The most common hockey injuries include:

• AC joint (shoulder)
• ACL strains or tears.
• Broken collarbone.
• Concussions.
• MCL strains or tears.
• Muscle strains.
• Shoulder dislocation.

A sports hernia is essentially a weakening of the lower abdominal wall – the muscles and the tendons in the area above the groin.Unlike a typical inlingual hernia that many athletes face, there is no outpouching of the abdomen into the hernia sac, if you will. Rather, it occurs in a place where the abdominal wall is too thin, where the tissue is too thin.

It can be experienced as a pull to the groin, essentially. An athlete who presents with sports hernia often presents with a slow onset of aching, dull pain in the lower abdomen, in the groin.