If you follow sp0rts as avidly as I do, you will very likely have noted on far too many occasions that a groin pull is not only one of the more common injuries afflicting high-level athletes, it’s also one of the more troublesome injuries an athlete can suffer, an injury for which it’s often very hard to predict a timeline for returning to that sport.
In Vancouver, for example, it’s safe to say that for n agonizingly long time this past year, while he was recuperating from a reputed groin injury, Roberto Luongo’s groin was getting more questions and certainly was the subject of much more speculation than the problems plaguing the economy, and to be fair, I really can’t say which – the economy or Roberto’s groin – matters more to most of us.
Actually, I can say: it’s clearly Roberto’s groin.
But it’s not just famous athletes who suffer groin pulls – they can also happen to average, low-level athletes for whom they can be just as problematic so the big question that has long perplexed sports medicine experts is how do you treat groin pulls – do you treat groin pulls with rest or with special exercises.
So the good news is that according to a recent study from Australia, which was published in the journal, Sports Medicine, Arthroscopy, Rehabilitation, Therapy and Technology (who’s the genius, I’d like to know, who came up with that amazingly cumbersome title?), there is a winner in this contest: exercises that strengthen the hip and abdominal muscles are the preferred mode of treatment for groin injuries.
In other words, if you injure your groin, don’t just lay back and take it, but go out there and strengthen it.
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