Good day everyone! A 6-year-old child suddenly began to give way in his legs (first one, then both, involuntarily bending at the knee), no pain, no feeling of well-being. Everything is as always, the child is active. According to neurology, everything is fine, there were no injuries
Girls, my nephew was diagnosed with age-related knee disease, when the femur grows quickly, but the knee joints do not keep up. The doctor prescribed only compresses with demexide. Have you ever encountered this? Haven't you heard how you can help your child? They say it will be like this until I'm 16 years old. He’s almost 14 now. I feel sorry for the baby, his legs hurt, he says.
Hello girls, the child has a lump under his knee, in the back, we noticed it recently, it wasn’t there before, it sticks out when he stands up straight, it’s not visible when his leg is bent, it doesn’t hurt, it doesn’t bother him, what kind of nonsense is this? Which doctor should I go to, surgeon? Orthopedist? Who had this?
Squats Take the child in your arms, spread your legs wide and, with a deep breath through your nose, slowly squat so that your knees are bent at almost a right angle. Hold in this position for about a minute and, as you exhale, return back. Take your time. Remember: you exercise, first of all, for your health. Repeat 15-20 times. Forward Head Bends Lie on the floor and bend your knees. The child should position himself so that your hips provide support for his back. As you inhale, lift your head and shoulders.
The night is just brutal. I rushed, tossed and turned. I can't lie down comfortably. Everything hurts. On my back, legs bent at the knees - it’s most comfortable to lie down, but my back hurts (lower) and I can’t sleep like that, I always have nightmares on my back (and today I had a dream about a witch), on my side only if I don’t touch the long pillow between my legs and chest. I can’t do it on my stomach at all, my chest hurts. girls, what is this? I am working tomorrow. To a small child. I have no strength. At all. Today is 8 DPO and 25 DC from.
Or has anyone encountered such symptoms? I don’t know where to go and to whom. A 9-year-old child constantly has headaches and stomach pains, aches in the bones of his legs, in particular his knees and calves (the bones themselves are actively growing now). The neurologist has had these symptoms for 2 months already. there is a treatment. but the ache remains at the end of the week, we’ll go to the gastro. but it seems to me that this is some kind of general bullshit. at school many children suffer from this:(((and my hands are already shaking
Source: https://www.instagram.com/p/BFHpAG9MkBH/ Do them 10 days in a row for a healthy child of ANY AGE: from birth to adolescence and older. You will bring these movements to automatism and remember the norm, then you will be able to diagnose the pathology (read MENINGITIS) before the ambulance arrives: 1. Place the child on a horizontal surface, legs straight, arms along the body. With your hand, try to tilt the baby's head so that his chin reaches the hollow between the collarbones or the sternum. Normally, a child can do this. With meningitis, the head will tilt slightly.
A two-year-old child has periodic cramps in his legs after sitting on the potty or sitting on someone's lap. And then he gets up, can’t stand on his leg, and cries. I usually pick it up, massage the leg and let go for a minute. This doesn't happen very often. But it happens. And almost always the left leg. And another problem with his leg - at night he complains of pain in his knee. He wakes up and cries. After 3 minutes it goes away, I also do a massage. This is what bothers me the most. I started to notice that...
Do this exercise only 1 time every 2 days. Your back will stop hurting immediately. If you suffer from acute pain in your back and neck, have problems with blood pressure and often wake up in your sleep, these exercises are what you need! This complex is made up of the simplest yoga poses for beginners. After the third workout according to this scheme, you will feel how your body has become obedient and your muscles have become stronger. You will sleep better and recover better during sleep, your head will become clearer, and it will become easier to solve everyday problems.
My lower back began to bother me at the end of the first trimester, I was already in the hospital - it hurt unbearably. After 1 session with an osteopath, I started sleeping on a pregnancy pillow, and the pain basically went away. The entire second trimester was fine. But 2 weeks ago I moved, and the new place has a different mattress, cheaper and softer. As a result, the pain returned, despite the pregnancy pillow! There is no money to go to an osteopath again (very expensive), applying ointments in the third trimester is already dangerous for the child.
Girls, I really need your advice. Let me start by saying that I have never experienced problems with pain or heaviness in my legs. During pregnancy, I had to learn what eternally cramped calves in the morning and restless leg syndrome were. But I bravely survived it and after giving birth I completely forgot what it was. Now the child is 4 months old and has been experiencing strange pain in his calves for two weeks now. It all started with minor pain when pressing the muscle above the heel cartilage. At first, everything was attributed to the fact that the child was in her arms.
Before having children, I was an absolutely healthy person! I didn’t even have ARVI. And then after the second child it started happening. I’m all sick, and I’m only 26 years old! My teeth are loose, rheumatoid arthritis appeared from somewhere (the joints of my hands hurt, so I can’t hold a spoon, legs, knees, I can’t climb 12 steps in a worsening situation)
DD, girls, tell me what’s wrong with me, on January 31, in the evening I began to feel a little sick, then I had diarrhea once, I shivered at night, but there was no fever, the nausea remained and began to ache in the knee and elbow joints, the back of my head hurt, then I started to feel pain in the left hypochondrium. In the morning it seemed to be easier, I had no appetite, I drank tea and the pain in the hypochondrium intensified, especially after bending over, nausea and weakness. there was no temperature. By evening it became easier to drink smecta. At night my legs began to burn and I was very thirsty, severe weakness, tempo.
