As a teenager, there’s a lot of stress and pressure when it comes to school, sports, a social life, family life, etc. With all that going on, the last thing anybody wants to deal with is growing pains. The term “growing pains” is used a lot but there aren’t many painful conditions specifically caused by growth. What we are going to cover today is one of those conditions. Osgood-Schlatter disease is a condition that effects one or both knees in growing children and young adults. There are more than 200,000 cases reported every year. The primary age group effected by …
To start off this Month for Moms we are going to discuss an issue that is very common in infants but can cause quite a scare if the parents don’t know what’s going on. The condition in question is infant torticollis. Despite the fancy name, it is a very simple condition. Infant torticollis can otherwise be known as “infant crooked neck syndrome”. What is happening in infant torticollis is severe contraction, or spasm, of the muscles on one side of the infant’s neck. The same thing can happen to adults as well. If you’ve ever woken up with severe neck stiffness and …