This week we are going to discuss a common and very painful condition of the knee as well as one of the ankle, both of which are similarly related and both which can be managed reasonably in the ...

About 20 percent of young athletes will experience knee pain in the form of Osgood-Schlatter syndrome, a traction apophysitis that has become increasingly known in the youth sports community. What is ...

With children and teens under pressure to star on the playing field, sports injuries have become common. Here’s how to recognize and treat them. Roughly 30 million children and adolescents in the ...

October 3, 2011 — In athletes with intractable Osgood-Schlatter disease (OSD), dextrose injected over the apophysis and patellar tendon origin appears to be safe and well tolerated and resulted in ...

Osgood-Schlatter disease, also called tibial tuberosity apophysitis, is a disorder that causes temporary pain, tenderness, and swelling of the knee. In most cases, pain and swelling occurs at the ...

Background The pathogenesis of the Osgood-Schlatter's disease (OSD) is still debated. The fragmentation of the ossification centre has been questioned as a definitive sign of OSD and has been seen as ...