Osgood-Schlatter's disease

Yeah.

So like someone with, like, Osgood-Schlatter, right? Where they have that, like that knee tendon pain.

Mm-hmm.

If they sit in a leg extension position and just drive against something that doesn't move, the data shows a 45% reduction in pain-

Maybe you have

Osgood Schlatter.

What's Osgood

Schlatter?

We know there's Sever's disease, which is related to the heel of the foot.

Um, Osgood-Schlatter is where we get changes in the way that the knee forms and how your bones grow when you get bigger, and all of those things can be a problem for young kids who are training.

But it's a, it's a really great point to talk about, Graham, because parents often don't realize.

They think, "Right, my child's in a, you know, elite tennis program," or they might be, you know, really starting their early AFL career at Auskick.

But like along the way, you know, to kind of supplement my doing football and, you know, doing rugby in college, I had picked up weightlifting.

And yeah, I'd also had this, some of your listeners might be familiar, especially, I think it's more familiar, or I'm sorry, more rather common in boys growing up, a condition in the knee called Osgood-Schlatter's.

It's very common in guys that are Playing sports, especially contact sports that require a lot of stopping and starting, this condition that can develop in the knee, nothing major.

Most kids outgrow it.

And then at the knee, I think it depends sort of on the age range.

Obviously, in younger kids, you can get more of like the, not necessarily chronic, but it probably is to some degree, but like a Osgood-Schlatter or something that sort of has been developing for a while.

You can see just patellar tendonitis in sort of all age ranges.

Quad tendonitis, probably a little less likely.

Cool.

Yeah.

And you mentioned a couple of the bony issues too, just like the apophysitis, you know, Osgood-Schlatter's in the knee, Sievers in the, you know, the calcaneus, Little League elbow, so medial epicondyle apophysitis, and then proximal humerus, right? We see more and more, especially with those kids that don't take breaks.

What do you think are some of the misconceptions? We covered on a lot of great variety of topics for overviews.

Yes.

So if a patient has a history of, say, Osgood-Schlatter disease, their tuberosity is hypertrophied and elongated, completely skewing your ratio and giving you a false positive for patella alta.

That is the exact pitfall.

It is a massive trap for young surgeons.

And this is another stat about that Osgood-Sever disease that it is 7% to 21% of young, those adolescents, are experiencing that injury.

ausgutschlatter disease so it's very common and they even provide when exactly usually it's it occurs and usually that ausgutschlatter disease appears when you are around 88 percent of your height that you will be So they say, this is a study 2025, they say that if you have that Osgood-Schlatter disease, most likely you are around 88% of your height that you will be.

Of course, like this is with the football.

And of course, we cannot say whenever your knees start to hurt and we are sure that it is Osgood-Schlatter disease, that I will grow 12 more%.

No, maybe it'll grow 20, maybe 25, maybe 5.

We don't know.

But like science says, it's around 88%.

Yes.

We see a lot of growth plate injuries around that age.

So we're talking Severs, Osgood-Schlatter's, Hippophosphatitis, which is injury to the growth plate of the hip.

So the growth plate is a little soft piece of bone in the bone.

It's the area where the bone grows.

It's just evolving over time.

And it all started with Osgood-Schlatter and Stuff can last.

Just to wrap up this part, in a perfect world, overarching, what do you think are some of the best things that should be done if you could choose?

In terms of what? What to play?