Growing and sport Lesson 40 of the medicine course of Mova's primary school: 19 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: the lesson at school .
0 A growing child is not a small grown-up. 1 Near the ends of your long bones are growth plates, softer zones where new bone is made, and they keep working until about the late teens. 2 When you shoot up 8 cm in a year, your bones race ahead and your muscles and your brain's sense of where your feet are need time to catch up, so you may trip over the ball for a while. 3 Some sports aches belong to growing: a sore bump under the kneecap or sore heels can come from a tendon tugging on a growing spot. 4 They settle when growing stops, and a GP can help meanwhile. 5 Look at any Under-11 team photo: the tallest kid might be 25 cm taller than the smallest, just because growth spurts start at different ages. 6 Messi was a small boy and became one of the greatest players ever, so judge players by skill, not size. 7 When bones grow fast, muscles and the brain's sense of body position need time to catch up, so many children are clumsy for a while during a growth spurt. 8 Children's long bones have growth plates near their ends; they are weaker than the bone around them, so pain near a joint after sport that doesn't settle should be seen by a doctor. 9 Most growth plates close in the late teens, at about 17 or so, and adults don't have open growth plates. 10 A sore bump just below the kneecap in sporty children of about 10 to 15 is often Osgood-Schlatter: a tendon pulling on a growing spot of the shin bone; it settles once growing finishes, though the bump may stay. 11 Heel pain in sport in children of about 8 to 14 is often Sever's disease, the Achilles tendon pulling on the heel's growth plate; rest, cushioned shoes and less running on hard ground help. 12 Growing pains are aches in both legs, usually in the evening or night and gone by morning; despite the name they aren't caused by bones growing. 13 Pain in only one leg, a limp, swelling, fever, or pain during the day is not ordinary growing pains and needs a doctor. 14 Children start growth spurts at different ages, so classmates of the same age can differ a lot in size, and late growers often catch up. 15 Children born early in the school year can be almost a year older than classmates; some academies now group young players by maturity rather than only age, called bio-banding. 16 As a boy, Lionel Messi was treated for a growth hormone problem and grew to about 1.70 m; Peter Crouch, at about 2.01 m, also played for England. 17 Every body size can do sport: gymnast Simone Biles is about 1.42 m, and Muggsy Bogues played in the NBA at about 1.60 m. 18 Bigger, heavier bodies are a real strength in some positions, like rugby forwards such as a prop; teasing someone about their size is never OK. ← previous Sore the next day, stretching and rest daysnext → Football: positions, rules and scoring↑ back to Medicine This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/40-growing-and-sport/