DEAR MAYO CLINIC: My 17-year-old son plays high school soccer. After a recent game, he began complaining of pain in his lower abdomen that radiates down to his inner thigh. His primary care physician ...

A sports hernia, also known as athletic pubalgia, is a soft tissue injury that occurs in the groin area. The term refers to a strain or tear in any soft tissue, such as muscles, tendons, or ligaments, ...

A sports hernia is a tear or strain of your muscle, ligament, or tendon in your groin area or lower abdomen. You don’t need to play sports to get a sports hernia, but it’s more common in people who ...

DEAR MAYO CLINIC: My 17-year-old son plays high school soccer. After a recent game, he began complaining of pain in his lower abdomen that radiates down to his inner thigh. His primary care physician ...

Multiple types of hernias can cause back pain, including abdominal hernias and spinal hernias. Treatment can depend on the location and severity. Noticed some pain and maybe a strange bulge, perhaps ...

A friend of mine came to see me recently complaining of an odd ache he’d noted in his lower abs and groin. He couldn’t blame it on crunches at the gym, nor a cow kicking him in the belly again (he’s a ...

An abdominal hernia is when an internal organ, often the intestines or bladder, pokes through the wall of muscle that usually keeps it in. Most are inguinal hernias (occurring in the lower abdominal ...

Many things may cause a lump to appear in the groin or pelvic area, including cysts, swollen lymph nodes, a hernia, or enlarged blood vessels. Treatment will depend on the cause. The groin contains ...

Jennifer Steinhoff, MD, is a board-certified family medicine physician specializing in sports medicine. She practices sports medicine and non-operative orthopedics in Wisconsin. Urinary tract ...

Straining while constipated can increase pressure inside your abdomen and may increase your risk of developing a hernia. Hernias can also lead to constipation. A hernia is when part of an internal ...

Something finally stopped Damian Lillard. Now the Blazers need to figure out what exactly that is. In Wednesday night’s game against the Memphis Grizzlies, Lillard sustained a groin injury on a fourth ...