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Osgood Schlatter Disease Report
Outlook
Osgood-Schlatter disease has no life threatening capacity or poses any danger to the person who has it other than minor amounts of pain when contact is made with the affected area
It goes away on its own, so until then, it's only a minor inconvenience
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Treatment
- Osgood-Schlatter usually heals itself and goes away after the person has finished growing
- Most common is RICE: Rest, Ice, Compression, Elevation
- Anti-inflammatory drugs may help (Tylenol, Advil, Motrin)
- Knee may need to be immobilized if extreme pain is felt
- Knee braces, sleeves or wraps are also common
-Neoprene vs. Drytex: Neoprene is thicker and has more compression while Drytex is lighter and more breathable
- In rare cases surgery may be needed if bone fragments became detached and never healed
- Stretching is reccomended to relieve tightness
- Groups of doctors have reported good results using Zinc (15 mg), Manganese (5-10 mg), and Vitamin B6 (25 mg)
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This is a diagram of a knee with Osgood-Schlatter condition. You can see the patellar tendon stretched over the patella and the bump in the lower part of the knee. The patellar tendon is stretched and worked when the quadriceps femoral tendon is flexed, resulting in an overuse condition
Causes
OSGOOD-SCHLATTER DISEASE
- Repeated small injuries and overuse before the area has stopped growing
- When muscles around this area are overworked before the region has finished growing they can become inflammed and irritated
- This occurs most often through heavy physical activity or in sports that invovle running, jumping, or changing direction
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Symptoms
- Very few symptoms
- Main symptom is a painful swelling or a bump on the shinbone that can be senstive to pressure or contact
- Experience pain when running, jumping, climbing stairs, or changing direction quickly
HISTORY
Discovered in 1903 by Dr. Robert Osgood and Carl Schlatteer
Description
- OS is a condition involving inflammation and sometimes
tearing of ligamets within the knee or lower leg
- It is an overuse condition
- Caused by chronic irritation of the quadriceps muscle
- OS can be characterized by tiny microfractures in the bone
- Also associated with avulsion injuries - tendon is stretched and teared from the bone
Statistics
- In a Finnish study, it was found that OS affects 13% of teens
- OS affects 20% of adolescents who play sports
-only 5% who are not athletic develop it
- Every year in the US, 2 million boys and girls contract this condition
- 25 Million teens are in the susceptible age group in America
- In an MRI study of 20 patients who had Osgood-Schlatter it was found that "patellar tendon was found to attach more proximally and in a broader area to the tibia"