well i wont finish that sentence but you get my point.

the worst part is you really cant even walk either. when i had mine i walked bow-legged for a few weeks

it looks like you really found the exact moment he got the injury

This sounds like a problem with the trainers not stretching enough or doing enough strengthening exercises for the weak muscle groups in question.

The rash of hamstring injuries the Yankees had last year were probably completely the pitcher trainer’s fault in lack of stretching.

If you see a rash of back surgery problems in the NFL, you probably have a trainer who focuses too much on power clean type lifts as well. The training staff goals and philosophy on which exercises are most useful vary greatly from organization to organization.
In this particular instance, I’d wager it’s a combination of lack of stretches and conditioning, and not overwork.

I play soccer and got a sports hernia half way through the season and played through it. Won’t require surgery until it gets bad enough… probably next season. They say the complications of surgery outweigh the risk of playing with it until you can’t tolerate it anymore…I can’t imagine what it would be like to play with one playing football. I would have to take an ice bath after every training session and game.

Anyways I don’t think it is an issue of them “working out to hard” but it is from people’s abdominal wall being too thin. I was not lifting at all when mine occured.

Hey, at least we’re not in Cleveland, right?

But on a more serious note, I wonder if more players around the league have these, but just aren’t aware of them, and think they are just playing through pain.

One of the three nationwide specialists on Sports Hernias is in Philadelphia: Dr. William Meyers at Hahnemann Hospital.