Osgood-Schlatter Disease

The pain will resolve own its own once he stops growing. Treatment is conservative. Main thing will be quad stretching and modify activities that cause pain.

Here's a link to read more about it:
Osgood Schlatter Disease

These are some good braces if you want to go this route:
Braces

Thanks for the help guys. Not sure why LSU got a down vote, looks like good info

Probably needs to get the kid on hgh before it’s too late

I remember reading an article where Shaq said he had that condition as a youth.

I've actually considered posting as a PSA to all the dads.

My 14yr old son has had OSD and occasional pain for about a month. He had a huge growth spurt over the summer and is a ranked athlete in his sport - so resolution is a big deal.

The pain MIGHT resolve as growth ends, but most athletes would hate that solution. Some people struggle for years, some people get genuine bone issues from it.

We actually diagnosed OSD on him while doing his ATG routine (which he's done for a year as injury prevention). Running doesn't hurt him, but I couldn't figure out why the Patrick Step and Poliquin Step hurt him. Eventually realized that, as his knee goes out over his toe, the kneecap action results in the patellar tendon pulling on the tibial tuberosity more, thereby aggravating the OSD. So while he's still doing ATG stuff, we are avoiding that movement pattern until we get more healing.

What We've Been Doing:

I did a remote consult with a physical therapist who I heard on a few podcasts claiming a high success rate. He took my son through a ton of movements and built a program to address his issues. His theory is that many OSD sufferers have imbalances and the quad/knee is doing way too much work. Our primary focus is: Building posterior strength, developing better hamstring flexibility, releasing the quads, recruiting supporting muscles more. Plenty of hip/glute work as well.

I bought a Nordic Bench, and it's been very helpful.

Basically our Routine (omitting upper body):
-Sled Work (drag backwards, push back into place)
-ATG stuff x movements that create pain (mentioned above)
-Nordic Bench
-Bulg Split Squats
-Glute Bridges
-Reverse Hypers
-Lots of quad foam rolling
-Quad stretches from PT
-Glute stretches from PT
-Hip stretches from PT
-Hip Hinge Work (for hamstrings)

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I've actually considered posting as a PSA to all the dads.

My 14yr old son has had OSD and occasional pain for about a month. He had a huge growth spurt over the summer and is a ranked athlete in his sport - so resolution is a big deal.

The pain MIGHT resolve as growth ends, but most athletes would hate that solution. Some people struggle for years, some people get genuine bone issues from it.

We actually diagnosed OSD on him while doing his ATG routine (which he's done for a year as injury prevention). Running doesn't hurt him, but I couldn't figure out why the Patrick Step and Poliquin Step hurt him. Eventually realized that, as his knee goes out over his toe, the kneecap action results in the patellar tendon pulling on the tibial tuberosity more, thereby aggravating the OSD. So while he's still doing ATG stuff, we are avoiding that movement pattern until we get more healing.

What We've Been Doing:

I did a remote consult with a physical therapist who I heard on a few podcasts claiming a high success rate. He took my son through a ton of movements and built a program to address his issues. His theory is that many OSD sufferers have imbalances and the quad/knee is doing way too much work. Our primary focus is: Building posterior strength, developing better hamstring flexibility, releasing the quads, recruiting supporting muscles more. Plenty of hip/glute work as well.

I bought a Nordic Bench, and it's been very helpful.

Basically our Routine (omitting upper body):
-Sled Work (drag backwards, push back into place)
-ATG stuff x movements that create pain (mentioned above)
-Nordic Bench
-Bulg Split Squats
-Glute Bridges
-Reverse Hypers
-Lots of quad foam rolling
-Quad stretches from PT
-Glute stretches from PT
-Hip stretches from PT
-Hip Hinge Work (for hamstrings)

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looks awesome man and really shows you know what you are doing.

i would make 1 suggest, if he starts having more pain from ATG SS the i would replace with reverse lunges and a crosack squat where you really focus on getting into the glutes and hamstrings.

i agree with your pt on his theory and beleive in heavy Tib volume along with everything else you put.

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Back in my day they treated “diseases” like this with a belt

We still squatted tonight, still no pain. The poliquin step ups hurt him pretty bad. We did a bunch of sled drags, tib raises, and quad stretching and he’s pretty limber in the quads.

What’s bugging me is that he is all posterior chain strength, his quads are lacking. Seems like that should be reversed from all I’ve read.

I cut out all the jumps and sprints (good idea?). I’m just being cautious because I don’t want him to have knee issues because he’s looking like he’s going to be pretty tall.

I have this.

I remember it hurting a frickton during puberty. Very sensitive. Then one day it stopped.

There's just a big lump there now, no pain.

My wife marvels at it. It really is a gigantic bump lol. I've got a much smaller bump on my left knee, but it's the same thing.

Yep for sprints, do hill sprints or heavy arse sled pushes

For jumps, do band resisted where he can’t really get off the ground but is learning to produce that force

I will warn you though, both of y’all, when y’all can get them back to normal y’all need to work the shite out of deceleration movements like depth drops before moving to any over acceleration