Question: My son was diagnosed with pubic osteitis last year.
He rested the injury for 3 weeks but the issue seemed to come and go for months.
The only thing I believe helped heal him was a strengthening program for his weaker core muscles and increasing flexibility,
After 3 weeks of strengthening his symptoms went away.
Looking back I’m not sure he was correctly diagnosed. He never was given an MRI, and his pain level never matched that of what he was supposed to be feeling. He always had an absence of pain except sometimes when playing and he referred to what he felt as more of a tightness.

Anyway, my question is - he felt a similar but faint tightness during his last game. Is this likely more muscular and maybe more like tendinitis?
I ask this because I see a similar pattern with his jumpers knee ( patellar tendinitis) that he’s dealt with off and on.
And like most teens, he stops doing his strengthening exercises once he feels good.
He tells me he doesn’t feel a doctors visit is necessary.
And after going to specialists for several months, I’m not so sure he’s totally wrong.
He said discomfort was around a 1 on pain scale.
No redness, warmth, bruising or swelling in the area.
He feels nothing in his day to day activities.
I can’t recreate the pain with resisted sit ups or leg lifts(stuff doc did in office last year).
He also said the tightness felt less deep, which I’m guessing he means more superficial, which maybe isn’t really the same thing.
What are your thoughts.