Pubalgia MRI 18M 2 years medial groin pain when running, recruited for college football, Please Help

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I don’t see an Adductor strain.
On the anteroinferior to the left there seems to be a chondral avulsion at
the insertion of the arcutate ligament (red arrow) and the pubic plate (bue
arrow).
I don’t see a cleft. Seems to be a bit much fluid in the anterior capsule.
Do you agree? Or is there something else going on here?
He is off to collegiate football and pain limits his running speed.
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3 thoughts on “Pubalgia MRI 18M 2 years medial groin pain when running, recruited for college football, Please Help”

  1. hilary.umans

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  2. This is a pattern we see in young males, Hilary.

    In the cor image to the right of the one with the red arrow, there is a secondary cleft. And its a variant of cleft that might be termed a “posterior secondary cleft”, implying that the right pubic plate is disrupted from the periosteum poteroinferior to the pubic tubercle.

    Then on the sag, right of midline, there is a little breech in the plate at the pubic tubercle, but it extends posterior and inferior.

    These can be really symptomatic and can also lead to bigger injuries. I think your choices include trying an US guided tenotomy followed by a couple of weeks of rest, or direct him to Vincera, where he will likely get a core muscle repair.

    If you want to try tenotomy, you will see the breech in a sag plane with US. Find it and then repeatedly pepper the plate below the breech into the periosteum. You can optionally follow with a bit of steroid (I know, counterintuitive, but tends to work).

    Adam

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  3. I discussed this further with Adam Zoga…who simply forgot to comment on
    the more obvious left sided injury—he was distracted by the changes on
    the Right.

    He said: the injury is anterior on the left & posterior on the right. On
    the left, the pubic apophysis never fused, so the BME reflects instability.
    That unfused osseous fragment is in the left plate, so it hurts.

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