Groin and inner-thigh pain that flares with sprinting, cutting, or even just crossing your legs for too long has a way of getting misdiagnosed for months. You've probably already heard "adductor strain," maybe "athletic pubalgia," maybe "it's probably your hip." You've done the stretches, the rest weeks, the generic hip-mobility routine from a physio handout, and the deep, aching, sometimes…

If a physician has told you that your femoral nerve pain, thigh weakness, or numbness running down the front of your leg is "neuritis" and left it at that, you have probably noticed how little that label actually explains.