![]() ![]() ![]() If only part of the growth plate is damaged and stops working, the bone may grow in an uneven way. Growth arrest can permanently stop a bone’s development and change how it functions. This serious problem is called a growth arrest. If the growth plate is damaged by a fracture or another injury, the bone may stop growing. Often, these points are near the ends of the bone. In every child’s and teen’s bones, growth occurs at specific points called growth centers or growth plates. But some fractures that look simple to treat can cause serious problems for children or teens and affect the bone’s ability to grow. This process is called remodeling.īecause of remodeling, a young person’s broken bone will heal better and with less treatment than a similar break in an adult. About half of all boys and a quarter of all girls break a bone sometime before adulthood.Ĭhildren are flexible, so their bones may bend after a break. This is not a common cause of fractures.įractures are very common in children and teens. This is usually due to holes in the bone (bone cysts) or certain bone conditions, such as brittle bone disorder (osteogenesis imperfecta), in which bones break easily. Pathologic fractures occur because the bone is weaker than normal.Stress fractures can happen when a child or teen repeats the same position or motion over and over for long periods of time.The bone gets more force than it is able to handle, and it breaks. Traumatic fractures occur due to injury, such as falling while running, biking or riding a skateboard.Open fractures are breaks in which the bone sticks through the skin.Simple fractures are breaks or cracks in the bone that do not break through the skin.Damage to growth plates or soft tissues may affect the way doctors treat your child’s fracture. Older children tend to get breaks during sports or other active play.Īn injury that breaks a bone may also damage a child’s growth plates or soft tissues that are near the bone or connect to the bone, such as skin, ligaments or tendons.In toddlers, breaks often happen when the tip of their finger gets caught in a door.The child hits (or is hit by) something hard.Their hand gets twisted, bent or smashed.Children and teens may break their finger or thumb bones (phalanges, fah-LAN-jeez), their wrist bones (carpals) or the long bones between their fingers and their wrist (metacarpals). ![]()
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