OSGOOD SCHLATTER'S DISEASE

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Osgood-Schlatter's Disease is an overuse injury of the spot where the quadriceps muscle attaches on the front of the knee.
It usually effects 9 - 12 year olds, and gets sore with too much running, jumping, and kicking.
Quite often it will be sore if they’re having a growth spurt while they’re doing a lot of training. The body is busy spending its resources on the growing, and so the recovery between training sessions doesn’t keep up.
It’s usually sore after training when you cool down. It can ache in bed at night.
It doesn’t need an x-ray or a scan, or any injections or surgery. It's an easy clinical diagnosis and simple conservative management.
DO:
Try and get to bed earlier.
Ice after training.
Isometric strengthening exercise.
DON’T:
When it’s sore you’ve got to cut back on running / hopping / jumping / kicking. So that might mean dropping 30mins from a training session. Or do a session or two less this week. Or avoid the sprint work and long kicks in a session.
It’s really a matter of adjusting the running load day-to-day depending on how sore it is. If it’s sore - do less.
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