There are many reasons for children’s foot pain, including traumatic pain, growing pain, peripheral neuropathy, plantar fasciitis, foot bone benign and malignant tumors, etc., if the pain is serious or long-lasting should be as soon as possible to seek medical treatment.
1. Traumatic pain: if the child’s feet due to suffer from crushing, smashing, impact, scratches or excessive friction caused by shoe discomfort foot trauma, it will cause foot pain, should be as soon as possible to seek medical and surgical treatment.
2. Growing pains: children’s bones in the stage of growth and development are also growing, active bone growth or lack of calcium, lack of vitamin D, etc. can lead to children’s bone pain.
3. Peripheral neuropathy: such as post-infectious peripheral neuritis, trauma, Guillain-Barre syndrome, etc. can cause foot pain in children.
4. Plantar fasciitis: If the plantar fascia is stretched when the child is playing sports, or the inflammation spreads to the foot after the systemic infection, it triggers the inflammatory reaction of the plantar fascia and leads to plantar pain.
5. benign and malignant tumors of foot bone: tumor cells erode the bones of plantar foot and cause severe pain, such as giant cell tumor of bone and other diseases, the tumor invades normal bone tissue and causes pain.
6. Arthritis: children with underlying diseases, such as juvenile rheumatoid arthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, gout and other diseases can cause children’s foot pain.
Causes of children’s foot pain in many causes, and foot myositis, etc. should be timely consultation, do not delay the treatment of children.