Symptoms of avascular necrosis of the femoral head in children

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Osteonecrosis of the femoral head in children is also called epiphyseal chondritis, aseptic necrosis of the femoral head or flat hip. It is a common and unexplained chondropathy in children. It usually occurs in children aged 2 to 12 years old. It begins with degeneration or necrosis, then regenerates or re calcifies, and finally necrosis of the femoral head. The symptom of child femoral head necrosis? Next, I'd like to share my views with you.

Symptoms of avascular necrosis of the femoral head in children

The onset is slow, the course of disease is long, intermittent claudication and knee, hip pain, pain often radiate to the inner thigh and knee, pain can be aggravated with the activity, relieve after rest. In some cases, the early symptoms were mild or asymptomatic, and some cases had a history of trauma.

When the knee joint is painful, there are tenderness points when pressing around the hip joint by hand. Let the child supine position, the affected limb up, less than 45 degrees, hip pain. Do "4" experiment: put the affected limb "4" shape on the contralateral thigh, press the knee down, when pressing, the hip joint has pain.

In the late stage, the symptoms gradually relieved and disappeared, the joint activity was normal or the residual abduction and internal rotation were limited, the greater trochanter was prominent, sometimes there were hip flexion or adductor contracture, muscle atrophy of thigh and leg, limb shortening and other deformities.

matters needing attention

Children should strengthen the consciousness of hip self-protection. Avoid trauma, in sports, we must do a good job in the protection of the hip, first do warm-up, to flexible limbs when the movement. When carrying and carrying heavy objects, avoid hip sprain and try not to bear too much weight.