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Adductor Tendinopathy

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The Lower Limb Tendinopathies

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Adductor pain is very common in sports, but it is essential to distinguish among true tendinopathy, which is an enthesopathy (adductor longus insertion pain on the pubis), a tear of the myotendinous junction, which is rarer, and projected pain, where the adductors are affected the victims rather than being the cause: in abdominal groin pain (pubalgia) and all hip problems, especially femoral acetabular impingement (FAI), which affects young athletic population. Adductor tendinopathy can be isolated, but is also often associated with pubalgia. Once a positive diagnosis has been established, treatment can be tailored to the cause: medical for isolated tendinopathy, and often surgical in the form associated with pubalgia. Abdominal parietal pain is often the evolution of neglected adductor tendinopathy, which is why we must encourage those in the sporting environment to be more rigorous in the management of this pathological condition.

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Ferret, JM., Barthélémy, Y., Lechauve, M. (2016). Adductor Tendinopathy. In: Bisciotti, G., Volpi, P. (eds) The Lower Limb Tendinopathies. Sports and Traumatology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-33234-5_3

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