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Dealing with Growing Pains

It’s not just a television sitcom from the 1980s! (I won’t mention my crush on Kirk Cameron, either!) Growing pains are actually a quite common phenomenon in children. I don’t remember suffering from them when I was a child — did you? Growing pains occur most often in the legs. They are often felt after strenuous play or exercise (maybe that’s why I didn’t have them — I wasn’t much of an athlete as a kid). A child may experience growing pains during two periods of development: between the ages of three and five and between the ages of eight … Continue reading →

More Pains of Walking

You can’t beat a walk for an easy, gentle form of exercise. But even the gentlest form of exercise can cause problems. A pain in your toe, heel, or calf can mean different things. Does walking leave you with a pain in your lower back? You may be experiencing lumbar strain. Walking may not have caused the problem, but it can exacerbate an existing back strain. Protect your back by NOT leaning forward when you’re walking — especially if you are walking quickly or headed uphill. Keep your trunk strong and steady by using those abdominal muscles. Suck in your … Continue reading →

The Pains of Walking

Walking is a great, safe, easy, and gentle form of exercise. But walking injuries that seem innocent or unimportant can end up sidelining you! And if you can’t walk, you’re not doing much for your health. Once you get out of a regular fitness routine, it can be very hard to get back in. Feeling sore or tender on the bottom of your foot? You may be suffering from plantar fasciitis. The band of tissue that pads your foot is known as the plantar fascia. Walking in hard shoes or on hard surfaces like concrete can cause small tears in … Continue reading →

Growing Pains

When you are a parent writing about parenting issues, sometimes you don’t have to go in search of topics to write about, they come to you. Take Sunday night for instance. It was about 11 PM and I was working on an article that’s not due until the end of January but I like to finish far in advance in case something happens. Anyway, Tyler cries out in pain that his legs are hurting “bad, bad, bad.” He was on the verge of tears and I could tell by the expression on his face that he wasn’t pretending. Since I … Continue reading →