TEENAGE ORTHOPEDIC
PROBLEMS
Such problems as slipped capital femoral epiphysis,
idiopathic scoliosis, Osgood-Schlatter disease, costochondritis of the
sternoclavicular joint (Tietze syndrome) on account of rapid growth of long
bones, open epiphyses, increased traction at insertion of muscles and pulls and
pressures of sports are common during adolescence. Further, incidence of
arthralgia from rubella, infectious mononucleosis and other viral infections is
relatively high in adolescents.
Though infections of bones and joints are relatively less
frequent in adolescents, these may follow as a complication of sickle-cell
anemia or disseminated gonococcemia.
About 10-14% adolescent girls and 5% boys manifest a slight
curvature of the spine(scoliosis) during the peak of the height velocity curve.
This require no orthopedic attention unless the curve exceeds 10 degrees.
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