Frequently,
adolescent males present with pain below the knee joint over a prominence on
the main bone of leg, the tibia. Some parents become apprehensive about
it.
The
prominence over the tibia is called tibial tuberosity, where the main ligament,
the patellar ligament that of the major thigh muscle of thigh called quadriceps
femoris is attached. The part is usually prominent a little than the adjacent
area, but sometimes it becomes more prominent, painful while walking and
painful to applied pressure.
This a form
of traction epiphysitis named as Osgood-Schlatters disease. Some rest to the
part and simple analgesics usually resolve it.