Mommy's dd! I have a question - does it hurt in the nose if you have adenoids? I read information everywhere but nowhere is it written about pain. And they diagnosed our adenoids “by eye” - that is, they didn’t do an x-ray, only based on external signs: night snoring, difficulty breathing without snot, nervousness, poor sleep, frequent acute respiratory infections. But what worries me more is that now there is no longer a flu, there is dry air at my grandmother’s house (for 2 weeks now) and the child does not sleep well at night, rubs his nose, inhales through his nose.
A long-awaited pregnancy brings with it many joys and at the same time problems, questions, and fears. For example, at a doctor’s appointment you can often hear a question that many people ask: “Why do bones hurt during pregnancy?” If you are concerned about the same problem, then, firstly, do not panic, you are not alone - up to a quarter of expectant mothers complain of bone pain during pregnancy. Secondly, let's understand the issue together. If your leg bones hurt during pregnancy, then most likely the problem lies in your growing weight, as well as.
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Girls, help! Maybe someone has encountered such a problem, 3 months after giving birth, the joints in the legs began to ache, both the knees and ankles, at first I didn’t attach any importance, I thought it would go away, although before that I had no idea how much they hurt at all. Then my knees began to creak in a disgusting way. I went to the clinic and they told me to drink calcium. I started taking D3 Nycomed, 2 tablets. per day - the child began to have constipation, reduced the dose to 1 t per day - still pooped badly. Now I take half a tablet.
Ivanov Mark - 8 years old. Saint Petersburg. https://vk.com/pomojem_marku Diagnosis: Closing of growth zones in the legs (femurs and tibias). In one year, Mark suffered from meningoencephalitis with pulmonary edema and hemorrhage in the head. For a long time the child was between life and death. The strongest therapy and the infection itself led to complications in the bones of the lower extremities. In 2013, an operation (application of the Ilizarov apparatus) - osteotomy of the femur and tibia bones was performed at the Turner Orthopedics Institute. After distraction (moving apart the bones), complications arose. Now we need urgent surgery on the leg that was operated on in Turner (the knee joint is ossified) and the right leg needs to be lengthened, otherwise Mark.
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A healthy five-year-old child wakes up at night, cries, complains of pain in his legs, and cannot sleep for a long time. In pediatrics, this alarming childhood symptom is called “growing pains,” and its occurrence is in no way associated with any disease. Leg pain in children is not always associated with injuries and diseases of bones, joints, ligaments and muscles. In most cases, they are caused by physiological processes occurring in the child’s body, which occur especially rapidly during periods of rapid growth and hormonal changes. The symptom is called growing pains.
DON’T TOUCH MY CHILD” - Are Belarusian pregnant women different from Angolan ones? How do they give birth in Africa? — Childbirth rarely takes place in a clinic; in 80% of cases, births are practiced at home. It is cheaper for them to call a doctor than to pay for a clinic. They give birth on their own; there are no men from the time contractions begin. They go beyond the village, into the savannah - they are gone! And only when they hear singing and dancing, they come. So, a child was born. And they also have this: the sun should not set twice on a woman.
We went to a scheduled appointment. Pah-pah everything is fine. The cardiogram is good. Kiryukha is not particularly worried about anything. She said the noises can be heard, but they won’t go away because of the chord threads. Kiryukha is worried about pain in her knee. We found out that it was due to flat feet. His right leg is the most problematic. Crap. and I still can’t get to an orthopedist for free(((okay - I’m waiting for May 29, if they don’t make an appointment again, I’ll go to the manager, probably even swear) They recommended us a massage of the calf muscles, sandals or insoles (is there really no difference.
The child has a sore throat, the pediatrician diagnosed it as catarrhal tonsillitis. The temperature rose once to 38 and was quickly brought down with Nurofen (given at night, because the temperature caused the child to have chills and he would not sleep). We treat tonsillitis. But all weekend the child’s right leg hurt. Under the knee. He didn't lose it while walking. Didn't run, didn't jump. He rode a bicycle, sat down, stood up, crawled on his knees, and said that walking hurt. I couldn't understand whether he was lying or not. And when was the temperature in the morning.
pass me by! I didn't rest at all! I'm just even more tired! I was so looking forward to the weekend! I was hoping to get some sleep and rest! But it was not there! Our dad fell ill again, and again he had a sore throat. On vacation 2 weeks ago, he obviously didn’t finish treating it, without my supervision, and suffered it on his feet. We isolated him in the bedroom, closed the doors, and tried to keep him away from home all Saturday. At 9.30 we left for training, then we all ran errands, and just rode around in the car. We arrived in the evening, I was terribly tired.
