Core muscle injuries

Over the past half century, people have used a number of terms to describe the musculoskeletal injuries that affect the abdomen, pelvis and thighs of athletes. The terms reflect the various specialty disciplines of those who use them and obscure cohesive insight into the nature of these problems. In this chapter, my radiologist partner and I advise new eyes and propose nomenclature to represent new insight into the various problems. We base our request on our own clinical findings extracted from a large personal experience, coupled with some anatomical studies as well as observations of others. With respect to these injuries, we strive for the reader to embrace the above-cited Marcel Proust observation.

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Author William Clark Meyers Surgery