T he limping child may present a significant challenge to the physician. In order to arrive at the correct diagnosis, the clinician must approach each patient in an organized fashion. In general, disorders that cause limping vary from age group to age group. This article will examine three different age groups relative to the disorders leading to gait disturbances. The three groups are toddlers...

A 6 year-old male is brought to the pediatric ED for evaluation of limping that has worsened over the last month. He has complained of intermittent right-sided hip pain with occasional limping over the last 6 months. The parents do not recall any history of trauma. They report that he had a cold during the last 6 months, but nothing out of the ordinary. He has had no fever and no weight loss. H...

Limping in children is a common complaint at pediatric, pediatric orthopaedic offices and in emergency rooms. There are several causes for this condition, and identifying them is a challenge. The older the patient, the better the anamnesis and more detailed the physical examination will be, enabling an easier medical assessment for searching the source of the disorder. In order to make the appr...

Limping is a symptom of varied diagnoses in children and adolescents and can present a difficult diagnostic challenge for primary care clinicians. A careful and systematic evaluation can shorten the long list of potential diagnoses to direct appropriate diagnostic tests to determine the cause of the problem. Trauma and infections are the most common causes of limping. Inflammatory conditions, d...

The article examines a legal phenomenon that has not received generalized characteristic, its research in international family law is fragmentary. reasons for the “lame” relationships are analyzed: differences conflict of laws regulation, incorrect application rules, discrepancy between substantive regulations, jurisdictions; it concluded result interaction laws, and procedural norms, leading t...

conclusions based on the findings, in case a child suffers from calf pain or gait disturbances during influenza outbreak, the possibility of bacm should be considered before performing laboratory tests, radiological examinations, or other investigations. introduction identification of the etiology of limping and gait disturbances in children necessitates accurate physical examination and histor...

A 13 year old girl presented with a two month history of recurrent episodes of arthritis of the metacarpophalangeal, wrist, knee, ankle, and metatarsophalangeal joints. The arthritis seemed to follow a migratory and symmetric pattern. The arthritis lasted for a week, resolved spontaneously, only to recur a few days later in another joint. Apart from having intermittent low grade fever, she was ...