Following on from the last post from Stephanie Korolis, she explains that the football commentator’s delight, osteitis pubis, is a term that has fallen out of favour.
This information was from a course on hip and groin injuries that Steph attended in Melbourne recently.
Let’s continue the journey into the groin.
Current research outlines that there can either be individual, or quite often, multiple pathologies associated with groin pain which can quite often be misdiagnosed as a “tear”.
The typical demands involved in winter sports such as AFL or soccer are enormous, especially when considering the ongoing loads and ranges of movement required by the lower extremities throughout an extended period of high-contact activity.
Traditionally, a visit to the Physiotherapist with groin pain would result in typical diagnoses such as osteitis pubis (OP), athletic pubalgia or posterior wall weakness.
These outdated
terms have since been replaced by classifications that are a bit more useful for the breadth of possible causes for groin pain.
The current classification system is:
- Adductor-related groin pain
- Iliopsoas-related groin pain
- Inguinal-related groin pain
- Pubic-related groin pain
- Hip-related groin pain
- plus ‘Other’ causes of groin pain in athletes
So the next time Brian Taylor talks about someone with osteitis pubis, you can ‘tut tut’ him.
