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Heel Pain in Children
Don’t let foot pain stop your child’s active life Activity is extremely important to the health and wellbeing of our children. Physical activity builds strong bones, develops coordination, boosts confidence, and establishes lifelong healthy habits. However, foot pain can quickly derail a child’s participation in sports and activities they love. The good news is that…
Read MoreChildren’s Heel Pain (Sever’s Disease)
What is Sever’s Disease? This condition affects growing bone in the heel and is called Sever’s Disease. Severs often affects physically active children within the age range of around 8-14 years. Severs is one of a group of disorders known as “Osteochondroses”. At around 8 years of age the secondary growth plate in the heel…
Read MoreChildren’s Heel Pain vs Screen Time
Being a parent, I know how it feels to be constantly battling to keep your kids off screens. With young people, the idea of trying to keep them as active as possible, is really exciting for parents, and important for their general health, both physical and mental. So when they develop an injury, and they’re…
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