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‘Sports hernia’ not your average injury

By MEREDITH COHN THE BALTIMORE SUN

Posted: January 14, 2013 at 2:14 a.m.

That chronic groin pain sometimes felt by athletes may be called a sports hernia, but it’s not a hernia at all, says Dr. Katherine G. Lamond, assistant professor of surgery at the University of Maryland School of Medicine and a surgeon at the University of Maryland Medical Center.

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