Understanding Sports Hernia May Mean Understanding Adduction

Michael Boyle MA, ATC
Last year I wrote a piece called Understanding and Training Hip Flexion (StrengthCoach.com). The idea was to take a look at muscles of the hip and how these muscles function from a slightly different perspective. This process led me to continue to study the hip and how we look at this critical area. One of the things I pride myself on is continuing to try to learn. Fortunately or unfortunately I feel like the more I learn the more I realize I don't know. An area that has become of increasing interest to me, and to many others in the fields of performance enhancement and physical therapy, is the area of sports hernia. It seems like every week another athlete is having surgery for a 'sports hernia". . . . (to read the remainder of this article, please log in below.)