent open mesh repair, 5% were treated with primary tissue repairs, and 13% underwent laparoscopic TEP repair with an overall success rate of return to sports of 90%. The laparoscopic approach was used primarily in athletes who had prior open inguinal surgery and demonstrable rectus aponeurosis tears on imaging.
No comparative trials have been done to assess outcomes of the different surgical approaches for the treatment of sports-hernia-related ingui­nal pain, although a trial is currently underway in Finland to compare laparoscopic vs. open minimal suture repair in athletes who have failed conservative management (NCT01876342). Reported series have also not shown differ­ences in outcomes between open or laparoscopic approaches [24], but this issue remains contro­versial. Athletes are in most cases able to return to competitive sports within 5–8weeks of sur­gery [4, 13, 23].
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Fig. 17.8 Laparoscopic view of right inguinal oor. (a)
The dotted circle shows a defect in the medial posterior inguinal oor similar to that on the anterior view seen in Fig.17.7. (P=pubis, R=rectus, IE=inferior epigastrics). (b) Mesh repair of inguinal oor, laparoscopic approach
Adductor Tenotomy
If the symptoms, exam, and imaging ndings are primarily related to adductor tendon pathology, an adductor tenotomy can be performed, either as an isolated procedure or in conjunction with inguinal oor repair. In these cases, patients have pain inferior to the inguinal ligament near the attachment of the adductor longus tendon to the pubis and have discomfort with resisted adduc­tion on that side. MRI typically shows adductor tendon thickening, chronic tendinopathy, or a tear at the insertion site. A small incision is made 2–3cm below the adductor insertion on the pubis.
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Several incisions are made into the tendon sheath to stimulate neovascularity and to release tension in the adductor compartment. Occasionally, cal­cications in the tendon are found and should be debrided (Fig.17.9). Percutaneous approaches to adductor tenotomy have also been described [25].
athletes were able to return to sports at a mean of 13 weeks after repair (range 10–21 weeks). Seven of these athletes also underwent simulta­neous mesh repair of an injury on the abdominal side. No recurrences were observed over 1year of follow- up [4].
Return to sports with these approaches has been reported at 4–14weeks postoperatively [2527].
The role of primary surgical repair vs. con-
Postoperative Care
servative management of adductor tendon tears is unclear. In one study of National Football League players, the mean time to return to play was 6.1±3.1weeks in 12 conservatively treated athletes compared to 12. 0±2.5weeks in 5 surgi­cally managed patients [28]. In a second study of 15 elite athletes, adductor repair was performed between 5 and 34 days from injury using bone anchors to reattach the tendon at the pubis. These
Rehabilitation after surgery for a sports-related groin injury should entail a structured approach with gradually increasing activity levels. Ellsworth etal. have published a detailed, well­dened regimen [29]. Regardless of the type of surgery performed, patients in the senior author’s practice are instructed to resume light activities and stretching from the day of surgery. Within 5 days they should begin a program of structured walking progressing to light running within 2 weeks. Cycling for conditioning and light resistance exercises may begin as soon as is comfortable for the athlete. Light sports-spe­cic activities (e.g., dribbling a soccer ball, light skating, or football drills) may also be resumed within 2–3 weeks according to comfort level with gradual progression to higher-level drills. Functional strengthening and core stabilization exercises should be included in the rehabilitation along with scar mobilization with deep tissue massage. Finally, progression to team practices, scrimmage, and simulated game conditions
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should precede return to play. It is important to note that progression of recovery should be based on function and symptoms and not a rigid time­based approach. Recovery will vary according to the athlete, sports, and extent of injury. Most athletes can return to competitive sports within 5–8 weeks, though longer may be required for more complex injuries and those with adductor involvement.
Summary
Fig. 17.9 (a) Operative view of partial adductor longus
release. (b) Calcied adductor tendon (arrows) that is undergoing debridement
Sports-related groin injuries are common and can be difcult to diagnose and manage. Surgical treatment is indicated for athletes who fail
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conservative therapy and who have the appropri­ate exam and radiographic features. Hernia sur­geons who become involved in the evaluation of these athletes should understand the diverse con­ditions that cause athletic groin pain, be familiar with the special exam and imaging components necessary to make the diagnosis, and have a well­constructed surgical approach to management. A multidisciplinary approach with the sports medi­cine or orthopedist specialist, musculoskeletal radiologist, and athletic trainer/physical therapist with experience in managing these athletes is also essential to successful outcomes.
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