TY - JOUR T1 - Sports medicine highlights from other journals JF - British Journal of Sports Medicine JO - Br J Sports Med SP - 1007 LP - 1007 DO - 10.1136/bjsports-2017-098371 VL - 52 IS - 15 AU - Ronan Kearney AU - Josh Heerey AU - Christina Le AU - Eoin Cunniffe Y1 - 2018/08/01 UR - http://bjsm.bmj.com/content/52/15/1007.abstract N2 - American Journal of Sports Medicine 2017;45:1304–1308Groin pain is very much a great big pain in the… groin! As a leading cause of injury in soccer, a true understanding of groin pain prevalence is needed. I’m concerned that the common time loss definitions for groin injury may only be identifying the tip of the ‘groin-berg’.This prospective study explored the prevalence of groin conditions in male and female soccer players during a period of match congestion in a competitive season. Two hundred and forty players completed the OSTRC Overuse Injury Questionnaire on weekly basis for a 6-week period.Shockingly, almost a third of male players reported weekly groin pain, with elite male players three times as likely to develop groin pain compared with elite female players.We clearly need to focus on ways … ER -