All joking aside

Nil d · Guru

All joking aside

barry33 · Guru

Nil d wrote:

Can someone explain to me exactly what is a groin injury?

Nilsey- on the upper thighs on the inside there is a muscle which goes from there to your actual "groin area". When you see players warming up you see them dragging one skate behind them and stretching. They are trying to stretch the groin muscle. When this is pulled or strained it is very painful and makes it almost impossible for you to do everything from starting and stopping, acelerating and turning. As you can imagine, it is extremely deadly for a goalie. Hope this helps. I can tell you from a guy who has "pulled a groin" when it happens it feels like someone is taking your wife's curling iron and putting it you know where (I can make that comparision because my ex wife did that to me once

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Nil d · Guru

barry33 wrote:

Nil d wrote: Can someone explain to me exactly what is a groin injury? Nilsey- on the upper thighs on the inside there is a muscle which goes from there to your actual "groin area". When you see players warming up you see them dragging one skate behind them and stretching. They are trying to stretch the groin muscle. When this is pulled or strained it is very painful and makes it almost impossible for you to do everything from starting and stopping, acelerating and turning. As you can imagine, it is extremely deadly for a goalie. Hope this helps. I can tell you from a guy who has "pulled a groin" when it happens it feels like someone is taking your wife's curling iron and putting it you know where (I can make that comparision because my ex wife did that to me once )

Wow! Sounds painful. I used to do that before games when I used to play gentlemen's hockey (the leg stretch, not the curling iron thing), but mainly because everyone else was doing it. I didn't realize I was stretchcing my groin muscles. And I never had a groin injury in my life (not a curling iron applied to me).

Thanks, barry.

And yes, I can see where your son gets his mean streak!

habs93 · Veteran Member

Also if you do not take care of a groin injury (pullled) it can move into your lower abdominal muscle - this happened to me (I didn't think I had a lower addominal muscle at the time LOL) and it takes quite a while to get rid of it as you can not do therepy on it right away as rest is the only opition in the beginning. Al Secord was one of the first NHL players to have a groin injury to move into his abdominal muscle and later he had to have surgery to help solve his injury woes but since Secord there has been other NHLers who have gone the surgery route so that is why now teams are so careful with groin injuries as sometimes you can play with the pain but it never heals.....

barry33 · Guru

habs93 wrote:

Also if you do not take care of a groin injury (pullled) it can move into your lower abdominal muscle - this happened to me (I didn't think I had a lower addominal muscle at the time LOL) and it takes quite a while to get rid of it as you can not do therepy on it right away as rest is the only opition in the beginning. Al Secord was one of the first NHL players to have a groin injury to move into his abdominal muscle and later he had to have surgery to help solve his injury woes but since Secord there has been other NHLers who have gone the surgery route so that is why now teams are so careful with groin injuries as sometimes you can play with the pain but it never heals.....

Mine moved into my lower abdominal muscle a number of years ago causing my waistband to expand by 6". Strangely it has never gone back to normal

heet_150 · Guru

Nil, now that you have your non-humourous answer;

And if you continually pull your groin, you will eventually go blind.

Nil d · Guru

habs93 wrote:

Also if you do not take care of a groin injury (pullled) it can move into your lower abdominal muscle - this happened to me (I didn't think I had a lower addominal muscle at the time LOL) and it takes quite a while to get rid of it as you can not do therepy on it right away as rest is the only opition in the beginning. Al Secord was one of the first NHL players to have a groin injury to move into his abdominal muscle and later he had to have surgery to help solve his injury woes but since Secord there has been other NHLers who have gone the surgery route so that is why now teams are so careful with groin injuries as sometimes you can play with the pain but it never heals.....

I once had a pulled abdominal muscle. It was especially painful when playing tennis. Serving was impossible. I just rode it out (and didn't play tennis) until it went away.

Nil d · Guru

heet_150 wrote:

And if you continually pull your groin, you will eventually go blind.

Hey, I don't even wear glasses!

brooklynhabfan · Guru

I once had a grain injury. It took weeks to remove that ear of corn. (sensitive area + large corn = well, you know)