Osgood Schlatter Disease in Adults: Treatment for Knee Pain

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What is Osgood Schlatter Disease? Osgood-Schlatter disease is a condition characterized by a painful inflammation (bony knob or spur) located under your kneecap (patella). The cause of Osgood Schlatters is irritation on your growth plate (tibial tuberosity), where your patellar tendon attaches to your shinbone (tibia). What does that mean? During a growth spurt, children and adolescents’ thigh muscles (quadriceps) don’t always keep up with the growth of their thighbone (femur). As their quadricep muscle stretches, it pulls on their patellar tendon, which connects their kneecap to their shinbone. This repeated tension and irritation causes pain, swelling, inflammation, and sometimes the formation of a bump under kids’ knees. Do Adults Get Osgood Schlatter Disease? The good news is that Osgood-Schlatter disease, commonly referred to as the growing pains of your knees, usually goes away after you’ve stopped growing, usually between