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Surgical or Conservative Treatment of Sportsman Hernia

NCT00966589 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 50

Last updated 2017-03-09

No results posted yet for this study

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.

Conditions

  • Groin Pain

Interventions

PROCEDURE

laparoscopic hernioplasty (TEP)

Insertion of polypropylene mesh behind pubic bone

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Kuopio University Hospital

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Hannu EK Paajanen, MD, PhD · Central Hospital of Mikkeli, Finland

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
60 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2008-01-31
Primary Completion
2010-01-31
Completion
2010-02-28

Countries

  • Finland

Study Locations

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