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Lurie Children’s Home Specialties & ConditionsSports Medicine Conditions

Sports Medicine Conditions

Our physicians make every attempt to stay at the forefront of treatment advances, making sure they provide o​ur patients with the best care possible. We take specialized and evidence-based approaches to diagnosing and treating children's sports injuries. The following is a list of many of the conditions we treat.

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    Idiopathic Toe-walking

    Persistent walking on the toes or the balls of the feet, fairly common in kids who are learning to walk.

    Iliotibial (IT) Band Friction Syndrome

    One of the leading causes of knee pain in runners, occurs when this tendon gets irritated or inflamed from overuse, causing pain and snapping on the outside of the knee.

    Internal Snapping Hip Syndrome

    Snapping sound occurring with flexion or extension of the hip, coming from the tendon of the hip flexor muscle as it moves through its normal motion across the hip joint.

    Iselin Disease (Apophysitis of the Fifth Metatarsal)

    Painful irritation and inflammation of the apophysis (growth plate) at the base of the 5th metatarsal (foot bone), where one of the calf muscles inserts.