Groin Pain

Acute groin pain is usually relatively simple diagnose. Chronic groin pain, however, can be caused by a numerous factors.

In patients with groin pain it is important to localise the area of abnormality. There are many reasons for groin pain arising from:

Adductor (inner thigh) muscles - chronic muscle strain or tendinopathy occur.

Hip joint - labral tear, synovitis, trochanteric bursitis or a stress fracture of the neck of femur.

Pubic bones - osteitis pubis or stress fracture of the pubic ramus.

Abdominal muscles - strain of the hip flexors, appendicitis, or an inguinal hernia.

Burstis - there are a number of bursae contained within the groin and many of these are susceptible to overuse and inflammatory change.

Refered pain - lower thoracic spine, the lumbar spine or the sacroiliac (SI) joint.