Essay On Severs Disease

For my one day project I had severs disease it is also known as calcaneal apophysitis. Severs disease is when you have inflammation of the growth plate. Severs commonly occurs in people ranging in ages eight to fourteen. The reason that or commonly occurs in ages eight to fourteen is that the calcaneus is still developing. One of the main reasons that people get severs is because of too much repetitive stress on the growth plate. Severs does not half to be on both feet it can only be on one foot. The pain with severs is different than the pain that most adults get in their heels. When you have severs walking usually makes the pain worse and the movement of the growth plate. Severs disease is normally caused by over stressing the heel bone. The growth plate is sensitive to
A treatment by the surgeon may be selected one or more of the following activities to teat calcaneal apophysitis is immobilization, physical therapy, medication nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), support the heel, and reduced activity. Some people don’t know what severs is. Severs is when the growth plate on your heel is inflamed. It occurs by overusing the foot and the heel. Severs is diagnosed by tenderness over the bottom part of the heel .Calcaneal apophysitis can be treated by activities that don’t bother the heel and rest. Another way would be making sure that the child’s shoes have good supporting them. When the child has felt no pain for at least three to four days they can return to the activity as safely as possible. Some ways to prevent them from getting it is having shoes the fit properly. The portion of the heel should be padded and supportive. You also might have to put extra pads in the shoe for support reasons. The male athletes have a higher risk of getting it rather than the female athletes. But more girls end up this it rather than guys because of them playing soccer basketball and