My knee has been hurting for a long time , im only 14?

hi, im 14 in 9nth grade, at the beginning of the year and in the summer till winter break i was on the cross country team running 36-40 miles a week, for about 5 months, after that and a couple of really hard races, my knee pain came and is still here, so it has been here for about 5 months, when it started hurting i went to my doctor and he said that im doing too much, so i did no running or p.e.at all for three months with a knee brace, and now for two months its still here and im sick of the knee brace because it did not change anything, so are my running days over?my feet used to hurt when this all started and i got like three new pairs of running shoes, please help, are my running days over i have asked this question a whole lot of times and still the pain is here

My knee has been hurting for a long time , im only 14?
maybe u should go 2 the doctor because your knee bone can be out of it's place
Reply:I think i had the same thing as you were describing. I had something called 'Severs Disesase'. I used to do similiar amount of running as you did. I got it diagnosed by my physiotherapist. Maybe you should go to one to confirm it.





Sever's disease, or calcaneal apophysitis, is the most frequent cause of heel pain in children between the ages of 9 and 15 and is due to an inflammation of growing plates, of the calcaneus in the back of the foot, due to the rapid growth of bone when compared to the calceneal tendon (otherwise known as the Achilles tendon).





Although is says just the heel, i had it in my knees as well. hwat i found helped as well was putting a heel cusion in my show on the leg it was hurting, which helped just raise my heel that slight bit and it hurt less/stopped hurting.
Reply:Listen to joiks. Otherwise you will end up like me with premature arthritis, and you will be eating NSAIDs like candy.
Reply:i had the same problem, you probably have a condition called runners knee. Its nothing bad, when i had it the doctor said just to work out my quads. But still check with ur doctor 2 make sure



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