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Sever's Disease

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Osteochondrosis of the calcaneus



  • Degenerative changes in a growth center of the heel bone
  • A painful heel, during the childhood years
  • The particular region that degenerates and causes the pain is a small, unusual, extra growth center in the back end of the heel bone.  Not everyone has this extra growth center, known as an apophysis.

  • Tenderness of the heel
  • Painful heel after exercise
  • Toe-walking, to minimize pressure on the heel

  • Physical stress leads to microscopic Fractures in the cartilage of this growth center.

  • A history of athletics that could repeatedly traumatize the heel, coupled with the above symptoms, suggest the diagnosis.
  • A dense, chalky X-ray appearance of the extra growth center in the back of the heel bone might suggest Sever's disease, but this may also be a normal X-ray finding.  The chalky appearance on the X-ray is not sufficient to make the diagnosis.

  • Athletic activities in children, especially ones that traumatize the heels (e.g., contact sports such as football, hockey, basketball).

  • Rest the affected heel by decreasing those physical activities that produce pounding of the heel.
  • A special boot or cast is sometimes used to reduce the physical forces that stress the growth centers of the heel.

  • Continued pain

  • Consult a physician

  • Any other cause of a painful foot or heel (for example, trauma)
  • Similarly, Osgood-Schlatter Disease involves pain below the knee due to degenerative change in the growth center in this region.  (Sever's disease involves pain in the back end of the heel bone.)




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