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What is an epiphyseal plate injury?
The epiphyseal plate is the growth plate, which is a cartilage plate at the end of a bone where growth occurs in children and adolescents. Growth plates are the weakest places in a child’s skeleton.
Epiphyseal Plate Injury Overview
This link includes diagrams showing different types of epiphyseal plate injuries.
Growth Plate Injury overview—National Institute of Health
This link offers great overview information on growth plate injuries, including symptoms and potential treatment.
Growth Plate Fractures
This link describes why children are prone to growth plate injuries.
Tillaux Fracture
<link to pics from Michael>
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What clinical findings (signs, symptoms,
and test results) indicate an epiphyseal plate injury?
- Severe Pain
- Joint Pain
- Reduced play in a child
- Visible deformity of the child’s arms or legs
- Inability to use the affected limb
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Treatment Options
Like many other sports injuries, treatment depends on the severity of the injury.
Treatment Overview - Wrongdiagnosis.com
This link offers a simple overview of possible treatment options.
Treatment Overview - NIAMS
This link provides a more in-depth look at treating epiphyseal plate injuries, including the kind of doctors who treat this injury and the potential for residual problems in patients who have had this type of injury.
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Science Links
How you feel pain
This link describes the types of pain, how we feel pain and how pain may manifest itself.
Why do I have pain?
Written for kids, this site gives a good, but simple overview on pain and how experiencing pain can actually help our bodies.
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