You have a lower abdominal strain and it becomes chronic, to the point where you start to have groin pains, ... At some point in that whole process, you treat the abdominal strain, until you decide it has become chronic and then you can classify it as a sports hernia.
Everybody has agreed that it is now at the point where it can be classified as a sports hernia. It's a condition where you have a lower abdominal strain, and the lower abdominal strain becomes chronic to the point where you start to have groin pain.
That's probably not a great term because there is no hernia. It's a condition where you have a lower abdominal strain and it becomes chronic, to a point where you start to have groin pains.