Athletic supporters hold a protective cup in place over your groin area while providing freedom of movement for your hips and buttocks. You should wear a well-fitted jock strap with a cup while playing football to protect your groin, particularly your testicles. The testicles are sensitive and their anatomical location on your body makes them vulnerable to collision injuries while playing football.
Testosterone and Procreation
Wearing a protective jock with a cup while playing football may help you retain healthy testosterone production, which is needed to have biological children. Produced in the testicles, testosterone is responsible for male sex characteristics, such as muscle mass and body hair. Protective jocks protect your testicles and help you retain normal testosterone levels. Wearing a protective jock also improves your changes of having biological children, because testosterone is required for sperm production.
Collision Discomfort
Protective jocks with a cup reduce the severity or incidence of testicular discomfort you may experience while playing football. Your testicles are particularly sensitive and vulnerable to pain because they are not protected by bones and muscles like most of your organs and reproductive system. Although the sponginess of your testicles helps absorb most collisions without long-term damage, you will still experience significant pain upon impact. While playing football, your testicles may collide with the ground or other players. Nausea and pain for several minutes after impact may occur.
Serious Injuries
You should wear a protective jock while playing football to avoid serious testicular injuries, such as testicular torsion. Strenuous physical activity, such as play playing football, may inadvertently twist and cut off circulation to one of your testicles. These torsion injuries can lead to loss of a testicle and require immediate medical attention. The risk of further complications increases substantially if you do not get medical care within six hours after pain starts. Testicular torsion may also reduce your sperm production. You may need surgery if your doctor is unable to manually untwist the testicle. Middle- and high-school football players may be more likely to experience testicular torsion. TeensHealth.org reports that testicular torsion is most common in males between ages 12 and 18.
Excruciating Collisions
Wearing a protective jock with a cup protects you from excruciating and severe testicular injuries, such as testicular ruptures. Ruptures, like torsion injuries, require surgery and may cause long-term hormonal or sperm problems. You may also lose the testicle. Playing football increases your changes of rupturing a testicle because the sport exposes you to forceful direct blows, which can rupture a testicle. For example, tackling may produce impact that ruptures one of your testicles. Collisions that crush your testicles against your pubic bone may also cause a rupture. This type of injury causes scrotal swelling and extreme pain as blood leaks into your scrotum. Nausea and vomiting may also occur if you rupture a testicle.
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