What is the relationship between groin pain in athletes and femoroacetabular impingement?

Groin symptoms in athletes have been likened to the Bermuda Triangle as sports physicians, orthopaedists, surgeons and therapists alike are easily sucked into a sea of confusing suppositions and assump-tions. Possibly the greatest advance in the understanding and appreciation of ‘sports hernia’ has been the recent acknowledgment by a multidisciplinary panel of experts that there is in fact no hernia associated with the condition and they have coined the term ‘inguinal disruption’. Unfortunately, although the authors describe a constellation of symptoms, the label again suggests a localised pathology rather than a syndrome