What the heck is a sports hernia?

To anyone who has had surgery with Dr. Meyers in Philadelphia: How is it coming along? Is the progress steady? Setbacks? Recovery tips? I’ve classic A. P. symptons–I think tear at the home erect/public bone, but we’ll see. Anything you can share will be greatly appreciated. You know how quickly an active, great life is changed by this.

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Jeana replying again from my last post Oct. 25th 2007. Now it is June 2009. I had got the surgery papers from previous inguinal hernia surgeries. Yes, for sure I did have a hernia on my left side. This is the side that reocurred with pain again, after surgery. Thankfully, a neurologist diagnosed the now existing ongoing problem. I had a freezing put in the left lateral contanious nerve of the thigh. Until the freezing wore off I could run, jump, and have no pain, where normally I can not walk that well without chronic pain. He diagnosed me with meralgia paresthetica. I now am looking into going to see another neurosurgeon to see if it is possible to permanently freeze the nerve. I don’t think it’s that easy though, I have been told that it will always feel frozen, and that the nerve ending will grow back, most likely causing the pain to return. I had been trying lazer therapy, which only brought a mild bit of relief. Absolutley nothing permanent for pain though, and what a lot of money for 20 treatments! Anyways, has anyone ever had a nerve permanently frozen in the inguinal area?

would avoid Meyers like the plague. I had a horrible result with him that left me severely debilitated. Operated 5 years ago, and then retore the hernia during rehabilitation. tried to call dr. meyers, but his staff assured me that retears are not possible. Eventually they let me schedule a three minute followup appt in which he barely gave me the time of day, and told me that retears are not possible and abruptly left the room. He has a serious jeckle-and hyde personality.

I tore the labrums in both hips during rehabilitation (this is common in people with sports hernias) and developed arthritis in both hips before another surgeon was able to diagnose the re-retear of the sports hernia. his re-do of the operation decreased my pelvic pain, but my hips and back are now destroyed.
suggest that you contact Richard Cattey or also can try Dr. Mushaweck in Germany (MLS is now sending many of their players overseas to see her rather than Dr. Meyers) My experience with Dr. Muschaweck was night and day compared to my experience with Meyers. They spend lots of time informing you about the procedure and ensuring proper rehabilitation. With Meyers, you are given best wishes and then will have difficulty getting him to provide adequate follow-up care.

I had posted a few articles. I had thought that I had sports hernia, then to have been diagnosed 3 years later with Meralgia Paresthetica, only to later find out it was the wrong diagnosis. I had tried lazer therapy, and no help with that. Now I have had nerve blocks on one of the inguinal nerves, and had no pain. It was a success. So now I am waiting to see if the cortisone shot with the freezing helps, and the step after that, to try and have the nerve permanently blocked, however, it isn't totally permanent, since the nerve endings grow back. This has been a long process of trying to figure out what happened and who to go to. My pain reocurred 6 months after my inguinal hernia repair surgery. I've been to a neurologist, and seen a neurosurgeon. I am having nerve blocks from an anesthesiologist at present. So basically, if someone feels they have sports hernia, and are not getting any help, maybe look into seeing a neurologist as well.

I have had left groin pain for two years.  I had surgery by Dr. Meyers and 2 months later, surgery from Dr. Stubbs in Winston Salem, NC.  I still have the left groin pain.  I went back for a follow up with Meyers and waited all day to get a 5 minute appointment where he told me he was 99% sure it was the joint causing the pain.  I wasted money to go back to Stubbs and then to Byrd, who both specialize in the hip joint.  They told me the joint looks fine…..Dr. Meyers sucked in my money and hardly gave me the time of day…

I woke up in the morning after a night of basketball and had pain in my groin, testicles, and the whole muscle down the back of my upper leg. I just thought I pulled a muscle so I tried to take it easy so it could heal. I still played basketball once a week for about 3 more weeks because the pain was not that bad. Then I decided to rest for a few months so it could heal but as soon as I ran for about 5 mins the pain came right back and it was worse than it was before. The pain in the back of my upper leg had healed but the groin pain and pain in my testicles was really bad. I went to the doctor and sent me to physical therapy which did not help at all. So I tried just resting it again for about 3 months and it still never got better. The doctor then sent me to a hernia specialist who believed it was a sports hernia. I got a second opinion from another doctor and he said he would go in with a camera an if he saw a hernia he would repair it. He checked both sides with the camera and found the sports hernia on my right side and fixed it. I had the surgery about 9 days ago and although I am still in some pain from surgery I can already tell that the problem is finally fixed. Also one of my symptoms besides the constant pain was random shooting pains that were very painful that would just happen and random times durning the day. I Hope this helps people who have the same problem. I am glad I had the surgery and am looking forward to running again.

After reading so many blog entries I am beginning to think there is no solution.  I'm 47 and have been practicing martial arts for years.  At first I only felt pain in my lower abdomen when doing situps.. It doesn't feel like a muscle pull/strain … too low… It was like that for about 9 mo's … then after a hard training session concetrating on kicks… it got worse… now I feel it when i get out of bed.. the car … sometimes just walking …  I have stopped training for 3 mo's… no better.  GP ruled out hernia … did xrays of pelvis and ultrasound nothing…He refered me to a general surgeon.. who spent all of 5 minutes with me and referred me to a "pain specialist" which to me sounds like a punt… I was thinking of going to Dr Myers … but it seems that every specialist has a negative blog… any success stories??

Ned your story is the same as mine in every detail let me know if you have any updates ektrader@aol.com