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Title: Children's Heel Pain Common Causes & Adolescents: Sever’s Disease


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Children's Heel Pain Common Causes Adolescents
Severs Disease
  • - Specialty Care Clinics

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Severs Disease Causing Heel Pain
  • Growing children and adolescents complain about
    heel pain. Parents usually ignore it thinking it
    is due to the high activity of the child. But,
    this can be due to Severs Disease, also known as
    calcaneal apophysitis.
  • Sever's disease is a typical heel injury that
    occurs in youngsters. It is excruciating and
    caused by swelling of the growth plate in the
    heel. Kids can harm this growth plate through
    average weight-bearing action (movement performed
    while standing).
  • This is usually common among kids and adolescents
    actively participating in athletics especially
    running and jumping sports. These activities
    increase the risk of injury if not played with
    care. But, sometimes less active adolescents may
    also encounter Severs Disease, especially if
    they wear very flat shoes.

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How do you get Severs Disease?
  • Kids usually develop Sever's disease during a
    growth spurt, when the muscles, tendons, bones,
    and ligaments develop rapidly. These bones and
    soft tissues develop and shift causing them to be
    weak against injury.
  • Children and adolescents enjoy running and
    jumping which puts stress on the Achilles
    ligament. These are the intense band of tissue
    connecting the lower leg muscle to the heel bone.
    This repeated stress results in swelling and pain
    in the growth plate where the Achilles ligament
    attaches to the rear of the heel. As kids age and
    the growth plate becomes solid bone, the heel and
    tendons can withstand more power.

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  • Signs and Symptoms of Severs Disease
  • The symptoms of Sever's disease are similar to
    those of plantar fasciitis or shin splints, yet
    the conditions aren't connected. Symptoms of
    Sever's disease include
  • Pain in one heel or both heels (most kids report
    torment in the two heels).
  • Tenderness and pain worsen with activities
    (especially bouncing and running on hard
    surfaces) and improve with rest.
  • Redness, swelling, and irritation in the heels.
  • Stiffness in the feet when first waking up.
  • Limping, or walking on tiptoes.
  • Pain when the heel is squeezed on both sides.
  • Foot Discomfort.
  • Sever's disease can last until your kid is
    completely developed. When the growth plates
    close, the condition resolves itself.
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  • Contact No. 469-545-9983
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