# groin strain - what's the best therapy?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/groin-strain-whats-the-best-therapy/93914>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [November 17, 2001, 7:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/groin-strain-whats-the-best-therapy/93914 "2001-11-17T07:13:08Z")\
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**Author:** ![Niobium\_Knight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/bc8723/32.png) [@Niobium\_Knight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Niobium_Knight)\
**Post date:** [November 17, 2001, 7:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/groin-strain-whats-the-best-therapy/93914/1 "2001-11-17T07:13:08Z")

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i got a groin strain doing taekwon-do. had it for over 2 weeks now what should i be doing to help it? is it best to stop all exersise until it’s completely healed? or will it just heal in time anyway?

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**Author:** ![Spit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/76d3ee/32.png) [@Spit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spit)\
**Post date:** [November 17, 2001, 11:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/groin-strain-whats-the-best-therapy/93914/2 "2001-11-17T11:56:12Z")

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Rest.

Rest.

More rest.

I had one that was mild, and it hung around for about a year, until I finally just did’nt do ANYTHING for about 3 weeks. I didn’t lift anything heavier than 5 lbs., didn’t have sex, and basically just lazed around…But it finally went away.

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Plato? Aristotle? Socrates? morons!  
~Wrap yourself in black, listen to the cure… -Better Than Ezra

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**Author:** ![peepthis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9d8465/32.png) [@peepthis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peepthis)\
**Post date:** [November 17, 2001, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/groin-strain-whats-the-best-therapy/93914/3 "2001-11-17T15:24:56Z")

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Deep muscle massage:). Serious. A few years back I had a groin injury (with my hip flexor), and when I had it treated the nurse used a sonogram (?) machine to repair the damaged areas, which was followed by 20 minutes or so of deep muscle massage. I was back playing the next week.

And lotsa rest. But you might want to try working on your girlfriend for that massage…just what the doctor ordered!