Groin pain

Are you a sportsman? Do you train often? Do you feel a pain in the groin or pubic area?

It can be pubalgia.

Pubalgia, also called Recto-adductor syndrome, involves an overload of the muscles of the pelvic area.

People at risk

The most affected patients are sportsmen, footballers, tennis players chi who practice sports frequently and high effort.

Pubalgia affects mainly male individuals; the woman can suffer from it especially in pregnancy due to the size of the fetus; often in these cases, pubalgia is accompanied by low back pain.

Symptoms and causes

Pubalgia involves the adductor and rectum of the abdomen, which are constantly injured, causing varying degrees of pain, up to chronic pain, that is, pain that does not respond to pharmacological treatment.

Pubalgia can be high (pain localized in the abdominal area), low (adductor zone). The nature of the disease can also be traumatic (accident, stretching, sharp movement).

Diagnosis

Pubalgia is diagnosed clinically by specialist visit. Localized pain, burning in the inner thigh, feeling of overactive bladder, some of the unmistakable signs of the onset of the disease.

Indicated examinations

To support the diagnosis and to detect the state of inflammation, you can prescribe an MRI or ultrasound.

The therapy varies according to the degrees of pain; for mild cases, a rest period may be sufficient. For more intense cases with acute pain (pain Grade 1 and 2) therapies vary. Let’s see them in detail:

• High frequency laser therapy and shock waves that through the release of acoustic pulses also dissolve any calcifications:
• Regenerative magnetotherapy (www.osteoplus.com) immediately produces an anti-inflammatory and analgesic effect. Low frequency relaxes muscles, increases blood flow.

It is advisable once physical activity is resumed, devote time to stretching to relax stressed muscles during training.

Take a look at our therapy for the treatment of pubalgia