What causes knee pain in children



Children’s knee pain may be physiological causes, or it may be a symptomatic manifestation of certain diseases, such as trauma, synovitis, allergic purpura, etc., and the cause of the disease should be identified in a timely manner by consulting a doctor.

⒈ physiological causes.

If the child’s activity is relatively large, due to the child’s bone growth rate is relatively fast, while the growth of ligaments and muscles is relatively slow, which can easily lead to ligaments and muscles being pulled and cause knee pain.

⒉Pathologic causes.

(1) trauma: if there is a small child accidentally fall, sprain or knee joints by external impact, resulting in damage to the bones or soft tissues at the knee, this will also cause children’s knee pain.

(2) synovitis: due to infection, obesity and other factors lead to the accumulation of synovial membrane damage, the formation of synovitis, the child will have symptoms of knee pain.

(3) Anaphylactic purpura: due to a variety of factors causing abnormal immune response, causing systemic vasculitis, resulting in tissue and organ damage, children’s knee pain will occur, this disease will also appear abdominal pain, skin purpura and other symptoms.

When the child knee pain to exclude physiological causes, should be timely to the hospital, identify the cause of the disease, symptomatic treatment.