It’s gymnastics practice. You’re supposed to be having fun as you practice and memorize every move, step and leap of your routine. But it seems that every time you land you get this pain, it feels like the plates in your heal are smacking and rubbing together. You can’t take a break, you have a gymnastics competition next week and you have to attend every practice in order to attend the competition. You can’t rest it at home because as soon as you finish your homework you have to stretch your muscles and practice even more. So this means you have to learn to land, tumble, and jump with this horrible pain in your foot. What happens when you keep landing and tumbling with the pain in your foot? Sever’s disease, every gymnasts worst nightmare, …show more content…
and now it has happened to you. Sever’s disease is caused by the rubbing of the heel plates in your foot.
For girls it is more common at the ages 10 through 13. This is the time of your heel plates are going through a rapid growth spurt.(Sever’s Disease; Symptoms) People with sports that involve jumping or running. In gymnastics when you’re constantly running and jumping into tricks, you are also constantly landing on the plates of your heel. Which is causing more friction between your growing heel plates causing a lot of pain. This however is not a disease but a common injury found in kids. Sever’s disease isn’t only caused by plates of your heel during a growth spurt. You can also develop Sever’s disease because your heel is growing to rapidly and your tendons and muscles can not keep up. Creating a pulled or strained feeling in your foot due to the stretching of muscles. This is such a common injury because your heel is one of the first body parts to grow to reach the adult …show more content…
size. Gymnasts can develop Sever’s disease so easily because of the constant running and jumping on hard surfaces, creates even more of a strain on the overly stretched tendons in your heel. Sudden stops can also cause Sever’s Disease. When gymnasts to forward tricks, they usually jump straight down in the middle of running and then they flip and rotating. In gymnasts your feet are landed and used so much, this disease is way more common. So instead of landing every trick perfectly like the coaches expect you are forced by the pain in your heel to land on the other foot, with all of your weight. And then you get this question from your coaches, Is your foot alright? Except you can’t answer truthfully, because if the coach finds out you’re developing this odd disease in your heel they will instruct you to rest it and wait until the next competition. This doesn’t sound too bad until you find out that this competition is the basis of your journey to world’s. Your lifelong dream could be ended by telling your coach the truth. So instead you say, I’m fine my foot is just a little sore from practicing so much. Now it’s time to go back and tumble, making the pain even worse. So now when you get home you are limping and then the worst thing imaginable happens. Your parents find out. Leaving you no choice but to tell them what’s going on. Lying is worse, if your parents catch you lying you could be scolded. Big time, this is an injury that needs rest. Now that your parents know they have already set up a doctor’s appointment before you could get the last word out of your mouth. You already know that this injury is painful, but what you don’t know are the actual causes of this disease.
The pain is from the swelling in your heel plates, which allows them to rub together creating the pain (”Sever’s Disease”). Some symptoms of Sever’s Disease can include: “swelling and redness in the heel, difficulty walking, discomfort or stiffness in the feet upon walking, discomfort when the heel is squeezed on both sides, an unusual walk, such as walking with a limp or on tiptoes to avoid putting pressure on the heel,” (“Sever’s Disease”). These symptoms will worsen after physical activity and will get better with rest. Not only is gymnastics a physical activity, but one that requires the constant landing of a heel, making gymnasts more prone to getting this
disease. So when you go to the doctors for your heel, they apply pressure on both sides of the heel. If that hurts your done. So you lie and say it doesn’t hurt, so the doctor tells you it’s probably just sore from gymnastics. This is great! You can still participate in the competition. But you still have pain in your foot. Now you're putting as much work as you can in practice so when you get home all you do is run the routine through your head. So you now aren’t practicing at home, just memorizing, allowing you to rest your foot. It’s competition day and your foot feels a whole lot better, letting you perform every trick and move perfectly for judges. Now you’ve made it to worlds. The most common treatment is resting your foot. However sometimes that doesn’t relieve all of the pain. So you have to put more time into healing your foot. Some treatments options are: performing foot and leg exercises to strengthen the leg muscles and bones, elevating and applying ice, using a compression stocking that s designed to reduce pain and swelling, or taking over-the-counter medicine such as Tylenol or ibuprofen. If you have a pronated foot, a flat or high arch, or any condition that increases the risk of Sever’s disease, you should use heel pads that cushion the heels, heel lifts, or arch supports (”Sever’s Disease”) . Sever’s disease will subside when your foot growth is complete and the growth plate has fused to the entire heel bone, this will happen around the age of fifteen.(”Sever’s Disease”). To find more information about this disease visit kidshealth.org or Orthopedics.childrenscolorado.org.
Over time, constant wearing of heels will lead to chronic pain and destruction of
I studied the graceful ballerinas that danced en pointe with ease. Although, holding my entire weight onto two toes is a task that requires stamina and dedication. My feet usually get used to the pain and pressure to some degree, but it doesn’t feels completely painless. There is always one blister constantly nagging me, or one cut that just slightly stings.
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Once school was out last year, I had done something to my foot. I don’t know what happened to it, but I know a general time frame it happened in. At first, I thought it was just my foot getting used to the new summer conditioning. After about three weeks, the pain had moved towards my achilles tendon. Once that happened, I only had pain when I pointed my toes, or pushed through my toes. The pain was to a point where my coach was noticing a change in tumbling, so she had me go to a doctor to make sure everything was
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