Editorial Commentary: Core Muscle Injuries or Athletic Pubalgia-Finally the Real Sausage, Not Just the Same Ole Baloney.
Journal Article (Editorial)
In their paper "Prevalence of Surgical Repair for Athletic Pubalgia and Impact on Performance in Football Athletes Participating in the National Football League Combine," Knapik et al. cut through the baloney in the literature on "sports hernia" and apply new eyes to the impact of the results of core muscle surgery on young elite athletes trying out for the National Football League (NFL). They found that the players who had surgery did just as well as all the others in and following NFL Combines. Even the players with presumptively residual, MRI findings did well. The paper is superb and identifies, in subtle ways, the importance of magnetic resonance imaging, as well as the role of experience in diagnosing and handling these injuries. The paper is a case control series that extracts tremendous beneficial information for sports physicians, athletic trainers, management, agents, players, and all of us Sunday afternoon, TV-watching football experts.
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Duke Authors
Cited Authors
- Meyers, WC
Published Date
- May 2017
Published In
Volume / Issue
- 33 / 5
Start / End Page
- 1050 - 1052
PubMed ID
- 28476362
Electronic International Standard Serial Number (EISSN)
- 1526-3231
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
- 10.1016/j.arthro.2017.02.005
Language
- eng
Conference Location
- United States