How Sports Hernia surgery ruined my life
Hi everyone my name is Peter and I’m a professional dancer that became functionally disabled following a sports hernia surgery in 2020 with Dr. William Brown in Fremont, California. He caused so much damage that he took an isolated groin injury that was not noticeable to the naked eye and turned it into whole body dysfunction. Many days I am in either so much pain or discomfort that I can’t think straight. I went from being a professional athlete to having issues going on a 60 minutes walk.
In a 90 minutes operation Dr. Brown not only ended my career, my athletic ability in general, nullified the 12 years of hard work and sacrifices it took me to get to where I was and pretty much castrated me in the process as well. All so he could make a bit of money.
I made this website to share my story, help others avoid making the same mistakes I made and hoping it reaches a doctor somewhere who would care to help me. As for now however I have not been able to find help and after 8 different consultations in 3 countries (6 out of 8 doctors consulted did not even bother reading my operative report) I have given up.
As you can see on the picture above, I was in elite physical condition as a professional dancer signed to the biggest dance agency in LA. My core was so solid I didn’t believe a doctor could mess me up to the point where I would never be able to condition or flex my core again. I was very wrong.
Following my second surgery in 2020 with Dr. William Brown, owner of sportshernia.com, in Fremont, California, I have lost pretty much all of my abdominal muscle function. I now suffer from:
– Severe core weakness
– Severe core muscle atrophy
– Erectile weakness
– Ejaculatory weakness
– Testicular deformation
– Postural issues
– Pelvic & hip stability issues
– Uneven hips/leg lengths. I keep switching my weight from left to right unable to find a middle ground or any balance. Even just standing in the shower I keep wobbling from one foot to the other like a penguin constantly unstable and uncomfortable.
– Medium to Severe knee pain (from the pelvic/hip instability).
– Gait issues (I have a limp that I do my best to hide)
– Digestive issues. Constant bloating. Constant gas.
– Severe pelvic floor weakness (my pelvic floor no longer moves at all even doing kegel exercises while having an ultrasound there’s no movement).
Below you can find the exact surgery performed on me bilaterally by Dr. brown which led to my situation. It was taken from his website sportsherniatruth.com. You can find the more detailed operative reports in the “My Medical Journey” section of this website.
If you don’t read anything else on this website I want you to know the following things
- You most likely do not have nerve impingement and nerves are not sensory only. Many doctors in this space love to cut nerves because it’s a band-aid treatment that will remove your pain but will not fix the underlying mechanical issues that caused you to injure yourself. This is like cutting the wire powering on the check engine light on in your car. It doesn’t address or fix the reason why the check engine light came on.
- You most likely do not have hip impingement and if you do it’s not the cause of your sports hernia/groin injury. Soft tissues dictate your pelvic & hip alignment/stability not the other way around. Hip impingement surgery will not magically fix your sports hernia injury.
- The vast majority of doctors in this specific field are not doctors they are businessmen. They are not there to help you. They do not understand the mechanisms and complexities of your muscles and how all the different structures in the groin play a vital role in your core health, your body’s stability and your sexual function. What they want is to sell you a procedure at any cost no matter the short or long-term implications/harm. They go to conventions with other doctors to pat each other on the back about doing the bare minimum and figure out how to milk more money out of patients while minimizing their personal liability for the all the harm they cause.
- Your body’s ability to heal itself without cutting into it is far greater you will be led to believe. There are many non-invasive treatments that can assist your body in healing itself (low impact rehab/conditioning, prp injections, steroid injections, sauna, red light therapy, etc.). I know of at least 1 person who healed a direct hernia with a lump/bulging without ever having surgery.
- Any type of surgery involving a reconfiguration of your tissues (cutting flaps, creating new attachments, shortening/lengthening connective tissues/ligaments/tendons) will result in catastrophic dysfunction and disability like what happened to me. This is self-explanatory. You cannot remodel a patient’s muscles/tendons/ligaments/connective tissues, detach them, reattach them in a different configuration, shorten them, lengthen them, release them – without severe and permanent dysfunction. Any doctor claiming otherwise is lying.
- If you find a doctor you like and a procedure you’re considering – do not agree to it until the doctor makes you meet a previous patient that had the exact same surgery. This one is simple. If you are really set on having surgery, you must absolutely demand to meet a previous patient who has had the exact procedure you’re considering and see if they now live with dysfunction.
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