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Core Muscle Injury: Open your Eyes – It’s the Core

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This chapter is an introduction to the core. Defined as the entire body from the chest to mid-thigh, it can be generally broken up into four broad categories: the hip joints, the skeletal muscles, the spine, and everything else. Understanding the anatomy is the key to understanding common causes of lower abdominal and groin pain. This chapter provides a discussion of core muscle anatomy, diagnosis, and treatment of core muscle injuries and a preview of the chapters to follow.

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  1. Vincera Institute, Philadelphia, PA, USA

    Alexander E. Poor, James P. Villamere & William C. Meyers

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Editors and Affiliations

  1. Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL, USA

    Shane J. Nho

  2. Department of Orthopedic Surgery, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA

    Bedi Asheesh

  3. Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA

    Michael J. Salata

  4. Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Duke Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA

    Richard C. Mather III

  5. Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Weill Medical College of Cornell Univers, New York, NY, USA

    Bryan T. Kelly

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  1. Houston Methodist Center for Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine, Houston, TX, USA

    Joshua D. Harris

  2. Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL, USA

    Joshua D. Harris

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Poor, A.E., Villamere, J.P., Meyers, W.C. (2021). Core Muscle Injury: Open your Eyes – It’s the Core. In: Nho, S.J., Asheesh, B., Salata, M.J., Mather III, R.C., Kelly, B.T. (eds) Hip Arthroscopy and Hip Joint Preservation Surgery. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7321-3_186-1

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