To every patient who has been told their hernia is “too small” or “doesn’t count” 👇

Your symptoms are real.

Your imaging findings matter.

Find a specialist who sees the full picture.

You deserve answers. 💙

That is exactly why I built my Master Course: Groin & Pelvic Hernias 🎓

So surgeons and physicians can learn to interpret these findings correctly and actually HELP their patients.

I invite you to look at the course topics:

And I want to be gentle here 💙

Most of this comes from a lack of exposure to a very specific and nuanced field.

Subtle groin and pelvic hernia diagnosis is simply not taught deeply enough in medical training.

That is a gap we need to close. Together. 🤝

📌 When history, exam, AND imaging all point in the same direction?

That is not a coincidence. That is a diagnosis. 🔍

Connect. The. Dots.

📌 A small hernia is not an insignificant hernia.

Size does not determine symptoms.

A tiny hernia in the wrong location can cause debilitating, life-altering pain. 🙅🏻‍♀️

Let me set the record straight. 👇

📌 A hernia does NOT need to contain bowel or a peritoneal sac to be real, significant, or painful.

📌 Pre-peritoneal fat in a hernia defect absolutely counts.

This is not controversial.

This is anatomy. 🫀

Nope.

Instead the patient hears:

❌ “The hernia is too small to cause symptoms.”
❌ “There’s no bowel involved so it’s not significant.”
❌ “There’s only fat in the hernia — that doesn’t count.”

And just like that. Dismissed. Again. 💔