A strain in the lower abdominal muscles is sometimes referred to as a sports hernia, a soft-tissue injury in the lower abdomen or groin. A sports hernia is different than an inguinal hernia ...

The clinician, therefore, diagnosed an abdominal herniation. Figure 3: A barium-swallow contrast radiograph of the same 3-year-old male budgerigar in Fig. 1. In most cases, the hernia is of little ...