Welcome news for groin and hip sufferers

New research by the Sports Surgery Clinic will help athletes and GAA players recover from groin and hip injuries in nine weeks, according to Enda King, head of Performance Rehabilitation at the Santry-based centre, athletes have normally been spending almost twice as long undergoing various rehabilitation programmes.

“Often athletes have been advised to rest for anywhere between four and six months and then gradually build it back up again. So, when you’ll offer them nine weeks, they’ll nearly take the hand off you. Also, nine weeks is very much the average of what we’re looking at. So, there are athletes that are quicker, athletes that are slower.”

King believes treatment of hip and groin injuries has suffered from common misconceptions and, subsequently, athletes have struggled through a misguided rehab, sometimes not recovering properly.