{"id":3150,"date":"2018-08-06T12:22:13","date_gmt":"2018-08-06T12:22:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radianthealth.us\/2018\/08\/06\/childhood-growing-pains-myth-or-real\/"},"modified":"2018-08-06T12:22:13","modified_gmt":"2018-08-06T12:22:13","slug":"childhood-growing-pains-myth-or-real","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radianthealth.us\/es\/2018\/08\/06\/childhood-growing-pains-myth-or-real\/","title":{"rendered":"Childhood Growing Pains: Myth Or Real?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-539 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/radianthealth.us\/files\/2018\/08\/childhood-growing-pains-resized.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/strong>Medical science is divided on whether the physical act of our bodies growing can cause pain.<\/p>\n<p>There doesn\u2019t seem to be any scientific basis for the claim, but the reality is that lots of kids between the ages of five and thirteen experience pain, primarily in their legs, and that pain stops when they get a bit older and stop growing.<\/p>\n<p>Even if there\u2019s ultimately some other cause, and the growth process itself isn\u2019t responsible, it seems clear enough that there\u2019s a connection. So for our purposes, we\u2019re going to say yes, growing pains are real.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re a parent, this probably comes as no surprise, as you\u2019ve likely been kept up at night by your child, who\u2019s whimpering or crying because their legs hurt.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, there\u2019s not much you can do beyond treating the immediate symptom, and we\u2019ll give you three tips for doing that next.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Massage <\/strong>\u2013 The pain your child is feeling is centered in their muscles, not their bones or joints. So, standard massage techniques will do a lot to help reduce the pain.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Alternate Ice and Heat<\/strong> \u2013 As with any other form of muscle strain, alternating between ice and heat will help reduce swelling and alleviate the pain.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Encourage Stretching<\/strong> \u2013 This one might be a bit harder to pull off, depending on how much pain your child is in. It could be the case that they\u2019re hurting too much to engage in any kind of stretching, but if you can coax them into it, it will definitely help.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The good news is that even if your child experiences growing pains during the night, they\u2019ll pass by morning.\u00a0 Even so, it\u2019s never pleasant to watch your child suffering.\u00a0 Fortunately, there are a few simple things you can do that will help ease their pain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-539 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/radianthealth.us\/files\/2018\/08\/childhood-growing-pains-resized.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/>Medical science is divided on whether the physical act of our bodies growing can cause pain. There doesn\u2019t seem to be any scientific basis for the claim, but the reality &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radianthealth.us\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radianthealth.us\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radianthealth.us\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radianthealth.us\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radianthealth.us\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/radianthealth.us\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3150\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radianthealth.us\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radianthealth.us\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radianthealth.us\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}