Endurance athletes with hip pain should be evaluated for femoral neck stress fractures.

“you get a groin pain because that's where that's where stress fractures of the femoral neck hurt right away we know we need to rule it out and they tend to occur in the femoral neck and we have two locations either this is called the compression side and this is called the tension side of the neck and tension sided fractures where you get a little crack in the bone here are much more severe than compression side but the bottom line is that we need to know that this exists and the patient will feel groin pain which is otherwise difficult for them to differentiate I mean they're not going to come in and say my femoral neck hurts correct it's what is the actual feeling does it feel akin to what you would feel if you pulled a muscle in your groin it does except it's very weightbearing dependent”