Parents Severs Disease

[Dahlialover]

What have you seen work for Severs disease? My 10-year-old has been mostly out of the gym for 2.5 months due to gymnast’s wrist. I thought this long rest would also heal his severs but that’s not getting better either. He goes to gym a couple times per week and does a little floor (front tucks, layouts, and fulls) onto the resi mat. He can only tolerate a handful of reps before he’s limping around with heel pain.

I have briefly discussed the Severs with the PT and sports med doctor but it’s a bit of an afterthought because we are mostly there for his wrists (which are also not healing). The PT recommended heel lifts for his shoes and calf raises. The Sports med doctor gave us a paper with some exercises and told him to start wearing shoes at home. I got him Cheetah Cups to wear at gym but coach told him that they are unsafe for gymnastics. I have been using a massage gun on his calves and feet to work the soft tissue.

I’m wondering about other options: dry needling, shockwave therapy, red light, acupuncture, taping, insoles. I’m open to anything that is not outright quackery!

What have you seen work?

 

[GymnastMomX2]

Hey, we unfortunately have a lot of experience with this. We tried allll the things, PT, massage therapy, red light, icing, taping, x braces, heel cups. The only thing that helped her was massage therapy (but it was very temporary relief) and taping.

I taped both feet every day for months, it was the only thing that got her through her level 8 season. It uses 3 types of tape, and got kind of expensive, but it was very much worth it. She sometimes wore the cheetah heel cups over the tape if it was really bad, but they did nothing on their own.

Skip past the first bit about shin splints.


You need strapping tape - elastikon 3inch, It’s like sticky ace wrap
https://a.co/d/6gpIfaX

And then you need power flex tape to wrap over it.
https://a.co/d/6jpISlr

Oh and just regular sports tape for the anchors.

Her coaches used to joke that she looked like the LSU girls with her feet all taped up every day. Hope this helps!

 

[Dahlialover]

Hey, we unfortunately have a lot of experience with this. We tried allll the things, PT, massage therapy, red light, icing, taping, x braces, heel cups. The only thing that helped her was massage therapy (but it was very temporary relief) and taping.

I taped both feet every day for months, it was the only thing that got her through her level 8 season. It uses 3 types of tape, and got kind of expensive, but it was very much worth it. She sometimes wore the cheetah heel cups over the tape if it was really bad, but they did nothing on their own.

Skip past the first bit about shin splints.


You need strapping tape - elastikon 3inch, It’s like sticky ace wrap
https://a.co/d/6gpIfaX

And then you need power flex tape to wrap over it.
https://a.co/d/6jpISlr

Oh and just regular sports tape for the anchors.

Her coaches used to joke that she looked like the LSU girls with her feet all taped up every day. Hope this helps!

This is incredibly helpful because I was just shopping for tape!

 

[GymnastMomX2]

I really hope it helps, severs is the worst