When a child complains of heel pain, it is often thought to be growing pains, a normal phenomenon during childhood and adolescent growth spurts. Growing pains are a simple way of describing mild and short-lived pain, usually in the legs where a muscle attaches to a bone. During growth spur...
School-age children, who are not going through the rapid, unsettling growth spurts of early childhood oradolescence, are quite skilled at controlling their bodies and are generally good at a wide variety of physical activities, although the ability varies according to the level of maturation and ...
and while children adjust to their new center of gravity, they lose coordination and control over their body movements. Researchers at theBMCfound that “Boys who had growth spurts, defined as a height increase greater than 3cm in the three month period, ...
Both male and female teens may be at risk for anemia due to growth spurts. If a teen is experiencing fatigue, a health screening for iron-deficiency and other diseases is warranted. Severe low iron may predispose a teen to a higher risk of injuries and certain infections. If a severe lack...
He sternly rebuked them for not working and wasting time on such an important endeavor. When they tried to tell him that is the way science works, he insisted they work in the military way. My point is that science works in slow uneven spurts not in linear fashion. Seth Borenstein in ...