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Essentially, when you're growing, your bone starts out as cartilage and turns to hard bone. That is a process that occurs throughout your growing years.
Those growth areas are made out of cartilage. Well, cartilage is weaker than bone, so typically, if you're going to end up breaking a structure, it's going to break at the weakest area. That weak area is the cartilage. That's why growth areas are injured very often compared to regular, standard fractures.
Every growth plate in the body is going to have its own characteristic, and so it's going to behave differently. They don't all grow the same. They don't all look the same.
When you have a fracture or a broken bone, a lot of times these are involved in that. Even if the injury is not through the growth area, it is into the bone, and it still does affect the growth. So, not a lot of people understand that.
Even a lot of non-pediatric orthopedists don't completely understand that well. Our group at Children's Hospital is really going to be careful and concerned about your child, and you're going to feel that when you come to see us.
Not only do we have the training, not only do we have the expertise, not only do we see all these children all the time that have these kinds of problems, but we are dedicated to making sure that you get the right treatment, all the time.