Jacob Saccal is back to playing lacrosse and other sports after treatment for a sports hernia.
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AFTER 19 DOCTOR’S APPOINTMENTS AND ONE SURGERY, A COLLEGE ATHLETE IS FINALLY PAIN-FREE.
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n March 2018, Jacob Saccal, a freshman at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona Beach, Fla., was playing the position of attack in a college lacrosse game. As the Division II athlete planted his left foot and turned to the right—a move that resembles a high-speed shuffle—he felt pain in his pelvic area, upper thigh and lower abdomen. At first, the pain was
Summer 2020
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