Children’s knee pain may be related to physiological factors, such as rapid growth during development, or pathological factors, such as knee cysts, or destruction of the joint capsule, ligament injuries and so on.
1. Physiological factors: In the process of growth and development, because the child grows too fast, the bone growth is also very fast, the periosteum produces stimulation, there will be pain, clinically known as growing pains. This situation is not caused by disease, growing pains do not need treatment, but pay attention to the child’s movement needs moderate control.
2. Pathologic factors:
(1) Knee cysts: generally related to trauma and joint degeneration, divided into congenital and acquired, congenital is seen in children, acquired because of chronic damage to the bursa.
(2) Joint capsule destruction: most of them are caused by external forces on the body, such as striking, crushing, collision or flopping, weight-bearing, twisting, and so on.
(3) Ligament damage: When subjected to violence that produces non-physiologic activity, ligament damage occurs when the ligament is stretched beyond its ability to tolerate it. For example, caused by strenuous exercise, car accidents or accidental injuries such as falling from a height or stumbling.
If physiological causes are ruled out, you should seek prompt medical attention from your doctor to clarify the cause of the injury and, if necessary, carry out the relevant treatment.