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Flyers' top pick Nolan Patrick among many athletes under noted surgeon William Meyers' care

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Flyers fans learned last season what Eagles fans had learned the year before, what many athletes have learned before then and what Dr. William Meyers has learned since first cutting into a cadaver at Duke University more than three decades ago.

No two sports hernias are alike. In fact, the very term is what often leads down the path of recurrent trouble, said the surgeon who estimates he has evaluated over 15,000 core muscle injuries since 2001.

“I don’t want to trash any of my colleagues,’’ Meyers, now 68, was saying recently in his office at the Navy Yard-based Vincera Institute.