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Is it Growing Pains — or is it Something You Shouldn’t Wait on?

Your kid mentions their knee. Or their shoulder. Or their back. Then they shrug and go play the next game — because they don’t want to come out of the lineup, and they don’t want you to worry.

So you’re left guessing. And the guessing is the hard part.

Most parents get one of two answers, and neither one helps:

  • “They’ll grow out of it.” — Sometimes true. Sometimes it’s how a manageable problem becomes a season-ending one.

  • “Just take a few weeks off.” — Time off reduces the pain. It doesn’t correct the movement pattern that caused it. They come back, they move the same way, it comes back too.

Young athletes are not small adults.

A growth spurt can change a kid’s mechanics in a matter of months — bones lengthen faster than the muscles and tendons attached to them. That’s exactly when overuse injuries appear, and exactly when they get dismissed as “growing pains.”

The question isn’t “is this serious?” It’s “what’s actually causing it?” — and that’s answerable.

Dr. Gray is the lead sports physical therapist for Canterbury School in Fort Myers. Working with young athletes isn’t a side offering here.

Signs it’s worth getting checked:

  • Pain in the same spot, every time they play
  • They’ve changed how they move — a limp after games, favoring one side, an altered throwing or serving motion
  • It’s lasted more than two weeks without clearly improving
  • Pain that wakes them up at night, or is there in the morning before they’ve done anything
  • They play year-round in one sport with no real off-season
  • They’ve stopped mentioning it — but you can see it

Reassurance block (light gray, smaller type) What an assessment with us is not:

It’s not a sales pitch for six months of visits. It’s not a lecture about specialization. And it’s not us telling you your kid has to quit the sport they love.

It’s us finding out what’s actually going on, telling you straight, and giving you a plan — even if that plan is “keep an eye on it, and here are three things to do at home.”

Start here. → Download: Growing Pains or a Real Problem? A Parent’s Guide to Youth Sports Injuries