Yoga for pregnant women To ensure that your childbirth goes without complications, you must regularly perform basic exercises to stretch the muscles and ligaments of the perineum. Yoga is a special type of very powerful exercise that allows you to develop flexibility in the body and mind. Try yoga if you've never done it before. Give a gift to yourself and your future baby. There is a wide variety of poses in yoga, as you yourself understand. You only need those that will help increase overall flexibility and provide you with healthy muscle tone throughout your pregnancy.
I apologize in advance for the font under the cut, I’m copying from Instagram, I can’t change the font. I would like to tell you about our specialized bicycle for children with cerebral palsy.
source http://slingomamy.livejournal.com/6707011.html As promised, I am posting exercises for our slingospins in a separate post. The reason and reason are in the previous post http://slingomamy.livejournal.com/6698761.html I would like to draw your attention to the fact that the recommendations and exercises were given to me by my attending physician (intervertebral hernia of the lumbar spine) and are not a panacea for all slingomas. In the complex, I will separately indicate adjustments for fulfillment for healthy mothers and mothers with other spinal problems. First of all, let’s immediately assume that we ourselves are to blame for our problems to a much greater extent than we think.
The day before yesterday the child’s leg hurt, he woke up and cried all night, trying to turn around, sat all day, couldn’t be touched, showed the bend of his leg from his butt, didn’t even allow anyone to touch him, somehow got through yesterday, slept well. Today he is already running, limping a little. A couple of times a year or two ago I had such pain in the knee of the same leg, but it was not so severe. What could this be? The surgeon did not see us, tomorrow we will go to the pediatrician
I will remember this month. And not even the first long-awaited vacation after maternity leave, the first part of which I devoted to repairs. Finally, we had some free money and we made suspended ceilings and ordered curtains. I wanted to be in time for Easter with both the repairs and the cleaning. I exhaled, it seemed to work. Let's put everything in its place a little more. But the pace was frantic. If it weren't for my husband, I wouldn't have been able to cope alone. He also has inflammation on his knee; he hurt himself a month ago. With compresses and herbs. Well cabbage helps.
Pinched sciatic nerve during pregnancy Shooting pain, tingling or numbness that starts in the back and radiates to the hips and legs can be signs of sciatica. During pregnancy, sciatica most often develops in the third trimester.
Young mothers often complain of back pain. According to statistics, every second woman in labor experiences discomfort in the lower back, neck and shoulders. The sad thing is that this condition can last from several weeks to 1 year. There are many reasons that cause back pain. These include heavy loads (carrying a baby in your arms every day), displacement of the spinal axis during pregnancy, stretching of the muscles of the back and abdomen, and childbirth itself, which is a great stress for the lower back and sacrum. Back pain is related to the condition of the muscles.
If you have a strong deflection of the spine after childbirth, hurry to eliminate this problem. Over the years, the situation will only get worse. Problems with the spine after childbirth, which are dangerous to leave to chance: As a rule, in pregnant women, lumbar lordosis increases, that is, the deflection in the lower back. If the fetus is very large and the center of gravity is critically shifted, back pain may haunt you for many years.
Why do we continue classes? I mean our gymnastics. Today I was happy for Arin’s teammate. The 2006 girl took 1st place at the Serbian Championship. won 5 gold medals (bp, apparatus, all-around). Her dad is Serbian, so he also performs there. I always root for her, she is very cool. It performs well and looks great. Arina wanted to review several of her performances. We started looking and reached 6 years and earlier. And I thought once again - well, my child doesn’t have it.
While dealing with my own family, as well as after the experience of more than a thousand consultations on this topic, I have piece by piece collected knowledge about how, on a physical level, we can understand that it is time for us to pay attention to at least researching our ancestral history, and at most responsibly take on cleansing kind. KIDNEYS - problems with them that do not have a logical explanation from a medical point of view - this is a signal about a problem in our birth canal - through which we receive the energy and help of our ancestors for our realization. Very.
Almost every one of us experiences similar pains during pregnancy. I'll tell you about my experience and how to help yourself. Today in the maternity hospital they told us for about an hour about what it is and showed us what exercises to do and how to move in general. In general, a lot of useful and interesting things. I can’t, I won’t share it with you girls. I recently raised this topic myself and realized that many of you suffer from the same thing as me. Some more, some less. So, please, under cat.
These are simply amazing exercises!! I like very much!!
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A child's health starts from the feet. The condition of children's feet has a great influence on the development of children's health. With flat feet, the supporting function of the foot is disrupted and reduced, its blood supply deteriorates, causing pain and sometimes cramps in the legs. The foot becomes sweaty, cold, and cyanotic. Pain can occur not only in the foot and calf muscles, but also in the knee joints, as well as in the lumbar region. The flattening of the foot affects the position of the pelvis and spine, which leads to poor posture.
