46 | Groin Pain and Inner Thigh Strain Explained
Want to know how you can possibly decrease your groin pain or inner thigh strain today? Tune in as Dr. Jen and Dr. Dom explores different inner thigh injuries, what populations tend to obtain these injuries, and exercises you can start today to decrease your pain. If you are an athlete of any kind, you have probably experienced one of these injuries and this podcast has the potential of increasing your performance while simultaneously decreasing your pain. If athletics is not your thing, this podcast will empower you with exploration techniques you can use on your hips to avoid or reduce risk of injury, as well as increase mobility and functionality.
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What You Will Learn in this PT Pearl:
02:11 – What adductors muscles are, what they do, and how they’re related to groin injury
05:23 – Types of bone injuries, or fractures, that can occur on the pelvis and recovery time
08:15 – What pubis symphysis and osteitis pubis are and the populations they’re common in
10:15 – What epiphyseal plates are and the population this injury effects
10:58 – Snapping hip syndrome and how to identify it
12:14 – How to explore your hips to identify where your hip injury is taking place
13:05 – What an inguinal hernia is and what it might entail
13:44 – Simplified explanation as to why you may be having an injury - Why exploration is important
14:44 – Why mobility of the hips, and any part of your body, is so important
15:27 – Mobility exercise for tight hip rotators
16:32 – Minimum requirement of hip adductor mobility
17:52 – How adductor activation can decrease pain - Exercises that help activate these muscles
To Watch the PT Pearl on YouTube, click here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpjtJa
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See full show notes here: https://jen.health/podcast/46
