Parents Stress Fracture Questions

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I wanted to update about this! My daughter saw the orthopedist today. There is no stress fracture! She said that the lines on her bones are (insert word that I already forgot here) which are caused by getting a high fever as a child and your bones temporarily stop growing (like a tree that has lines). Very interesting! She couldn't find anything wrong with her and thinks that it's either shin splints or growing pains. But she can practice as usual!

They are often called Harris lines. They represent metaphyseal growth arrest (basically you get areas of a little extra mineralization at the point of the growth plate when there is a halt in growth of the long bones). Whether these are pathologic, or just the result of variable growth patterns, is still somewhat debated.