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Medical Forum / General / General / January 2007Athlete with groin / inguinal hernia
Just letting members know of a hernia story on our website. Ironman Roy trained for a triathlon and completed the event although he had a groin hernia. To treat himself while training, he used a combination of Pilates exercises and a Flat Pad support garment that does not dig into the hernia. You can read his diary at http://www.herniabible.com. The site is for (and about) people with hernias who have not opted for surgery, or are waiting for surgery. We created it because we could not find anything much on the web about non-surgical options. Hernia belts and trusses are available for sale but surgeons say they often don't fit well enough to keep the hernia in at all times. (And they can have hard round pads which dig into the hernia). The Flat Pad (TM) support which Roy used is from http://www.groin-hernia.com/hernia-support.html Linda > Just letting members know of a hernia story on our website. Ironman Roy > trained for a triathlon and completed the event although he had a groin [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > > Linda It's true that surgery may not be necessary for adult men or women with asymptomatic inguinal hernias. They are at risk for strangulation of herniated intestine, but this is not terribly uncommon. For those with symptomatic hernias or hernias at high risk for incarceration/strangulation, trusses and other such nostrums generally don't work and may very well increase the risk of strangulation. There are no non-surgical options for the definitive treatment of symptomatic inguinal hernia. HMc > > Just letting members know of a hernia story on our website. Ironman Roy > > trained for a triathlon and completed the event although he had a groin [quoted text clipped - 24 lines] > > HMc I don't think you checked out the site... Hernias are less likely to become strangulated if held in. If the edges are kept together, they can heal. There are many accounts of this in old medical textbooks. It has taken years to develop this flat pad support which holds the hernia painlessly together at all times, whether working, cycling, or digging the garden. I would respectfully suggest that you read the case history... Linda www.herniabible.com >I don't think you checked out the site... > Hernias are less likely to become strangulated if held in. If the edges > are kept together, they can heal. The only sure way to keep a hernia held in is to remove the hernia sac and tighten the internal ring ( if indirect) or to secure the muscle wall defect (if direct). A truss does nothing to bring the edges of a hernia defect together. It only reduces the contents. As to a hernia, ANY kind of hernia, healing on its own, that's nonsense. Sorry. HMc Medical history is fully of people who said "the only way..." and were completely wrong. Medical consensus is transient and does not make something a fact. Sometimes it's good to keep an open mind. If you are selling hernia operations, of course I understand you must protect your position, but I have just met a third person whose hernia has healed without surgery. I have also come across quite a few who are still suffering from chronic pain complications years after surgery and wish they had never had it. Linda > >I don't think you checked out the site... > > Hernias are less likely to become strangulated if held in. If the edges [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > > HMc > Medical history is fully of people who said "the only way..." and were > completely wrong. Medical consensus is transient and does not make [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > > Linda The anecdotes from Roy and Craig, and your other new buddy prove that hernias will heal non-operatively in the same way that the hundreds of anedotes about alien abduction prove that such abductions exist. Do you therefore believe in alien abduction? I can cite many, many websites that prove it using the same logic you're trying to use to sell your hernia belts. Wishful thinking on your part...but then this is certainly the right place for it. HMc |
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