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Sever's Program
This Lower Extremity Group (LEG) rehabilitation program will inform and help guide you and your child through this troublesome time.
Designed by a Podiatrist with over 20 years of experience in Sever's rehabilitation.
This rehab guide gives you complete progressive evidence-based rehabilitation for the treatment and management of Sever's Heel Pain in children.
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Why not help your child today and every day to manage their Sever's Heel Pain.
What do you receive?
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Your evidence-based daily Sever's management program is very easy for your child to follow and includes;
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Progressive neuromuscular isometric, concentric, and eccentric strengthening exercises
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Passive and dynamic stretching exercises
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​Myofascial massage exercises
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Plus more
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​Our experienced Podiatrist has taken these technical modalities and simplified them into easy to watch videos for your child to follow. ​
What is Sever's?
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Sever’s Heel Pain is a common childhood injury where the heel growth plate is sore and inflamed
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Pain in the heel growth plate is normally caused by the overuse of the Achilles and plantar foot muscles pulling in opposite directions to one another creating a traction load on the growth plate indicated in yellow to the right
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Sever’s heel pain is the number 1 childhood heel pain complaint
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Sever's is most common in active children aged between 9 and 14.
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Often it is a direct result of increased athletic behaviours or overload of sports training.
CALCANEAL APOPHYSITIS
Severs' Heel Pain
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Sever’s was first described in the medical literature by Warren Sever in 1912. It is also referred to as Calcaneal Apophysitis - We think Sever’s is much easier!!
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Within the rehab industry, there is much debate around the gold standard for the treatment of this paediatric heel pain condition.
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With little consensus around management, we decided to construct a 4-week rehab program that involves all modalities that have been indicated in the literature to be of help in the
management of Sever’s.
SEVER’S GROWTH PLATE PAIN
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Sever’s is quite painful during and after sports and the child may be seen visibly limping or running without pushing off.
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Some days will be better than others - and this is usually dependant on how much sports activity (load) the child has been involved in recently.
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Diagnostically a heel squeeze test can be used to confirm this and a plain Xray as shown to the side is sometimes utilised to rule out any other pathology.
