Surgical or Conservative Treatment of Sportsman Hernia
CompletedNot applicableNCT00966589
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This study has no listed site in Canada in this snapshot. It is included as part of the worldwide chronic pain corpus.
Brief summary (from the registry)
Five to ten percent of athletes and physical active adults are suffering chronic groin pain. The most common diagnoses are adductor tendinitis, sportsman hernia and osteitis pubis. Sportsman hernia is not a real hernia in the groin, but overuse injury of the groin muscles and tendons. No evidence-based treatment of this disabling condition has been found so far. Experimental surgical treatments are based on various hernioplasties. Laparoscopic extraperitoneal hernioplasty (TEP) is a mini-invasive and effective method to heal sportsman hernia in non-randomized cohorts.
Study details
- Official title
- Chronic Groin Pain and Sportsman Hernia of Athletes: Randomized Study Between Conservative Treatment and Laparoscopic Hernioplasty (TEP)
- Conditions
- Groin Pain
- Interventions
- Procedure: laparoscopic hernioplasty (TEP)
- Sponsor
- Kuopio University Hospital
- Start date
- 2008-01
- Primary completion
- 2010-01
- Sex
- All
- Age range
- from 18 Years to 60 Years
- Results posted
- No results posted in this snapshot
- Countries
- Finland
- Total sites listed
- 1
Eligibility criteria
Show eligibility criteria (verbatim from the registry)
Inclusion Criteria: * severe groin pain lasting \> 6 months * sportsman hernia Exclusion Criteria: * other diagnosis ruled out by MRI and clinical examination
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov (US National Library of Medicine), snapshot October 2026. Check the registry for current recruiting status. Record: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT00966589