OSGOOD SCHLATTER SYNDROME
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(Chronic Knee Pain in Children & Adolescents)
- TREATMENT IS BASED ON PRESCRIPTION: Not only are PAIN MEDS, MUSCLE RELAXERS, NSAIDS, and CORTICOSTEROIDS, ineffective for Osgood Schlatter’s Syndrome, but they can be dangerous as well. The problem is that far too many doctors are using a treatment model that is based on ‘itis‘ (INFLAMMATION) instead of ‘osis‘ (the tissue derangement I refer to in my office as “SCAR TISSUE” and the medical community calls “FIBROSIS“). It is a model that was scientifically outdated three decades ago! Anti-inflammatory drugs of all kinds degenerate collagen-based connective tissues (as do CERTAIN KINDS OF ANTIBIOTICS), and lead to kidney, liver, and heart problems with prolonged use as well. Remember the old slogan, “Tylenol… Nothing Safer “? THEY LIED.
- TREATMENT IS OFTEN AIMED AT THE WRONG AREA: Treatment is frequently focused on the painful tibial tubercle below the knee instead of focusing on the real source of the problem (hint; the Scar Tissue / Fibrosis). Several years ago I treated a college basketball player from a local town (he was a junior or senior at the time). He had been receiving treatment (sometimes hours a day) since the 8th grade — all at the painful Tibial Tubercle. I found the FASCIAL ADHESION, broke it up, and he was 90% better — instantly (HERE)! Sometimes the problem is at the tubercle itself; usually it’s not.
- TREATMENT DOES NOT INCLUDE BREAKING SCAR TISSUE: Osgood Schlatter’s Syndrome is typically addressed by resting and doing lots of stretches. A nice thought……. But until the restricting adhesion is dealt with, rest and stretching are usually (in all but the most minor cases) ineffective. And let’s face facts. How many athletes want ‘prolonged rest’ as part of their regimen?
OSGOOD SCHLATTER SYNDROME AND ITS
RELATIONSHIP TO THE KNEE JOINT
Dr. Schierling’s protocol for treating Osgood Schlatter Syndrome utilizes techniques similar to those used by the physicians and clinicians that treat both professional and college sports teams. In most cases, it takes just one or two in-office treatments to see a major change, and it is not uncommon to see a dramatic change immediately upon treatment. Patients are then given simple stretching and strengthening programs to do at home in order to restore the strength, balance, and mobility to the knee. In over fifteen years of treating people with Osgood Schlatter Syndrome using these specific protocols, I am not sure that I have ever failed to see a case resolve or at least dramatically improve.