BACKGROUND The increasing utilization of balloon guide catheters (BGCs) in thrombectomy therapy for ischemic stroke has led to concerns about large-bore sheaths causing vascular groin complications.Objective To retrospectively assess the impact of large large-bore sheaths and vascular closure devices on groin complication rates at a comprehensive stroke center over a 10-year period. METHODS R...

BACKGROUND Groin injuries are troublesome in men's and women's football. AIM To review the literature on the epidemiology of groin injury in senior football and compare injury occurrence between sexes. METHODS Studies were identified through a search of PubMed, EMBASE, CINAHL and Web of Science, in the reference lists of the selected articles and the authors' bibliographies. The number of i...

BACKGROUND In contrast to the well-described 10% risk of chronic pain affecting daily activities after adult groin hernia repair, chronic pain after childhood groin hernia repair has never been investigated. Studies of other childhood surgery before the age of 3 months suggest a risk of increased pain responsiveness later in life, but its potential relationship to chronic pain in adult life is ...

BACKGROUND/AIM Groin injuries are common in football and ice hockey, and previous groin injury is a strong risk factor for future groin injuries, which calls for primary prevention. The aim of this systematic review was to evaluate the effect of specific groin-injury prevention programmes in sports. METHODS A comprehensive search was performed in May 2014 yielding 1747 potentially relevant re...

BACKGROUND: Use of the femoral vein for intravenous access by injecting drug users (IDUs) (commonly called 'groin injecting') is a practice that is often observed but on which little is written in the literature. The purpose of this study was to describe self-reported data from a sample of groin injectors on the natural history and rationale regarding their groin injecting, to inform future res...

Groin injuries are a common and often difficult diagnostic problem. This paper reviews six patients presenting with symptoms highly suggestive of the syndrome 'Gilmore's groin', but in whom the pathophysiology of the groin disruption and its surgical management differed from Gilmore's description.

Femoral neck stress fracture . . . . . . . . . . . . e251 Acetabular labral tears . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . e252 Pubic ramus stress fracture . . . . . . . . . . . . . e252 Osteitis pubis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . e252 Groin hernia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . e253 ‘Sports hernia’ or ‘groin disruption’ . . . . . . . . e254 Ilioinguinal neuralgia . . . . . . . . . ....

BACKGROUND Adductor-related pain is the most common clinical finding in soccer players with groin pain and can be a long-standing problem affecting physical function and performance. Hip adductor weakness has been suggested to be associated with this clinical entity, although it has never been investigated. PURPOSE To investigate whether isometric and eccentric hip strength are decreased in s...

Groin pain is a frequent cause of discomfort in patients and highly prevalent in active patients. One of the diagnoses causing groin pain is femoroacetabular impingement (FAI). However, the incidence of FAI in the general population is unknown. This study aimed to identify the incidence of groin pain suggestive of FAI in a cohort of 31 451 patients in the Netherlands during 1 year. A cooperatio...