Anyone ever had a "Sports Hernia" aka: "Sportsman's hernia", "Gilmore's groin", or &quot

I had a sports hernia mesh operation after sprinting and feeling a sharp popping in my groin on both sides as my left and the right foot hut the ground right by/in my scrote .after 2 yrs of all the troubles that people discribe hear I was diagnosed with inguinal disruption. When I was operated on

The butcher found I had a large tear in my internal eternal obliqe which he meshed and stapled me up . I woke up from the Op feeling so tight around the abdominal area i could hardly breathe.. few weeks after I was still feeling to tight and feeling it pulling and stuff with no improvement in my pain around the adductor and pubic bone. when i sneezed for the first time id say i felt this left side patch rip out again .anyway i still felt like both sides of my ball bag was still being strected wide like Simon Marsh discribes in his YouTube video

in fact I saw Simon for a second opinion shortly after the Op in 09 but it was to soon to say and was basically waste of my time and his ..but his 2011 video discribe how he is taking botched mess jobs out at least once a month and doing the full reconstruction.. Which I only saw last week.. this tightness I felt below the 2 massive scars was unreal.. It was affecting my chopper when it was hard and while having intercourse for probly the second time after the op I felt a tear down the side of it and acrosd the top which caused some kind of bleed which coverd my intire groin and perineum. Having had the Op private the NHS didn't want to know really.and just left me in a bed for day's promising me an ultra sound or mri after a week with no investigation what so ever I got up and left the hospital.from that day till this I feel so messed up down there and still fighting to try and get myself up and running but I keep getting this break down of Gilmore groin symptoms and now my left hip joint don't move propa.. has anyone else experienced such situations?

I had a sports hernia mesh operation after sprinting and feeling a sharp popping in my groin on both sides as my left and the right foot hut the ground right by/in my scrote .after 2 yrs of all the troubles that people discribe hear I was diagnosed with inguinal disruption. When I was operated on

The butcher found I had a large tear in my internal eternal obliqe which he meshed and stapled me up . I woke up from the Op feeling so tight around the abdominal area i could hardly breathe.. few weeks after I was still feeling to tight and feeling it pulling and stuff with no improvement in my pain around the adductor and pubic bone. when i sneezed for the first time id say i felt this left side patch rip out again .anyway i still felt like both sides of my ball bag was still being strected wide like Simon Marsh discribes in his YouTube video

in fact I saw Simon for a second opinion shortly after the Op in 09 but it was to soon to say and was basically waste of my time and his ..but his 2011 video discribe how he is taking botched mess jobs out at least once a month and doing the full reconstruction.. Which I only saw last week.. this tightness I felt below the 2 massive scars was unreal.. It was affecting my chopper when it was hard and while having intercourse for probly the second time after the op I felt a tear down the side of it and acrosd the top which caused some kind of bleed which coverd my intire groin and perineum. Having had the Op private the NHS didn't want to know really.and just left me in a bed for day's promising me an ultra sound or mri after a week with no investigation what so ever I got up and left the hospital.from that day till this I feel so messed up down there and still fighting to try and get myself up and running but I keep getting this break down of Gilmore groin symptoms and now my left hip joint don't move propa.. has anyone else experienced such situations?

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Played football in college had pain there that wouldn’t go away got a shot in my pubis joint that got me through the season. Pain came back after season. Then I proceeded to get surgery from Dr. Meyers in PA. It wasn’t easy getting back back but I did. Lost my starting job as a linebacker my junior year because I was just having trouble getting back to the player I was after having this surgery. But I got through that rough year then got my spot back my senior year. 4 years later when I was golfing when it was freezing out my first swing with the driver on the first hole I felt something but it was very subtle. Long story short that ended up getting worse and worse and now I have been completeley terrible and going through a rough time with not being able to do anything workout wise I enjoy or even a lot of my favorite hobby’s. Went back to Meyers he said he didn’t see anything on the MRI where he did surgery before but that’s exactly where it hurts. Then after doing all these test and what not I met back with him and he proceeded to say I have a tear in my hip now and they want to do surgery on both. What should I do? If any ideas lemme know? How cut happy he is I’m surprised he didn’t even wanna look cause I know something is right there

I am a collegiate distance runner. I have been dealing with groin and lower ab pain since March of 2015. I was warned by multiple doctors to not see Meyers as they had sent patients to him in the past few years who have had some fairly bad experiences with Meyers. However, from the research I had done, it seemed like Meyers was one of the few doctors who had a good understanding of core muscle injuries, and I was tired of dealing with doctors who pretended they knew what they were talking about. So I decided to see Meyers in December of 2016. I had a bilateral pelvic floor repair and a left adductor repair in February of 2017. Wasn't an easy return to running. In the summer of 2017, I had pain on my right side--the side that wasn't painful before the surgery. Went back to Meyers in July, and had another surgery to remove what he thought was a stitch rubbing up against a nerve. Eventually, I was able to train that summer and return to compete in the fall of 2017. After the cross country season had ended, pain in my groin on my left side started slowly coming back. Now the pain has returned full force–pretty much the same level that it has been at its worst before the surgery. Don't trust Meyers at this point. He is losing his touch. When you say that he thinks you have a tear in your hip, are you referring to a labral tear? If so, there are plenty of doctors who are extremely qualified to repair labral tears. I wouldn't trust Meyers with another surgery. Good luck.

