Growing Pain in Children Review

Growing pains (GP) is the most common form of episodic childhood musculoskeletal pain1, 2. Medical science is still unable to fully explain the exact causes of the discomfort experienced by up to one –third of all children at some time during early childhood.1,2, 3. The Hallmark of growing pain, first it always affects both legs, always gone in morning.3. It is very common and easy to diagnose once the typical clinical characteristics are presented. The natural history is benign with disappearance of most attacks of pain by adolescence. However it is not clear whether some of these children develop symptoms of other noninflammatory pain syndromes 2, 4.In this review described the clinical presentation,pathogenesis, causes, natural course, and alleviating the family’s anxiety.