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Osgood-Schlatter's disease - Management
Basis for recommendation
Differentiating knee pain with systemic symptoms, knee pain without systemic symptoms, and traumatic knee pain
- The usefulness of differentiating knee pain into these categories to aid diagnosis is based on expert opinion published in guidelines on the assessment and management of knee pain and swelling [University of Michigan Health System, 2005].
Clinical features of the common differential diagnoses of knee pain
- These are based on commonly observed symptoms and signs of these conditions published in authoritative texts and expert review articles [Houghton, 2007; Davidson et al, 2008].
When to investigate children with knee pain
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