John,i am also suffering from sports hernia.You told that you suffered from knee pain for Sports hernia.I also have knee pain that means during sitting or any kind of knee flexion my patello femoral pressure increase.So i am always comfortable in knee extended condition.Please tell me after your sports hernia surgery has your knee pain gone away?

I desperately need your answer.My doctors dont believe in knee pain for sports hernia.My knee,hip MRI are normal other that sports hernia.Please help me giving your valuable answer.My e- mail is :

dr.mehedi.hossain.bd@gmail.com.Than

ks in advance.

Regards,

Mehedi

I’m going to respond to several sports hernia threads at once. Gotta spread the word about what worked!

I’ve had a sports hernia since February of 2017. By May 17 I had to see a PT for it, but her exercises did nothing. My next PT, in June, also prescribed exercises that did nothing. The athletic trainer I saw in August prescribed a bunch of exercises that did nothing. I then saw a 3rd PT in the fall, who prescribed exercises that did nothing. She eventually referred me to a 4th PT, who prescribed exercises that did nothing. Last November I started seeing a trainer that gave me much more intense and challenging exercises for my glute max, glute med, and oblique (side) abdominal muscles. I wasn’t improving much, but I wasn’t getting worse. Then the guy’s gym closed, so I had nobody to help me. This spring I started with another trainer, who also gave me much more intense and challenging exercises for my glute max, glute med, and side abdominals. After about 4 weeks/workouts with her I improved dramatically. I have a few more workouts but my sports hernia is now a non-factor in my running and pain.

I think the key was that I need a more challenging workout. The PTs and first trainer gave exercises that barely had me flexing the weak muscles. The last 2 trainers were kicking my a$s. Doing a side plank is easy, but doing a side plank on 2 of those BOSU yoga balls is much harder, and forces the obliques to work much more. That’s what I needed.

I think that a sports hernia is the adductors and abs trying to pull the body forward, when the glutes are too weak to help PUSH it forward. Obliques come into play in making sure your pelvis is in the right position as you move your trailing leg forward. I think that I have a sort of shuffling look to my stride indicates the legs are not sufficiently lifted by my core. A person who has high knee lift will probably not get a sports hernia.

I’ve read these sports hernia threads for over a year, and have been saddened by the outcomes and lack of knowledge of this injury. I hope this helps. Best of luck to all!

And BTW, the last 2 trainers I was visiting at their gym weekly, not taking a bunch of stuff written on paper and doing them at home. The eye on your technique is important.

I've suffered with a sports hernia for almost two years now but I recently came across this long article on how to recover without surgery:

https://physiqz.com/sports-hernia-recovery-time-with-and-without-surgery/

Anyone tried it??

At the moment I'm struggling at the resting phase. Can't seem to get rid of the mild pain I feel... but not sure whether I should soldier on.

I was diagnosed with an inguinal hernia and scheduled for surgery. Another doctor requested a CT Scan and that scan revealed it was not a hernia, but a strained inguinal ligament which mimics a hernia exactly.

Bulgarian Squat. Also called Bulgarian split-leg squat.

It can be an automatic answer for a lot of you. Do it with a bar on your shoulders, do it multiple times a week, do a series one day where you do a lower weight with a higher set/rep sequence, go a little heavier and lower rep another day. Alternate these. Do heavier weights, push it a bit. Keep raising the weight as you improve.

Do that for a few weeks, and you're likely to immediately notice a difference.

Except for the REALLY wrecked folks with way-too-far-gone hips, lower abdomen issues that require specific protocols all their own, and the like, the Bulgarian squat is likely your godsend. Do it. Do it right (check out youtube for examples). Use a mirror. Be stable. But, just do it.

Most people's butts don't work enough these days; even top athletes. That's a key component of the symptoms for most of you. Get your butts working again, and presto. Maybe you'll need hip replacements when you're 70. Maybe not. Who knows. Maybe you need hip impingement surgery now. You'll know if you can't squat. But, dont cut till ypu Bulgarian squat. Your hips are likely also involved...but...want the symptoms to essentially disappear? Want to run and jump around again?

Bulgarian squat.

P.s. Once you stop Bsquatting...it will likely come back. This is a chronic thing, but it often disappears once you Bulgarian squat the ish out of yourself. Stop? It's likely to come back. Bsquat it again, it disappears again. Just trust me and do it.

Interesting, I'll give this a go.

Has anyone successfully returned to 100% without surgery? With surgery?

The stories and outcomes are bit saddening...

ConstantStateofFlex wrote:

Has anyone successfully returned to 100% without surgery? With surgery?

The stories and outcomes are bit saddening...

