00:00What could be wrong with his core and how bad does something like that have to be for both the
00:07player and the team doctors to decide that surgery was the best option available?
00:12We used to call these kind of sports hernias. I've treated them for athletes and for many years. But really
00:18what it is, it's either an injury or chronic degeneration, some kind of pathology in the lower abdominal wall and
00:27pelvic region.
00:28So that's like the lower abs, your rectus abdominis, as well as the upper parts of your adductors, the muscles
00:34on the inside of your thighs.
00:35And those are like your adductor, magnus and longus muscles. Those all come off the same bone, the pubic bone
00:41in the front of your pelvis.
00:42And whether from an acute injury or repetitive strain, you can get a lot of pain in that area.
00:47To require surgery, you know, it has to be pretty severe, obviously limiting the play.
00:52How would you treat and advise a non-professional athlete with this same injury?
00:56Some people with this core muscle injury, they can have a lot of pain and pain is their primary problem.
01:01They're not an elite athlete that needs all their muscles at 100%.
01:04And so you can do a little bit more of a simpler procedure where you just release the adductor longest
01:08muscle.
01:09And that can very reliably improve the pain that you're having and get rid of the symptoms.
01:14In that case, you haven't repaired anything. You don't have to protect it as much.
01:17The recovery for that is much easier, much faster.
01:22So, you know, patients can kind of feel a lot better, be walking, minimal restrictions at a much sooner time
01:28interval.
01:29Let's go.
01:29Let's go.
01:29Let's go.
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