Hello. girls, yesterday my daughter jumped on daddy’s lap and jumped onto the sofa, to be more precise, daddy was lying on the sofa. In general, somehow she jumped and screamed in a voice that was not her own that she was in pain, I was in the kitchen and didn’t even immediately realize that it was she screaming. In general, she was holding her knee, her temperature immediately jumped, we barely calmed her down. can't stand on his leg. Let's go to the emergency room. the doctor touched the whole leg - it didn’t hurt, tugged - it didn’t hurt, but...
That’s what my husband told his child yesterday and in all seriousness. Now they will go shopping without me. In fact, I rarely go out with them anyway. Usually dad himself goes with the child to supermarkets, buys him clothes, shoes, he just sends me photos and I approve or not.. And yesterday I really wanted to go “having a good time” with them, but in the end the trip to the store turned out to be not as rosy as I imagined.
MASSAGE BY THE RULES? Daily massage is simply necessary for the baby. The gentle touch of mother's hands not only gives him pleasure, but also activates the work of the whole organism, the baby develops better. Surely you have already used massage intuitively. If your baby has a tummy ache, you gently place your hands on the sore spot to soothe the discomfort. And when the baby cries, gently stroke his back and head to calm him down. You are on the right track. The main thing is to perform all actions regularly and according to the rules. PLACE AND TIME Usually massage.
A common complaint when visiting a doctor is knee pain. According to statistics, every second patient experiences such pain, especially when walking for a long time. The causes of pathological processes in the knee joints are most often trauma due to a fall from a height plus mechanical shocks. In addition to injuries, there are many factors that generate pain at the junction of bones, so each of us should know everything about: “knee pain when walking - causes and treatment, timely prevention, how to prevent further complications.”
During walking, a whole complex of biomechanical processes comes into play, in which musculoskeletal joints take part under the control of the central nervous system. The movements of the articulatio genus, composed of the femur, tibia and patella, are performed sequentially. That is, when the muscles are tense, the lower limbs bend, straighten, rise up or back, and also when lowering at a certain inclination, they perform a step-by-step movement (forward or backward). Thus, rotational plus rotational movements of the limbs occur.
When lowering the legs, the muscle corset relaxes, and when raising them, the muscles tense - this state of the muscular-ligamentous apparatus during walking is considered classic. If one stage of biomechanics is disrupted and an inflammatory or mechanical obstacle appears, a reactive reaction occurs, that is, the knee hurts when walking, it can also hurt at rest. The pain syndrome has a different nature, duration, localization, it also depends on the depth of damage to the articular structure (muscle + ligament + cartilaginous corset).
The main causes of knee pain when walking:
Important! If acute pain occurs (dorsal part of the knee) during flexion/extension or rotation of the joint, as well as when climbing/descending stairs accompanied by swelling of the knee, you should immediately seek medical help.
Inflammation of the tendons (tendinitis) can lead to complete immobilization of the leg or ankylosis.
Pain syndrome in the knee joints from the dorsal, medial or anterior part when performing various movements (flexion/extension/rotation) with a specific clicking is the result of infectious and inflammatory pathologies, namely:
Arthritis or arthrosis develops after damage to the joint structure (bones, menisci, muscles, knee ligaments, and most importantly after abrasion of the cartilage tissue of the joint). Why does my knee hurt when walking? After abrasion of the cartilage that lines the bones and cushions the joint, pointed osteophytes develop in the exposed area; they lead to limited function, inflammation + pain during functional movements.
When your leg hurts when walking below the knee, this is a reaction inherent in gout. With gout, uric acid is deposited in the joints of the knees, and with rheumatism, antigen-antibodies - these processes lead to arthrosis, pain, plus immobilization of the locomotor organ. Baker's cysts form at the back of the knee and respond painfully to biomechanical movements. The greater its volume, the stronger the pain, and the more difficult it is to move. Poor innervation and blood supply lead to impaired trophism and pain.
Symptoms of knee joint disease, accompanied by pain during walking, depend on the depth of the lesion, on the etiology and pathogenesis, as well as on the degree of destruction and addition of microbial infection. With progressive pathology, the following symptoms are observed:
If the pathology is not of a destructive type, then joint pain is milder; it can be located on the lateral or medial part during flexion-extension movements of the leg, during its rotation or tilt, as well as during squats and walking. The intensity of the pain is in the form of stabbing, cutting; sharp, sudden or aching sensations. Localization of pain: dorsally under the joint on the medial side, in front laterally, above or below the joint of the bones of the knee, as well as inside it during flexion or extension movements.
Medical studies show that degenerative plus dystrophic changes in the periarticular components of the articulatio genus occur under the influence of lumbar osteochondrosis (periarthrosis). The source of pain is the infringement of the roots of the spinal cord nerves, the branch of which innervates the knee. The inflammation is transmitted in a chain, that is, all the nerves are affected up to the ramification responsible for the knee joint. As the disease worsens, pain in the knee joints simultaneously worsens.
