Heya

I'm a first year physiotherapy student so I apologise if my terminologies are a little weird but I would really appreciate your help.

A dancer I know has a pain at their hip/groinal area.
She has been to many Doctors and Physiotherapists to try to diagnose what is wrong with her but they still do not know exactly what is going on.
She has had 5 steroid injections into her groin in an attempt to rectify the situation.

She does not appear to have any joint pain at the hip and her Wikipedia reference-linkMRI is clear indicating nothing structurally wrong with the joint itself.
However she does have some pain when actively testing the adductor muscles in her lower limb.
She describes the pain as continuous even when she is relaxing. It is described as a "throbbing" pain.
It is aggravated by walking and is not eased by either hot or cold modalities.
My thoughts are that she might have damaged her Pubofemoral ligament or Pectineal muscle or adductor group of muscles.

Her goal is to go back to professional ballet as soon as possible.

ROM at knee is normal.
ROM at hip is reduced until the hip joint audibly pops, at which point normal ROM is available.

If you guys could help me with this, it will be much appreciated. Mainly due to the fact that I have been thinking about this for a while now and it is not making sense to me.

Best Regards

Mark

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