THE ROLE OF HYPERBARIC OXYGEN THERAPY IN A CASE OF SUSPECTED PUBIC OSTEITIS IN PROFESSIONAL ATHLETE
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"Pubalgia" is known to be an invaliding condition for athletes. until to force the athlete to long absences from the training or competitions, cause of wrong diagnosis or inadequate therapy. Here we describe the dinical case of a patient, male, 29, professional soccer player, admitted to our ambulatory for right inguinal and pubic district pain, irradiated to perineum until sacrum-coccygeum joint. A pelvic muscle-skeletal segment MRI examination showed a centimeter diameter endomedullar area, to be considered as a bone medullar oedema at anterior extremity of the right pubic branch. After careful clinical examination and verified the patient recruiting, HBOT treatment was started with this protocol: 2.8 ATA, inspiring 02 100% mixture, 1hour a day. On 28th treatment meeting patient felt a significant reduction of pain symptomatology. Following MRI examination was performed on 48th meeting treatment and showed evident reduction of oedematous area.
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