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Osgood-Schlatter disease/syndrome

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does anyone know of anyone that has/had Osgood-Schlatter disease?
How did they deal with it ?My Gf's kid who is 6ft at age 14 just got diagnosed with it. He started complaining about a bump under his knee being sore , after inspection the bump didn't look right so head off to the docs and got told it was Osgood-Schlatter disease/syndrome. Which means no sport or atleast sport that involves running or jumping

The doctor we saw was crap , told us to read up about it on the net . so after some reading need to strengten the quadricep and hamstrings , but not alound to do too much bending to the knee
 
nah not life threatening , Osgood-Schlatter (say: "oz-good shlot-ter") disease is one of the most common causes of knee pain in young athletes. It causes swelling, pain and tenderness just below the knee, over the shin bone (also called the tibia). Osgood-Schlatter commonly affects boys who are having a growth spurt during their pre-teen or teenage years. One or both knees may be affected.
this isn't his xray but it looks quite similar
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I got it bad through growth spurts through my teens. My brother also gets it now. The doctor told me pressure bandages are all you can do. In heinsight huge doses of fishoil would have helped as it's heavan on the joints now. It does stop when you stop growing though..
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I had it hardcore as a teen, was on pain killers for ages 14-16. I'm 23 this year, and whilst day to day pain is gone, god help me if somebody even breathes on it. Normal squating I can deal with, bit I'm in agony when I hit the 20 reppers.
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thanks guys , the kids isn't too happy , he just started football training (under 14's) and now got told that he can't play football otherwise it will do more damage resulting in having to have an operation
 
thanks guys , the kids isn't too happy , he just started football training (under 14's) and now got told that he can't play football otherwise it will do more damage resulting in having to have an operation
That's a shame. What other sports can he play instead?
 
any sport that doesn't require running or jumping or excessive movement of the knee

going to take him swimming a nights a week , and was thinking a cardio boxing session
,so that he keeps the fitness level up
 
That sucks!A fourteen year old who can`t play sport ,especially a six footer who could be an incredible athlete.
As it is a bump is surgery to remove it an option?Sure it may lay him up for a year or two but it it were me it would be better than the alternative.
 
The doc said that rest for a few months should fix it up , if he doesn't rest it they will have to plaster it up so that he can't use the leg
operation is a last resort
 
I'm not sure how many were bullshitting but I remember quite a few kids I went to school with had that. I had the bump and the pain but don't remember if I bothered going to the dr about it. We all played basketball in summer and most of the year at school so there was plenty of running and jumping.

I don't remember anyone sitting out because of it though, just a lot of sore knees and the coaches asking if we should be playing. Better to listen to the dr I guess rather than agrivate (man i spelled that 15 ways and the spell check gave me no love) the problem. It's a shame it rules out all the contact sports, they're the most fun.
 
I've had it in both my knees, so has my little brother, i squat, deadlift, jerk, sprint etc. etc. with very little pain since i started lifting weights, dont know why though.
 
This is interesting about the no sport rest idea. I was just reading about o-s in clinical sports medicine where it suggests that you should self limit to what you would like and that rest has not been shown to increase healing time and in fact exercise is not detrimental besides tolerating the pain. Did you see a specialist or the local GP?
 
I saw a physio for 6 months for my tendonitus and o-g-s, pissed away shitloads of money, so i started lifting and wallah, no more pain.
 
saw a local gp , the bump has gone done a fair bit over the last few weeks so hopefully will be ready for the first game of football
 
I got told by a Doc i had that when i was 14 or somewhere around that age. The Doc didnt mention anything about not playing sports, it eventually dissapeared anyway, didnt really pay that much notice to it.

Surgery !!! LoL, Doc is mad.
 
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The GP sounds like he doesn't know much about the condition or has not read up on it in the last 10 years.
 
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