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The first diagnosis of groin pain is due to Spinelli and dates more than 80 years ago [1]. Since then this disease has never ceased to arouse interpretative and conceptual controversies. From etiopathogenic point of view, we know that the groin pain syndrome (GPS) is more frequent in sport activities like football, hockey, rugby, and distance running [2–11]. However, none of these publications relate the incidence of the injury to the number of licensed athletes into the various activities in question, and most of these studies would be rejected if we follow the minimum criteria of a meta-analysis. In effect, in the literature we find classified different types of GPS according to the type of pathologic lesion and to symptoms that are reported by the patient. For this reason often, an inaccurate diagnosis, leading to inadequate therapeutic interventions, can further lead to a very debilitating medical problem, sometimes forcing the athlete to long suspension of sport activity.
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Zini, R., Volpi, P., Bisciotti, G.N. (2017). Groin Pain Syndrome: A Final Assessment of the State of the Art. In: Zini, R., Volpi, P., Bisciotti, G. (eds) Groin Pain Syndrome. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-41624-3_22
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