Paediatric Sports Medicine
A 12-year-old basketball player presents with anterior knee pain localised to the inferior pole of the patella. The pain is worse with running, jumping, and going down stairs. On examination, there is point tenderness at the inferior patellar pole with pain on resisted knee extension. There is no effusion or instability. Regarding Sinding-Larsen-Johansson syndrome:
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Sinding-Larsen-Johansson (SLJ) syndrome is a traction apophysitis affecting the inferior pole of the...
Diagnosis is clinical with point tenderness over the inferior pole of the patella being pathognomoni...
SLJ is more common than Osgood-Schlatter disease; surgery is usually required for resolution; the co...
Treatment is conservative with activity modification, ice, stretching of quadriceps and hamstrings, ...
The differential diagnosis includes Osgood-Schlatter disease (tibial tubercle tenderness), patellar ...
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