Osgood Schlatter's Disease (OSD) is very common in
young adolescents and represents damage to the tendon to cartilage connection
on the bony prominence just below the knee cap. If it does not respond
quickly to sports limitation, it often leads to substantial alteration of sports
ability/participation for a year or more, affecting career development, athlete
confidence and self-esteem development and peer relationships for the
young athlete. It also causes chronic pain and sports limitations even in
adulthood in a substantial number of athletes as well as an obvious
deformity. The current OSD study is directed toward investigating the
potential to cure OSD early, to decrease the above
consequences.
The OSD study recruirtment was
in Rosario, Argentina.
Biomechanics Magazine in the April 2006 issue carried an aritcle explaining Osgood Schlatter Disease and the study underway in more detail. To see a pdf of that article, click here. --> Biomechanics OSD Article.pdf
For those with questions about the study, please email Dr. Reeves at DeanReevesMD@gmai.com