An athlete felt pain in his groin after a collision at the plate with an opposing player. He thought he had pulled a muscle, but it turns out he was suffering from a common condition seen in teens and young adults known as hip impingement.
“The issue with hip impingement is not treating it, but diagnosing it,” said Joshua Harris, M.D., a Houston Methodist orthopedic surgeon. “Ball and socket pain will be felt in the groin, which often leads to an initial diagnosis of a pulled groin. Some patients can spend six months to six years seeing three to five doctors before they finally get the correct diagnosis of hip impingement.”
Source: Science Daily
