Hip and Groin Injuries in Basketball

Abstract

Basketball is a physically demanding, high-speed pivoting sport in which injury risk, especially to the lower limbs, is high, including injuries to and around the hip [1–5]. Basketball players perform repetitive activities that require wide ranges of motion of the hip such as jumping, pivoting, sprinting, and direction changes. These repetitive activities over time may contribute to the development of various injuries in and around the hip. While the last two decades have introduced a better understanding of intra-articular hip pathology, the majority of injuries to the hip in basketball are still extra-articular. However, as the understanding and diagnosis of femoro-acetabular impingement syndrome (FAIS) has increased in recent years, it is likely that a number of athletes might have been misdiagnosed as having a “strain” over the years when pain etiology was actually FAIS. This chapter addresses the spectrum of the common hip and groin injuries in basketball, diagnosis and management, from soft tissue injuries to extra- and intra-articular impingement, with a focus on FAIS.