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We report 32 cases of a previously unde scribed condition in athletes of \"obturator neuropathy,\" a fascial entrapment of the obturator nerve where it enters the thigh. This condition represents a type of groin pain in athletes that is treatable by surgical means. There is a characteristic clinical pattern of ex ercise-induced medial thigh pain commencing in the region of the adductor muscle origin and radiating dis tally along the medial thigh. Needle electromyography demonstrates denervation of the adductor muscles. Surgical neurolysis treatment provides the definitive cure of this problem, with athletes returning to compe tition within several weeks of treatment. The surgical findings are entrapment of the obturator nerve by a thick fascia overlying the short adductor muscle. 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