I had surgery in 2005 and made a full recovery, this after having fought the injury for 7 years, never knew what it was until this thread got started in 2004, found a surgeon in Minneapolis who did the surgery and have never had any issues even 13 years later.

ConstantStateofFlex wrote:

Has anyone successfully returned to 100% without surgery? With surgery?

The stories and outcomes are bit saddening...

My post is a few posts up. I beat it.

There are a couple problems with the discussion of this injury. 1 is that sports hernia is nothing like an inguinal hernia. My sports hernia was diffuse. i.e., in my adductors, lower abs, and sartorius. 2 is that lots of high speed athletes like hockey players are probably straining muscles in ways that are different from distance runners. They might also be getting a true inguinal hernia.

Find a trainer who will give you a hard work in your glutes and abs. That Bulgarian squat looks good, but I don't recall doing it. Just keep your foot farther out to focus the work on the glutes, not the quads.

I'm the guy who posted about the Bulgarian Split Squat.

I technically had four surgeries (one was a bi-lateral surgery that was kind of done separately) for the so called "sports hernia" (best to call it Athletic Pubalgia, in my opinion). I could actually even argue I had six surgeries for the problem if you count the bi-lateral hip surgeries I had, too. The surgeries occurred over a time period of the summer of 2007 to the winter of 2009. The surgeries themselves never solved, and I'd argue even ADDRESSED, the groin pain I was having.

At some point during the spring or summer of 2010, a combination of successful basketball playing and an introduction of the Bulgarian Split Squat to my training regiment led me to attempt to pursue sprinting again. Previous to that point, pretty much any time I would try to sprint with any real effort, even after the hip surgeries, my groin would either snag or flat out rip. But after doing some bulgarian squats for a while, I was abke to fiddle around with sprint workouts again.

In the years since 2010, I have had only very small instances of "reoccurrance", and those always seem to revolve around the fact that I hadn't been doing my Bulgarian Squats at all, or as much. I've been fairly successful at getting back into sprinting again, albeit as a shell of what I was. But that probably has more to do with age, luck, talent and head issues, and other injuries, than the "sports hernia" thing.

You can get around Athletic Pubalgia. It doesn't REMOTELY have to end a career. Maybe your hip will end your career, or maybe a huge assortment of kinetic chain issues can end your career, but you can get the groin pain to give way and get back to training and competing. I personally think it can be as easy as a bulgarian squat, but certainly it's a very individualized and case-by-case thing.

I personally, based on experience and my own research, don't think surgery has the slightest bit to do with "sports hernia" recovery, except for extreme cases (specifically including major hip anomalies). I went to GERMANY for a surgery, and my groin pain came back three months later aftwr running just one 100m dash prelim (I wasn't even running all out).

Alternatively, I VERY recently pulled my groin for the first time in YEARS two months ago, and in reaction I then reinstated the Bulgarian Split Squat more clearly back into my training regiment. Thusly, in the past three weeks since getting back into my sprint workouts, I'm running as fast as I have in anywhere from 4 to 12 years with NO semblance of groin issues (hammy is a different story). So. It's a very individualistic example, but.... Bulgarian Squat for the win. And it is possible to come back from. You might be predisposed to a groin problem forever once youve developed it, but if you just do some maintenance, it can essentially be put in the rear view mirror, in my opinion.

And DON'T CUT. At LEAST until you've fully covered the rehab/kinetic chain/glute/psoas/hip flexion end of the issue, and/or have a HUGE flaring-up hip MRI that EVERYONE agrees diagnostically to (preferably in this case you've got legit hip pain, too). Do yourself a favor in that regard.

so about two years ago i was deadlifting. during my set i reached my max and decided to not put on my weight belt. when i lifted up the weight and locked out something felt wrong so i dropped the weight and walked out. i dint feel any pain the rest of the night but when i woke up the next morning my stomach was really bloated and puffed out. i let it go for two weeks before going to the er. the doctors took and xray ultrasound and cat scan but nothing was found. i still to this day have pain that ranges from my top left abdomen about an inch undermeath my last rib all the down to my groin. any idea on what this could be? i mostly feel the pain in my groin. ive been checked multiple times for a hernia even by a general surgeon and said i had no signs of a hernia.

so about two years ago i was deadlifting. during my set i reached my max and decided to not put on my weight belt. when i lifted up the weight and locked out something felt wrong so i dropped the weight and walked out. i dint feel any pain the rest of the night but when i woke up the next morning my stomach was really bloated and puffed out. i let it go for two weeks before going to the er. the doctors took and xray ultrasound and cat scan but nothing was found. i still to this day have pain that ranges from my top left abdomen about an inch undermeath my last rib all the down to my groin. any idea on what this could be? i mostly feel the pain in my groin. ive been checked multiple times for a hernia even by a general surgeon and said i had no signs of a hernia.

I put together a workout video showing several exercises I've learned from physical therapy which have helped improved my sports hernia issue. Unfortunately, while it is better from all of the physical therapy and exercise I've been doing, it's still not where I want it to be.

I'm still contemplating getting the surgery, but this might help someone else with a more minor case:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGT9fiYWqCw