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She suffered a stress fracture on the final, downhill straightaway of the 3A North Region meet at Tollgate Park Oct 30. Running just behind the leader, she was 200 meters from the finish when the growth-plate fracture occurred. She hobbled to the finish Excessive throwing can lead to a growth-plate fracture. Photo Credit Ablestock.com/AbleStock.com/Getty Images Growth-plate injuries account for 15 percent to 30 percent of all childhood fractures, according to the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons. A green stick fracture is an incomplete fracture in a long bone of a child who has not finished growing. A fracture involving a growth plate (the cartilage plate near the end of the bone of a growing child where growth occurs) can lead to disturbances in Obese children are 74 percent more likely to sustain a fracture of the growth plate, the softer end of the bone where growth occurs. A new study presented today at the 2012 Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS), involved 224 It was another lazy Sundaythe neighbor kids were over and playing nicely together with my 6 year old son. They weren't jumping out of trees, they weren't wrestling, they weren't on a trampolinethey were on the landing at the bottom of the stairs This week, the 2012 Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS) is taking place at the Moscone Convention Center in San Francisco. Several research reports being presented to the attendees are very applicable to EMS and worthy of .

DEAR MAYO CLINIC: My 11-year-old daughter was recently diagnosed with a fracture of the growth plate in her ankle. The doctor prescribed a walking boot for six weeks. Is it possible that the injury was brought on by overuse? How long should she wait before Why Growth Plate Fractures can be bad news Growth plates are the weakest Tracy Ballock, MD, a surgeon in Cleveland Clinic’s Center for Pediatric Orthopaedic Surgery who is conducting research in this field under a National Institutes of Health .

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