Osteochondrosis in the lumbar and sacral region causes acute pain in the ankle joint, which is present both when walking and at rest. A pinched sciatic nerve in destructive diseases of the cartilaginous, bone and tendon joint corset generates so-called stripe pain. They are characteristic of the lumbar region plus the ankle joints. The pain is relieved by applying a tight bandage + realignment of the spinal discs, as well as drug treatment. All manipulations are carried out by a traumatologist in a hospital after instrumental examination (X-ray, MRI or computed tomography of the affected ankle joints). Proper treatment of spinal osteochondrosis will permanently eliminate pain in the knees and lower back.
The success of treatment depends on the depth of damage to the articular structure, plus the involvement of nearby tissues in the disease process, the addition of a microbial infection, the individuality of hormonal levels, general condition, concomitant diseases + immune response. If your knee hurts when walking, treatment should begin immediately after a correctly established diagnosis. Therapy is aimed at radically eliminating the source of infection, relieving pain, eliminating the infectious-inflammatory reaction, as well as restoring metabolism in the joints, the cartilage layer + stimulating the production of synovial fluid.
When the knee hurts when bending and walking, drug therapy consists of:
For the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis, the following is added to this list:
Treatment of gout is aimed at eliminating the main cause – high levels of urea in the blood. Colchicine is the main drug; further treatment is identical to arthritis and arthrosis. Spa treatment is recommended.
The treatment regimen for a meniscus tear is identical to the treatment regimen for arthrosis and arthritis + application of a tight bandage made of a special elastic bandage that fixes the knee. A complete rupture can only be treated surgically (reduction of articular bones, removal of damaged menisci, reconstruction of the cruciate ligament and insertion of artificial menisci). After suffering such an injury and surgery, long walking, exertion and heavy lifting are strictly prohibited.
Bursitis is subjected to puncture of synovial fluid + drug therapy indicated above. Treatment is carried out exclusively in a hospital after a thorough examination.
In parallel with drug therapy, infusions, decoctions and ointments made according to ancient recipes of our ancestors are of great help. They relieve swelling, improve trophism and relieve pain.
At the first signs of pathology or immediately after injury to the knee joints, you need to undergo a full instrumental examination to exclude serious injuries and complications. If you are familiar with the information “knee hurts when walking - causes and treatment,” you do not need to endure pain for a long time with restrictions on the motor function of the lower extremities, but promptly undergo a course of treatment prescribed by a traumatologist, surgeon or rheumatologist.
The knee is the largest joint in the human body. In addition, it is he who very often becomes the subject of increased attention from doctors. The thing is that, according to statistics, every fifth child complains of knee pain. And there can be a great many reasons for this.
However, parents cannot independently determine why exactly this is happening. It is for this reason that you should definitely consult a doctor who, based on examination, tests and questioning, will be able to tell you exactly what was the starting point of pain in the knee joint.
The most common cause of pain is, of course, injury. These may even be completely invisible injuries. For example, during a game, when a child is so engrossed in the process that he simply does not notice how he accidentally bumped his foot on something or fell and hit himself. The damage itself will make itself felt only after a few hours, or even days.
In addition to pain, symptoms of such damage may include swelling and even a hematoma, which will become increasingly larger if the child does not receive the necessary help.
Injuries that can affect the knee include:
In most cases, you simply cannot do without the help of a doctor.
Damage to the knee joint as a result of overload is another common cause of pain in a baby. This can happen during a long climb up the stairs, for example, to the 5th floor - and in five-story buildings, as a rule, there are no elevators, long cycling, when you need to repeat the same action for a long time - pedaling, running long distances if the running technique or if you have flat feet.
All this will soon lead to the child complaining of pain in the knee. However, as a rule, no special treatment is needed. The pain will go away as soon as the load on the joint is reduced or the leg is at rest. In the future, parents should make sure that the child does not overload his legs.
Overload can cause the following conditions:
Many parents believe that the main cause of knee pain is injury, but certainly not infection. However, this is not the case. Infectious processes in a baby’s knee are a fairly common phenomenon. In this case, the microbes themselves get there through the blood or lymph flow from another source of inflammation in the body.
Therefore, you should pay full attention to the complaints of your son or daughter, and not miss such a serious disease as arthritis, which, if not treated in a timely manner, can lead to a large number of various complications.
You should be especially careful if, along with pain, a limitation in the mobility of the joint has appeared, and it has become difficult to bend or straighten. This indicates that the infection has begun to spread, and without timely and correct treatment, it can result in constant periods of inflammation.
Such defects cannot always be identified immediately after the baby is born. Most of them begin to manifest themselves when the baby begins to walk. But parents most often will not be able to identify such problems on their own. To do this you need to take an x-ray.
Most often, lateral curvature of the knee joint is detected here. If such a disease is not treated in a timely manner, the pain will become stronger and stronger over time, and eventually a condition such as arthrosis will develop. It will no longer be possible to cure him.
When the child turns 5–6 years old, it is necessary to undergo surgical treatment.
A child’s knees can also hurt due to blood diseases. This condition occurs especially often with leukemia. In this case, the child may complain of pain in the knee even in a calm state. As the disease progresses, the pain becomes more severe.
