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| Sever's Disease |
Although the name might sound pretty frightening, Sever's disease is
really a common heel injury that occurs in kids. It can be painful, but
is only temporary and has no long-term effects.
About Sever's Disease
Sever's disease, also called calcaneal apophysitis, is a painful bone
disorder that results from inflammation (swelling) of the growth plate
in the heel. A growth plate, also called an epiphyseal plate, is an area
at the end of a developing bone where cartilage cells change over time
into bone cells. As this occurs, the growth plates expand and unite,
which is how bones grow.
Sever's disease is a common cause of heel pain in growing kids,
especially those who are physically active. It usually occurs during the
growth spurt of adolescence, the approximately 2-year period in early
puberty when kids grow most rapidly.
This growth spurt can begin any
time between the ages of 8 and 13 for girls and 10 and 15 for boys.
Sever's disease rarely occurs in older teens because the back of the
heel usually finishes growing by the age of 15, when the growth plate
hardens and the growing bones fuse together into mature bone.
Sever's disease is similar to Osgood-Schlatter disease, a condition that affects the bones in the knees.
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