Hi all,
I'm new, as you may see from my post count .
My dd is 8yo (9 in June) and is finishing up Level 3. She has one meet this weekend and then states in around a month. After that there are a few more weeks and she'll be in summer training. During the year she's been doing 9 hours(3 hrs, 3 days a week) but summer will be 25 (5 hours, 5 days). She loves gym and she loves learning new things so she's happy for the end of the season and the start of summer.
But...
In the Fall she had a flare up of heel pain, which I figured out was Sever's. We got through it with x-brace, Cheetah cups, good shoes, and stretching. Yay. Then we got lazy about it and she wasn't even wearing her x-brace during practice for months. They started working front handsprings and it came back, worse than ever in her right heel. During the worst time she was limping throughout the day. She took two weeks off and we did a lot of icing, stretching, massage. It got somewhat better but it's still bothering her and it's been going on for a month. When she wakes up she limps around until her shoes are on and then she doesn't limp anymore. Right now we're doing 2-3 20 minute ice baths a day, 2 massages a day, and stretching. She's sometimes doing full gym practices and sometimes not doing any tumbling/landing stuff. We went to the doctor who said it's just Sever's and to keep on with what we're doing and rest as needed. I wonder if dd might also have some combination of bursitis and/or Achilles tendonitis too based on where and how it hurts her. She does not seem to be going through a growth spurt either in her feet or elsewhere. She's very small for her age and if anything I think she's falling even further behind her friends in both height and foot size.
So, I guess I have two questions:
1. Have you managed to get a child through heel pain of this severity with something like the protocol we are doing? Did it require time off completely from gym and how long? I am inclined to see if we can get through states and then take some time off if needed so that she can handle the increase in hours in the summer. If she stays as she is now I see no way she can do even 3 hours of gym a day, let alone 5.
2. Is there anything I'm missing in terms of dealing with this?
thanks.
I'm new, as you may see from my post count .
My dd is 8yo (9 in June) and is finishing up Level 3. She has one meet this weekend and then states in around a month. After that there are a few more weeks and she'll be in summer training. During the year she's been doing 9 hours(3 hrs, 3 days a week) but summer will be 25 (5 hours, 5 days). She loves gym and she loves learning new things so she's happy for the end of the season and the start of summer.
But...
In the Fall she had a flare up of heel pain, which I figured out was Sever's. We got through it with x-brace, Cheetah cups, good shoes, and stretching. Yay. Then we got lazy about it and she wasn't even wearing her x-brace during practice for months. They started working front handsprings and it came back, worse than ever in her right heel. During the worst time she was limping throughout the day. She took two weeks off and we did a lot of icing, stretching, massage. It got somewhat better but it's still bothering her and it's been going on for a month. When she wakes up she limps around until her shoes are on and then she doesn't limp anymore. Right now we're doing 2-3 20 minute ice baths a day, 2 massages a day, and stretching. She's sometimes doing full gym practices and sometimes not doing any tumbling/landing stuff. We went to the doctor who said it's just Sever's and to keep on with what we're doing and rest as needed. I wonder if dd might also have some combination of bursitis and/or Achilles tendonitis too based on where and how it hurts her. She does not seem to be going through a growth spurt either in her feet or elsewhere. She's very small for her age and if anything I think she's falling even further behind her friends in both height and foot size.
So, I guess I have two questions:
1. Have you managed to get a child through heel pain of this severity with something like the protocol we are doing? Did it require time off completely from gym and how long? I am inclined to see if we can get through states and then take some time off if needed so that she can handle the increase in hours in the summer. If she stays as she is now I see no way she can do even 3 hours of gym a day, let alone 5.
2. Is there anything I'm missing in terms of dealing with this?
thanks.