Study Status: Completed
Recruit Status: Completed
Study Type: Interventional
Official Title: Chronic Groin Pain and Sportsman Hernia of Athletes: Randomized Study Between Conservative Treatment and Laparoscopic Hernioplasty (TEP)
Brief Summary: 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.