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- Knapik et al. examined the effects of core muscle surgery on NFL Combine performance, challenging existing beliefs about "sports hernia."
- Players who underwent surgery performed equally well as their peers, even those with lingering MRI findings.
- The paper highlights the crucial roles of MRI and experienced diagnosis in managing these injuries, providing valuable insights for athletes and football professionals.
Article Abstract
In their paper "Prevalence of Surgical Repair for Athletic Pubalgia and Impact on Performance in Football Athletes Participating in the National Football League Combine," Knapik et al. cut through the baloney in the literature on "sports hernia" and apply new eyes to the impact of the results of core muscle surgery on young elite athletes trying out for the National Football League (NFL). They found that the players who had surgery did just as well as all the others in and following NFL Combines. Even the players with presumptively residual, MRI findings did well. The paper is superb and identifies, in subtle ways, the importance of magnetic resonance imaging, as well as the role of experience in diagnosing and handling these injuries. The paper is a case control series that extracts tremendous beneficial information for sports physicians, athletic trainers, management, agents, players, and all of us Sunday afternoon, TV-watching football experts.
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| http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.arthro.2017.02.005 | DOI Listing |
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