Diagnosing

An inguinal hernia and a sports hernia are two funamentally different entities. Sports Hernia is a confusing misnomer for pubitis/tear of the rectus muscle insertion on the pubic bone in its simplest terms. This is not truly a hernia. A true inguinal hernia involves a defect in either the floor of the inguinal canal (direct inguinal hernia) or lateral to the epigastric vessels at the internal inguinal ring (indirect inguinal hernia).