I had knee issues, too, but not until my early teens when I was growing. It was called Osgood Schlotters disease. I grew this weird bump on the front of my knee, below the kneecap. It was really painful, and it seemed to have been partly from playing too much basketball & doing gymnastics at a young age.

Ah yes, the ol' Osgood Schlotters (so that's how it's spelled?). I seem to recall in the UK it was often considered as simply putting a name on growing pains. The thing is, I could differentiate between what I was feeling from my knee and growing pains I'd had on and off between about 8 and 15. With growing pains my legs would ache at night and keep me awake. Muscle issues really. With my knee I knew I'd worn something down and put an extra amount of strain on my knee beyond simply growing. I've never really got it thoroughly checked out. Just this past 2 weeks I've had some quite bad pain along with some really horrible, vulnerable feelings of weakness from my knee, almost certainly from starting to skip rope in the mornings (which I've now stopped).

Definitely not just growing pains, though I think it did have something to do with growing--something like you're growing faster than your joints can adjust to. But not just normal growing pains. I had it in one leg specifically and there's a bit of extra bone there. Pretty noticeable, actually.

my knees are giving me trouble again, too. It's hard to know what to do, as I think not exercising is bad, obviously, but starting up again can be painful, too.

Exactly! I decided I wanted to get properly fit again, like I was when I was younger, so I started skipping rope. Just can't do it. I think I'm going to stick with swimming for a while.

I'm thinking of one of these looks fun!

Yep, it's supposed to be relatively low impact.

Yep, it's supposed to be relatively low impact.

So to update:

The master took him to the doc last night, (same doc that delivered him who sees all my kids about everything, so he knows them pretty well)

He told us for the time being keep and eye out and if he develops constant or acute pain or experiences any difficulty walking to get right back to him - to use our gut feeling.

As for what he thinks, Max is a little bit knock-kneed and he believes that he perhaps does suffer from some strain in his knees due to that.

He manipulated Max's legs and from that could determine that is WASN'T any of the scary things we had imagined. He could bend his knees without any pain or discomfort, and his pain ISN'T worse during some parts of the day to others.

I'm still going to be vigilant and watch him very closely. My little guy is the happiest kid I know, I'm going to be listening very closely to things he tells me and ask him lots of questions!

wow... good to hear he is OK. My niece had pains too, she ended up getting a metal pin placed in her hip at the age of twelve, its considered a basic procedure but we were all concerned. She is 16 now and can dance and lives like a normal teen. I hope your son never has to have this surgery done, but if so, he should be fine.

Geez... kids certainly will bring out the grey hairs, eh?

So glad it doesn't seem something serious. Is Max still in pain? And what sort of fix is there for his knock knees?

his knock knees are so slight
http://farm4.static.flick...be72_o.jpg
(he is the littlest one)
I wouldn't imagine that they'd even consider treating him until he is officially school age. But looking even at this photo, it's not even to a worrisome degree.

wow... good to hear he is OK. My niece had pains too, she ended up getting a metal pin placed in her hip at the age of twelve, its considered a basic procedure but we were all concerned. She is 16 now and can dance and lives like a normal teen. I hope your son never has to have this surgery done, but if so, he should be fine.

I had this surgery when I was 9. I barely remember it at all though

gosh really!?!?!

do you make the metal detector go off at the airport?

glad to hear it's not too serious. I always feel a little when it comes to your little one, I consider him my little buddy because of our conversations about potty training years ago.

that was his big brother Wally!
it got 3 of them

Geez... kids certainly will bring out the grey hairs, eh?

So glad it doesn't seem something serious. Is Max still in pain? And what sort of fix is there for his knock knees?