Often, pain is accompanied by weakness. That is, the baby may completely stop getting out of bed. Lethargy, lack of appetite, and apathy appear. As a rule, when a child complains of pain in a particular joint, they begin to treat this particular place. But such treatment will be completely useless here. With leukemia or blood cancer, as this disease is often called, it is necessary to treat a completely different organ and completely different methods.
So it turns out that knee pain cannot indicate only one disease. Therefore, if a child begins to complain of knee pain, it is imperative to undergo an examination and find out why this is happening.
Children often complain of knee pain. It may be a sign of a serious illness. After all, besides ARVI and indigestion, there are many other diseases. Therefore, it is important to monitor the manifestation of even the slightest symptoms that worry the child. Because they may be a sign of a more serious illness. Why does my child's knees hurt? This question cannot be answered unequivocally. Since there are a lot of reasons that cause pain in the knee joints.
For most children, knee pain is not a sign of illness. It goes away with age. But inflammatory diseases of the knee joints or systemic arthritis in children still occur. If the disease is detected early and treated consistently, success in therapy is guaranteed.
Sometimes a child may lack the parent's attention. Therefore, when he complains of knee pain, he may need parental involvement. Often children feign pain because they lack parental affection, especially this constantly occurs in preschool age. If this is so, then the pain usually occurs when parents are busy with something and do not pay attention to the child. If he is playing or busy communicating with other children, then the discomfort usually does not bother him.
Your child's knee hurts at night or before bed. This usually affects older preschoolers or teenagers. This is due to the fact that during this period the child grows quickly, and, consequently, his bones also grow. In such cases, the pain affects not only the knee, but also the lower leg. Osgood-Schlatter disease manifests itself with similar symptoms when there is no inflammation in the joint, and after a few months it disappears.
There are various factors that trigger knee pain. We will look at them now:
- Increased activity during the day.
— Intensity of movement, especially during sports activities, can also lead to knee pain. This happens more often in obese children. Because the load on the joints is higher.
- When the knee joints are overloaded, the pain will remain the next day.
— After a fall or injury, a fracture or crack in the knee joint is possible. In this case, the knee swells and swells, the child complains of severe pain, and it becomes impossible to move the leg.
- If the elastic cartilage is displaced or damaged, then mobility will be permanently limited.
— With tumors, osteomyelitis and other joint pathologies, the child’s knees also hurt. Only a doctor can tell you what to do in such cases. In this case, examinations and monitoring may also be required.
The most common reason why a child has knee pain is injury. Moreover, even the simplest one can lead to serious consequences. After all, children's joints and bones are very fragile.
If there is inflammation or damage to the knee joint, the child will also feel pain. This may be the initial stage of arthritis that occurs after a fall or injury. When a baby falls, he may hit a hard surface, and this impact will be enough to cause inflammation or injury to the knee joint. The trigger for arthritis can be an infectious disease such as tonsillitis (tonsillitis).
If a child has red knees and swelling appears in their area, then these are the first manifestations of acute arthritis. Juvenile arthritis can be dangerous because the symptoms of this disease do not appear immediately. Moreover, there may not be obvious inflammation.
It can all start with a child's knee pain when he wakes up in the morning or climbs the stairs. This disease can be diagnosed only after an X-ray examination and blood donation using several types of tests. After this, adequate treatment can be prescribed.
This disease can occur when the immune system is weakened, and its causes are not fully understood. But there is an opinion, however, not confirmed by anything, that the development of the disease can be provoked by preventive vaccinations.
If the developmental pathologies of the joints are congenital, then the pain in them when moving can become constant. When the ligamentous apparatus develops slowly, it interferes with walking, and the child’s knee hurts constantly. Therefore, you need to consult a traumatologist and surgeon. Also, the cause of pain can be neuritis, that is, when a nerve is pinched or inflamed. If this happens, then you need to contact a neurologist.
How to treat knee pain? More experienced parents who have gone through this know that rubbing with a warming ointment will help relieve nighttime complaints of knee pain. For example, “Asterisk” or “Doctor Mom” would be suitable. You can also massage with warm hands. This will bring relief and help the child fall asleep peacefully.
A fall or blow can cause a ligament to rupture or sprain, which will be characterized by pain. How to treat knees after such incidents? The knee is fixed with an elastic bandage. You also need to go to the emergency room for advice from a traumatologist.
How to treat knee pain? When a teenager is physically active, pain under the knee can begin unexpectedly and for no reason. This may be a manifestation of Osgood-Schlatter disease; a little massage will help.
If a child has pain in the knee, and, among other things, there is swelling, redness, and high temperature, this indicates that this is how inflammation manifests itself, and you should definitely visit a doctor.
Treatment of acute arthritis should begin immediately. Usually medications are prescribed that will relieve inflammation, and compresses with Dimexide. The child needs rest, vitamins and fluids. The joint must be monitored. Any manifestations of arthritis should also be recorded.
