Groin Pain Syndrome

1 Classification and Differential Analysis.- 2 Inguinal Region Anatomy .- 3 Physiology and Biomechanics.- 4 Radiologic Diagnosis.- 5 Femoral Acetabular Impingement.- 6 Acetabular Labral Tear.- 7 Instability.- 8 Cartilage Pathology.- 9 Other Cartilaginous Hip Pathology.- 10 Extra-articular Hip Pathology.- 11 Inguinal Pathology.- 12 Sports Hernia.- 13 Urogenital Pathology.- 14 Adductor and Upright Abdominal Tendinopathy.- 15 Iliopsoas Tendinopathy.- 16 Osteitis Pubis and Pubic Symphysis Arthropathy.- 17 Nerve Entrapment Syndrome.- 18 Conservative Rehabilitation Treatment (strength exercises, stretching, strength exercises, physical therapy).- 19 Postsurgical Rehabilitation (FAI - hernioplasty - tendon surgery).- 20 Groin Pain Syndrome: A Final Assessment of the State of the Art.

Raul Zini, MD, is Scientific Director of GVM Care and Research, a private medical group with 18 hospitals in Italy, and practices as an orthopedic surgeon in Rome, Bologna, Cotignola, and Civitanova Marche. Dr. Zini is a Professor at the Biomedical Campus University of Rome and President of the Groin Pain Faculty of the Italian Society of Arthroscopy (SIA). He is a past president of the SIA and has been the recipient of the Bellando-Randone Award from SIOT. He is the author of more than 100 scientific papers in Italian and international journals and of seven previous scientific books, including a title on Hip Arthroscopy.
Piero Volpi is an Orthopedic Surgeon and Sports Medicine Specialist and Director of the Knee Surgery and Sport Traumatology Unit at Humanitas Clinical Institute IRCCS, Milan. He played professional football from the beginning of the 1970s until 1985 while maintaining his medical studies. He is now Head of Medical Staff FC Internazionale Milan, Italy, and he is Responsible Physician of the Italian Association of Football Players (AIC). He has also recently been appointed as member of U.E.F.A. Medical Committee. Dr. Volpi is Teaching Professor at the Specialty School of Orthopedics and Traumatology at the University of Milan. He is also Vice-President of Italian Arthroscopy Society (SIA) and member of several national and international scientific societies: Siot, Sigascot, Fmsi, Isakos, Esska, and Eka. He is the author of more than 300 publications and over 600 contributions, including book chapters, articles, and presentations to scientific national and international meetings. He is Editor in Chief of the Journal of Sports Traumatology and Member of Editorial Board of Medicina dello Sport Journal.

Gian Nicola Bisciotti is Physiologist Lead at Aspetar orthopedic and sports medicine hospital. After a sports career that saw him engaged for more than 25 years in Judo, in 1992 he resumed his studies and he graduated in Science