I recently discovered I had osgood schatters, this isn't a question I'm just telling you what happend, the pain under my knee was effecting my sports and going to the docotors didn't help, but I've been resting, stretcing, and even changed my diet (stop eating milk and sugar), I've also got a foot elevation thing, for my shoe and it helps relieve some inflammation in the knee because I have a 'flat foot'(no arching under my feet) I've noticed alot of the pain has gone away :D and I have yet to recieve my physical therapy sessions which are comming up soon. I know it won't go away till I'm fully grown, but do you think I have a chance of heading back to sports soon? Earlier this year I broke my thumb and I was out of my b-ball season for weeks and it was a total bummer, and now I have osgood schatters and the b-ball season has just started yet again T_T. To add on to that my wii and computer broke down and I can't play outside! T_T. Any advice or support plz. :)
Update:Uh...I'm 13 years old, and 120 do I need to lose wieght? lol, thx anyway man for the links. It helped. :D
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We're pretty much the same, except I'm 17. Yea man it does suck. My knee still gives me problems once in a while, but I'm rarely playing hard basketball. I found out I had Osgood Schlatters when I turned 16 because I grew more than 11 inches in only a year. I was really happy because I was always short, but my new height gave me tendonitis in my shoulders and my growth plate in my knee is all jacked up. I skipped last basketball season because it wasn't fun anymore with my knee and some other things. You don't need to sit out the season, but be prepared to be in some pain. You have to constantly keep stretching your knee out. Make sure you get someone else to do it to get a really good stretch, before practice, after practice, all the time. Make sure you ice your knee after physical activity and let it rest. You can also take some motrin or something else for practice and games. You can do all this, but you just have to wait it out like I;m doing
omg i have tht 2! i wasnt stoped from my sports tho... i just have to wear these mcDavid knee braces. you can buy them a t like a ***** sporting goods or a sports athority