Osteitis Pubis Health Video

Osteitis Pubis is a cartilage inflammation in the pubic bone area is easily treatable. Learn more about what it is and how to treat it in this medical video clip.

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Prior to joining Memorial Hermann, Dr. Adickes completed his sports medicine fellowship under the tutelage of Dr. Richard Steadman of the Steadman Hawkins Clinic in Vail, Colo. Dr. Adickes completed his residency in orthopedic surgery at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn. In 2000, he earned his medical degree from Harvard Medical School in Boston, Mass.Dr. Adickes' career in medicine follows a remarkable decade-long career in the National Football League, during which he was a member of the 1991 Super Bowl Championship Washington Redskins Team. An alumnus of Baylor University, Dr. Adickes was inducted into the Baylor Sports Hall of Fame in 1998. Dr. Adickes serves as team physician for the Houston Rockets, U.S. Ski Team, Houston Livestock Show & Rodeo and St. Thomas University.

DR. MARK ADDICKES: Hi, I'm going to tell you a little bit about osteitis pubis. Osteitis pubis is a diagnosis a lot of people have never heard before. So the pubic symphysis is this little piece of cartilage in between your two pubic bones. Sometimes athletes will begin to develop pain that is located right on their pubic bone and they don't have any idea of what's going on. Because it's not where your groin muscles are and it's not where your hip joint is, and they're wondering what's happening. And what happens is that people develop inflammation of this cartilage in this area and the diagnosis needs to be made by a doctor because the only way you can see this inflammation is with X-rays sometimes and you can see it with an MRI. When it happens, very often just a stretching program to work on your hip flexibility can get rid of that inflammation. Sometimes a doctor will need to put an injection of a cortisone-type medicine down there in order to get rid of the pain. So once again, if you maintain good flexibility, sometimes you can avoid problems like osteitis pubis. When the pain gets bad enough consult your physician.

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