Ep 279: Treat the athlete, not her scan, with Pirette Claes & Dr Pim van Klij
About this episode
The episode discusses the relationship between hip morphology, groin symptoms, and the health of female athletes with insights from Dr Pim van Klij and Pirette Claes.
Hip morphology and hip injuries have been receiving increasing attention, which is a good thing given their prevalence and impact on athletes' health and performance. Today's guests combine the hip and groin field, with the attention that female athletes deserve to their health and performance. Dr Pim van Klij, who works with Dutch football/soccer powerhouse, Ajax, and Pirette Claes, who is starting her career in sports medicine, discuss the PROFE study. We focus on the work they have been leading to quantify the relationship between groin symptoms, and pubic symphysis radiological findings and skeletal maturity. Dr van Klij is sports medicine physician and Assistant Professor at Amsterdam University Medical Centre, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Sports Medicine. Pirette Claes is a medical intern at Leiden University Medical Centre, and an early-career researcher. ------------------------------ RESOURCES Prevalence of symphyseal radiographic findings and relationship to groin symptoms (PROFE study): https://www.jospt.org/doi/10.2519/jospt.2026.13580 JOSPT focused issue on hip and groin research (July 2026): https://www.jospt.org/toc/jospt/56/7
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