To determine why a child has knee pain, you need to know how the joint itself works. Between the top and bottom bones of the knee are two discs (meniscus). They share these bones. Ligaments, tendons and muscles hold the bones of the thigh and leg together. And cartilage tissue covers the surfaces of the bones inside the knee joint. It is necessary to absorb shock and provide a sliding surface so that there is no pain when moving.
So why might a child’s knee hurt? Due to injury or infection spreading to the area. But a sprained ligament can heal without medical intervention after a certain period of time.
Knee structures (cartilage, tendons, periarticular bursae) may be damaged. And this will cause knee pain. Also, such discomfort will be present if various knee structures are damaged.
Often, in order to solve their problems, parents do not pay attention to the child’s complaints, which can lead to such a dangerous disease as chronic arthritis. It can cause damage to the joints, heart, eyes and lungs. Therefore, promptly visiting a doctor will not only cure the child, but also save his life.
Today, a disease such as arthrosis is often detected at the age of 20, and osteochondrosis at 30. Therefore, any complaints from a child can frighten parents even more. Especially if there are no apparent reasons for them.
So why might knee pain occur? If there was a long walk or very intense physical exercise, then there may have been excessive stress on the body, in particular on the joints. Wrap an elastic bandage around the area where the pain appears.
If such symptoms recur, you need to carefully select the load for the child. In this case, all factors should be taken into account: excess weight, flat feet, etc.
How to treat knees with trauma and deformation of joints and ligaments? First, you need to visit a traumatologist, who, after X-ray diagnostics, will determine the severity of the damage to the knee joint. Before this, you need to fix your leg so that it bears as little load as possible.
Now you know for what reasons a child may have pain in the knee area. As you may have noticed, these can also be serious illnesses. Therefore, at the first complaints of the baby, it is better to take him to the doctor and carry out a diagnosis in order to exclude the presence of serious pathologies. After all, at the initial stage it is easier to cure a particular disease.
An ordinary child who is almost constantly on the move may have knee pain. The knee joint is very easy to damage. There are many different types of joint pain. But, if we are talking about children, then we can name a certain list of reasons that provoke the appearance of pain.
If a child has knee pain, it means something is wrong with the joint. Possible dislocation or inflammation of the cartilage tissue. Let's look at some of the most common factors that cause pain in the knee joint area.
Since children, due to their age and lifestyle, are very mobile, the very first cause of pain under the knee may be an injury to it. Injuries can also be of different types - these can be dislocations, fractures, torn ligaments, sprains, and other injuries. But this applies more to the consequences of injury to the knee joint.
It is also interesting that children and parents cannot always immediately answer the question of whether the knee was injured, since the former may be carried away by games, and the latter cannot monitor every movement of their son or daughter.
Moreover, it often happens that the pain begins to bother you after some time, even after a few days. Therefore, doctors often send them for an X-ray to exclude or confirm a fracture or other injuries.
Children’s complaints about joint pain cannot be ignored, especially if this was not preceded by injury.
In childhood, overloading the knee joint can also cause pain. There can be a lot of prerequisites, these include long running, climbing stairs, cycling and other factors. It is very difficult for children to understand on their own that overloading a joint is fraught with consequences that they will have to endure.
There is no cure for overload; doctors may suggest putting less strain on the knee joint. It takes time for the pain to go away. In this case, parents can take pity on the child, not strain him too much, and anoint him with sportsman ointment or similar means.
Infectious diseases can cause pain in the knee joint. This is one of the most dangerous causes that need to be identified in a timely manner, and then begin to eliminate it.
Symptoms of infection may include limited movement; if you notice that the child is moving his knee less and less or that movement causes severe pain, you can call an ambulance.
The later you contact a specialist, the more serious the consequences may be. Children can even develop arthritis, and in the future this disease will bring them many different kinds of complications.
There are some congenital malformations of the fetus that are difficult to detect after birth or in the first months of a child’s life. They will begin to appear when the baby begins to walk independently. In most cases, such developmental defects cannot be determined independently; this should be done by specialists.
The main thing is to understand and seek help in time. Sometimes five-year-old children can undergo surgery to eliminate the causes of pain and return them to a healthy life.
Some blood diseases can also cause pain under the knee. These include leukemia. Children can have knee pain even at night. A symptom of this disease can be pain in the knee joint, which gets worse over time. It may even be that the child stops getting out of bed, complaining of pain.
Parents begin to independently treat the knee with all possible methods and ointments, but this will not bring relief, and will only waste precious time that could be spent on treatment.
You can understand why your knee hurts by talking to your child and finding out if he fell or hit himself today? If a child’s knee hurts day and night, and the parents cannot determine the cause, it is necessary to seek help from a doctor. A traumatologist or orthopedist will help determine the causes, prescribe adequate treatment or preventive measures.
However, emergency assistance can be provided by parents:
After a consultation, the doctor will make a preliminary diagnosis. To confirm it, you will need to take an x-ray and take a blood test. After this, it is possible to diagnose the causes with high accuracy, based on which preventive measures or treatment are prescribed, up to surgical intervention.
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pain under the knee in a child, what is the nature of its origin. You will learn how you can relieve your child's knee pain.
