If your child's been injured you may have learned about growth plates, but if not, you may not know what they are or why they are important. Growth plates help kids' bones grow and are key to their ...

Growth plate injuries, often mistaken for sprains, are common in children and adolescents and can affect bone development. These injuries occur at the ends of long bones and can result in stunted or ...

When children grow in length, it occurs from growth plates, a cartilage structure at both ends of the long bones found in the arms and legs. The growth plates contain special stem cells that ...

Growth-plate shoulder and elbow injuries are common in youth and adolescent baseball and softball players. The growth plate (epiphyseal plate or physis) is an area of cartilage at the end of a bone ...