Many different ways of clinically assessing hip strength in athletes exist today. Substantial reliability and good discriminative validity exist for both unilateral hip strength tests and for the squeeze test. These tests are therefore recommended for both clinical and research purposes. Early investigations indicate that unilateral strength measurements can be considered to be relevant to include in the monitoring of rehabilitation and in the return to play process for athletes with groin injury, but more research is needed in this area.
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