The knee joint is the largest joint in the human body. During the period of children's growth, he experiences serious stress, because this time is associated with active movements. Therefore, if suddenly a child begins to complain of pain in the knee area, then this should cause concern among parents about his condition.
Another important reason is overload, associated, for example, with the child’s excessive weight, or resulting from the development of the kneecap, deviating from the norm, or pressure on it.
Pain under the knee in a child can be caused by injuries of various origins: dislocations, sprains of tendons and ligaments, torn ligaments and menisci, displacement of the knee joint, fractures, cracking of the kneecap or its displacement.
The most common causes of such injuries are active sports, falls, and strong impacts.
In addition to pain caused by mechanical effects on the knees, there can be a lot of other reasons: compression or inflammation of the nerve, infection getting deep into the skin, bones, joints, congenital defects of the knee joint.
If your child has pain behind the knee, you can try to relieve it, but this does not mean you should not see a doctor. Anesthetic ointments provide a warming effect, thereby reducing pain. To increase heat generation, the area where the ointment is applied is covered with polyethylene and wrapped. You should not get carried away with such a procedure - burns are possible.
If there is no swelling at the site of pain, warming with a heating pad is allowed. Typically, this method is used before active training, after which the knees should rest. To do this, you need to hold your legs in an elevated position for 20-25 minutes.
All these methods are good only for temporarily reducing pain. In any case, only a specialist practicing in this field can prescribe the correct treatment.
If your child complains of pain in his legs, the first thing you need to do is talk to your child. In a conversation, find out from him:
If the cause of the unpleasant sensation is not an injury, then you need to show it to a pediatrician, who, after an examination, will try to find out the source of the pain.
Age-related changes . The fact is that before puberty, the baby’s body increases due to the growth of his legs. The ankle joint takes the most active part in this process. Accordingly, in these areas there is differentiation of tissues that require active blood flow. Wide vessels, which are responsible for feeding the musculoskeletal system, are able to supply tissues with blood. But during the period when the child is actively growing, they contain a minimal amount of elastic fibers. During night rest, vascular tone decreases and the intensity of blood flow decreases. These are the reasons why the child feels pain at night. Probably, many of you have noticed that when your baby complains of pain at night, it is enough to massage his legs and the whining gradually subsides. The fact is that under the influence of massage, blood flow to the muscles and feet increases.
Orthopedic pathology . Scoliosis. poor posture and flat feet cause a shift in the center of gravity of the body. Constant increased pressure can cause pain in the ankle and hip joint over time.
Cardiopsychoneurosis . If the pain in the legs at night is accompanied by severe headaches, the baby does not sleep well, it is difficult for him to breathe, then the reasons for this may be a dysfunction of the cardiovascular system and respiratory organs. In this case, be sure to show the child to specialists who, after examination, will prescribe adequate treatment.
Congenital pathologies of the cardiovascular system . If a child has a congenital pathology of the heart and blood vessels, then pain in the legs occurs due to poor blood supply. The child complains of pain not only at night, but also during the day. His gait is impaired, he may stumble when walking and constantly feel discomfort.
Arthritis. But if a child’s knees hurt, then parents need to be wary. In most cases, aching in the knee is a signal that may indicate the onset of a degenerative or inflammatory process in the joint. The onset of arthritis can be a stroke. The fact is that children in adolescence often fall and can injure the knee joint. But not only injury, but also sore throat and any other bacterial disease can lead to the development of arthritis. Acute arthritis is accompanied by swelling, tenderness and redness that becomes visible.
This disease affects:
Therefore, timely and adequate treatment will prevent complications.
Any sign of inflammation requires immediate contact with specialists:
The doctor will prescribe anti-inflammatory drugs, pain-relieving ointments, vitamins and compresses. Physical therapy is also recommended, the exercises of which are aimed at restoring the knee joint. If the doctor has identified more serious causes of knee pain, surgery may be prescribed. The recovery period after treatment includes sanatorium treatment.
As you can see, the reasons that cause aching in the legs are very different. But all the same, you need to show your child to a doctor in order to correctly find out why the pain occurs, how to avoid complications and what to be careful about.
Emergency care for knee pain Aching in the knee area in children is rare, but does occur. Most often, the cause of pain is an injury that goes away quickly. What should parents do if their child complains of aching in the knee? If the whining persists for more than 2 days, the movement of the knee joint is limited, the skin around the knee feels hot to the touch and the body temperature rises, then the child needs emergency help. Take your child to a pediatrician who, after examination, will find out the source of the pain and refer him for consultation to specialists:
Depending on the source of pain, appropriate treatment will be prescribed. But in the first stages of the examination, the child will need to undergo:
Any individual case requires a clear determination of the location of the pain. The broad concept of pain in the lower extremities includes a number of diseases that are characterized by different symptoms, as well as different causes. When aching appears in the joints in the morning, they may indicate the development of leukemia. If a child has swelling of the joint, then a systemic disease or infection cannot be ruled out.