Samantha has been complaining about pain in her heel for a few weeks – really since basketball season started. When I noticed she was walking on her toes all the time I decided it was finally time to do something about it! I took her up to see the same pediatric orthopedist that I had taken Spencer to when he was having foot pain.
He diagnosed it as Sever’s disease which is inflammation at growth plate in the heel in growing children. Basically she hit a growth spurt, is super active, and made the area around that growth plate mad. She will grow out of it eventually but will just have to manage the pain with rest, ice, stretching and heel gel inserts. I hate for her to be in pain but glad it’s not something more serious. If it doesn’t get better over the next few weeks we might have to consider a boot!
She did get her first x-ray which she thought was pretty cool!
Because of that x-ray we learned she’s special like Spencer! They both have an extra bone in their foot! Spencer has an accessory navicular bone while Samantha has an os trigonum which is an extra bone behind the ankle bone. I always knew they were special!! Wonder if Maxwell has one too? He’s pretty special as well.
We made it back to school just in time to have lunch with her friends.
Hoping we can get that inflammation down quickly. This girl is too active to to have to slow down!
So glad you took her to doctor! Don’t like her being in pain! She’s too special for that!
Always helps just to know what’s causing the issue. Here’s to a quick recovery!
Glad to know it’s not serious.