Child complaining of leg pain. What can it be? - Dr. Mohan M R | Doctors' Circle

Dr. Mohan M R | Appointment booking number: 8022540900
Consultant Orthopedic Surgeon | Nano Hospitals, Hulimavu Bangalore
Child complaining of leg pain. The most important factor would be trauma it can be insignificant trauma or a significant trauma. It is the single most common cause in children. Of course there will be other causes of leg pain in children which might be a growing pin or might be an infection or due to some other rare cause of neoplastic or inflammatory diseases. By far and large it is due to trauma, especially the children may not remember about the antecedence of the incidence but careful examination and the temporal sequence of events in the patients pain character and examination will definitely let us know the cause of leg pain in children and simple radiological investigations like an x-ray can resettle the issue.