Posted on 06/22/2017 1:13:21 PM PDT by pajama pundit
During a soccer game early last year, Tiffany Lin began experiencing a sharp pain in her right knee.
Then a freshman at Manhattan’s Beacon School, Lin tried to play through the pain but sought out a doctor when it wouldn’t subside.
The diagnosis? She had Osgood-Schlatter disease, which is the inflammation of the area just below the knee. It mostly occurs during growth spurts and is exacerbated by continuous pounding of the knees that happens during sports such as soccer and running.
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Rush’s parody Keep Our Own Kids Safe (KOOK) routine comes to mind.
Bump!
I still have trouble with them not counting practice pitches between innings as part of the pitch count.
It's a repetitive motion, regardless of effort.
I was diagnosed with Osgood-Schlatter disease at 12 or 13. At 17, woke up one day after a school dance, and couldn’t bend the knee.
A bone chip got pulled out into the joint for about a week.
Had to have it surgically removed. The roughly 4-6 week recovery was worse than the few days in the hospital.
I’ve heard that youth sports has gotten more intense, in that, there is pressure at younger ages to specialize in a particular sport, or playing a particular position.
It sounds like some of your players were just playing too much, if they were on your team, plus other teams as well.
I have this, got it in high school track. It varies in intesity and severity. Some people just get a bump growth under the knee and running hurts for awhile. Some have a more serious issue dvlop.
I used to play basketball nearly everyday for years on concrete playgrounds. I do have backpain but probably because I still played into my late 30’s. It all seems overblown to me.
fear of the sun / spending to much time inside is causing this and many other kids issues.
Kids bones are not as strong as they used to be because they are not getting enough sun to produce the Vitamin D needed to build strong bones.
Next time you see a large group of kids lined up with shorts or short skirts on..... look at their legs... nearly 70+ of them will have at least slightly knocked knees.
THAT was not the case when I was a kid!
And kids todays break there bones constantly. Nearly every kid in my kids school has broken at least one bone.
Heck I could count on one hand the total number of kids I knew growing up that every broke a bone, and I went to a school with 1,000’s of kids.
I also had it at 12-13. A lot of kids in the neighborhood had it. Of of my coaches sent many of us to the same Brooklyn Orthopedist. All of us had Osgood Schlatters and all of us had one thing in common. We all played multiple sports in the city parks, which were concrete.
Next season we moved the touch football, basketball, baseball programs to better facilities. Touch football became tackle on the high school field and fast pitch softball became hardball on the same field. Basketball moved into the gym.
Don’t you think it is possible that some people are more susceptible to certain types of injuries rather than that it’s just overblown? You are one of the lucky ones perhaps.
I consider myself one of the lucky ones, as I have had no major medical issues so far — thank God!
Football and hockey either are,or are not,connected with serious brain injuries.Various sports either do,or do not,cause the problems described in this piece.
There are issues for physicians and surgeons to evaluate,not Rush.
Checked it out i=on the Mayo Clinic website.It’s a real disease that’s capable of causing real pain in kids who are active in certain sports...although they say it rarely becomes something that’s long lasting.
Precisely the reason I wouldn’t let my daughter play any club sport except in summer
Amen to that. And all the pitches thrown during practice during the week
My brother told of coaching a Little League kid to pitch, only to see him in ’teen years on a team that had a star pitcher who was always given the ball.His coach didn’t even know Butch could pitch, he was their first baseman. Coach ran into the buzz saw of allowable use of his star at one point - and on game day he had to ask for a volunteer to pitch. Butch volunteered, and pitched a shutout. And was permanently relegated back to first base . . .
I was offered rides to school on the 'tart cart' but refused and instead limped to school and back each day. My stay at home Mom never thought about driving me to school that was't done then.
I know a guy whose son played multiple high school sports. He was constantly breaking bones, even his pelvis...twice.
I warned my friend that his son never had time to heal between injuries and sports.
It was insane. I’ll bet by the time this kid hits 30, he’ll be almost invalid.
That can be fixed by drinking lots of milk and vitamin D/calcium OJ. Courting skin cancer isn't necessary.
Yep, my son had it as diagnosed by a specialist. It is real. My son was playing soccer at a pretty high level and kids now play year-round with indoor soccer during the entire winter. A lot of stress on knees and joints at that age with that intensity.
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