Talk:Growing pains

Scientific literature regarding kinetic pain of rapid long bone growth

Has rapid long bone growth been disproven as a source of the pain? ie, transmitted pain from bone to adjacent nerve tissue, muscle tearing due to bone elongation during full contraction excercise, etc? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 151.151.98.236 (talk) 16:13, 17 June 2009 (UTC)

Should dog info be under its own article,panosteitis?

Currently panosteitis but I'm not sure that "growing pains" is a term used commonly for dogs and it also looks, from the description for human kids, that it's not really the same thing? Elf | Talk 05:08, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

I agree. I didn't change the link from dog health which was to growing pains because someone else already had dog info there. I will copy the info over to the panosteitis page and remove the redirect. --Joelmills 05:27, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

Thanks. The usual procedure when splitting off an article like this is to click What Links Here in your left navigation panel and then use that list to go back & correct the articles that are now pointing to the wrong place. Since there were only a couple, I fixed 'em while I was thinking about it. :-) Elf | Talk 05:46, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

Cuddling and Affection? Can this be sourced?

"Also, children complaining of growing pains often respond well to cuddling and affection, which contrasts with the reaction of children with more serious illnesses who tend to shun contact since handling often increases the pain." - This needs to be sourced before being readded since it makes two assumptions that may well be erroneous and perhaps not in the best interest of children or parents dealing with growing pains or serious illnessess. My own gut feeling says that this is just a stereotype. I would hate to have some parent dismiss their child's pain as them just wanting "cuddling and affection", or for parents to feel like they should decrease such contact with their children if they have a serious illness.

Crohn's Disease

"Growing pains", really pains similar, but of different causes, can be a warning sign of Crohn's Disease, if a docter takes notice. Something I, unfortunately, found out the hard way. TwistedRed 23:38, 14 November 2007 (UTC)

people some times belive growing pains are due to puberty but they are not —Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.151.138.13 (talk) 16:20, 11 February 2008 (UTC)