Growing Leg Pain In Children

Growing pains are cramping or aching pains in limbs usually occurring in kids age between 3 to 12 years.

Causes-

∙ Increased physical activity can lead to overuse of your child’ s muscles, which can cause pain.

∙ Some studies show that children with growing pains have a lower pain threshold. These children are more likely to

have headaches and abdominal pain as well.

∙ Many children with growing pains have very flexible joints (hypermobility) and have flat feet. Being hypermobile can cause growing pains.

∙ Studies found that children with growing pains have less bone strength due to low vitamin D levels.

Symptoms and signs-

∙ Pain occurs mostly in a child’ s legs (shins, calves, thighs or behind their knees) and affect both sides of their body.

∙ Night pains

∙ No pain or stiffness in morning

∙ Pain will often occur on days of increased physical activity. ∙ Deep cramping or aching pain. The degree of pain can be mild or very severe.

∙ Some children feel growing pains for a couple of minutes and others feel the pains for several hours.

∙ Growing pains may be intermittent, with pain-free intervals from days to months. In some children, the pain can occur daily.

1. Calcarea Phos – Leg pains with numbness and crawling sensation and tendency to perspiration.

2. Rhus Tox – Pains after overuse of muscles.

3. Magnesium Phos – When pain is better by pressure

4. Calcarea Carb – For pains in back of leg in calf muscles with sour foot sweat and weakness of extremities

5. Silicea – When legs feel cold and weak along with Pain. Weakness of bones due to defective assimilation of nutrients.

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