Joint Specific Return to Play Recommendations: “Return to Play in Non-operative Hip/Groin Pain”

Groin pain represents a frequent cause of disability among footballers. Groin pain in footballers is most commonly due to overuse injury as opposed to traumatic injury. Athletic groin pain presents a diagnostic and therapeutic challenge for the sports medicine physician. The complex anatomy of the hip and groin region gives rise to an extensive list of possible pathologies that all may present very similarly. Adductor pathology represents the …