Pubic Bone Inflammation (Symphysitis): Therapy

General measures

• As a conservative therapeutic measure: initial immobilization and relief.
• In extremely painful course of the disease, which is not uncommon, athletes must endure a longer-term training and competition interruption.

Drug therapy

• Anti-inflammatory drugs (anti-inflammatory drugs) from the group of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs).
• If necessary, also glucocorticoid therapy.

Conventional non-surgical therapy methods

• Infiltration of the symphyseal joint space under image intensifier with a local anesthetic (agent for local anesthesia) combined with a corticosteroid; depending on the stage of symphysitis, success rates of more than 80% have been reported in the literature

Medical aids

• Insoles supply – to correct a defective statics of the arch of the foot.

Physical therapy (including physiotherapy)

• Physical therapy – to strengthen trunk and pelvic floor muscles, as well as stretching exercises of adductor muscles (group of skeletal muscles that are part of pulling (adduction) a limb).
• Ultrasound treatment
• Cryotherapy (cold therapy) – for pain therapy.
• Electrotherapy – for pain therapy