Hindman: Of Hamilton, Adductors & The Future

Unsettling (for Rangers fans) speculation on Hamilton injury issues:

A couple of weeks ago, Josh Hamilton disclosed that what had originally been reported as a groin pull and / or a sports hernia as he sucked it up and fought through the 2011 post-season in excruciating pain was actually neither a groin pull nor a sports hernia.  Not exactly.  It was far more serious. 

Hamilton disclosed that the adductor muscle group in his inner left thigh had almost completely detached.  Hamilton explained that three of the muscles in this group had completely detached and that the fourth one “was about to pop.”

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Moreover, it seems clear from the medical research I was able to browse that the abdominal tear that Hamilton also suffered this year is also connected to the athletic pubalgia. It seems not at all uncommon that severe cases of athletic pubalgia indicate a strong possibility of other issues in the core and lower half. 

Hamilton may not be merely unlucky and it may not be as simple as passing his increasing litany of injuries off as a matter of his “style of play.”  This severe injury might quite likely be yet another sign of a body that is literally beginning to deteriorate rather significantly.