realskiers

I know, it's just the word groin that I was playin on. 

The picture is interesting.  How many days post event was that.  FWIW, I've seen hamstring pulls (I think thats actually a tear, not a strain) that had more bruising and darker bruising than that, but it took several days for the bruising to make it to the surface.  But I've never heard of anyone not getting dramatically better from a strain or even a tear from rest.  That's the frustrating part.

However, I've also seen some nastier surface bruises from guys getting hit by baseballs that show up pretty quickly.  Depending on how hard you hit that tree (I remember the bark stains) that could be surface bruising and something else was underneath.  I, obviously, don't know. 

I didn't go back in the thread, but didn't Perry say that if they didn't find anything in the groin then he would recommend looking higher in the back where that muscle attaches?