20% of patients with groin injury seen at the Groin Pain Clinic will get better with physiotherapy alone. However, this could take over 12 months of work. It can be a useful option for those who definitely don’t want to have surgery and have plenty of time to work on their treatment without surgery.
However when a sports hernia is detected, only one proven case in 1,500 patients treated resolved his sports hernia condition by physiotherapy alone. This player was a State cricket player who had optimal physiotherapy for 2 years.
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