Pulled Groin Essentials

Overview | Symptoms | Severity | Treatment | Prevention   A groin pull, or groin strain, is a partial tear of the small fibers the make up your adductor muscles. The adductors are a group of three muscles that are located on the upper, inner thigh. They stretch from the groin down the thigh to the inside of your knee. Your adduct muscles are responsible for pulling your legs together. Because...

Groin Strain Severity

Overview | Symptoms | Severity | Treatment | Prevention For a general overview of understanding the severity of a muscle pull, based on the typical muscle pull grading system, read this article on muscle pull symptoms. For more specific information regarding groin pulls, read on. To assess your level of groin injury, a doctor will typically discuss your symptoms, your overall health, and how...

Pulled groin treatment

A groin injury usually involves the muscles in the thigh and groin when these muscles have too much force applied or stretched suddenly they become strained causing an injury know as a groin pull. A groin pull injury can occur in patients who practice sports such as jumping, football and hockey. Symptoms of a groin pull vary depending on the severity usually the patient feels a severe pain...

Health & Fitness : How To Treat A Pulled Groin Muscle

It's important to distinguish between pulled groin muscles and ripped groin muscles, but pulled groin muscles should be treated with light stretching, cold showers, ice packs and relaxation. Avoid strenuous activity when trying to get pulled groin muscles to heal with help from a professional bodybuilder in this free video on health and fitness. Learn more about groin pain treatment.

Injury Report: Pulled Groin – Dr. Jasko & Dr. Petty On Titans

Dr. Jasko and Dr. Petty, both with Baptist Sports Medicine, discuss a pulled groin injury and how it can be caused by insufficient stretching, can be common to both athletic and non-athletic people, and more. To find out how to prevent pulled groin just click this link.

Pulled Groin Prevention

Overview | Symptoms | Severity | Treatment | Prevention Once your groin is feeling better, taking some steps to prevent future re-injury is well worth it. Here are some things to do to keep you from reinjuring your groin. Often a groin pull is the result of a sudden unexpected motion. Most sports require more strength in the forward/backward motion of the legs than the side-to-side. As a result...

Groin Strain Treatment

Overview | Symptoms | Severity | Treatment | Prevention Groin pain can range from intermittent, to nagging to excruciating. Regardless of the type and severity of the muscle pain, you have some good options for recovery. If it is a recent, mild strain, you can use the common method of RICE. This stands for Rest, Ice, Compress and Elevate. The point is to keep swelling down, which can facilitate...

Groin Pull Symptoms and Causes

Overview | Symptoms | Severity | Treatment | Prevention No matter how severe the strain, by its very nature a groin pull is both sudden and painful. The specific symptoms you’ll experience with a pulled groin depend upon the severity of the muscle strain. Common symptoms of a strained groin include: Pain in the groin and surrounding areas swelling and tenderness bruising in the...

Groin Pain Rehab – Pulled Groin Muscle

THIS HURTS! What hurts...: The right side of my groin area. How you hurt it...: I was surfing for about 6 hours straight when I took a wave and I pulled my groin while doing a bottom turn on the wave. I continued to surf through it, but it hurt really bad when I was done. When you hurt it...: I hurt it about three months ago and the pain goes away when I rest it. But as soon as I try surfing, I...

How do you avoid a pulled muscle?

Critical warm-up tips to avoid muscle pulls You wake up early intending to start the day with your morning training.  Throw on your work out clothes, do a few stretches, and off you go.  What is wrong with this picture? A few key things to understand. 1.  In the morning, the body is tight.  Over the course of the day, it loosens up.  If you plan to wake up and train first thing in the...