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Hip Pain in Children

Hi, everyone!  I am posting this to try to bring awareness to an uncommon, but severe, childhood disorder called Legg-Calve-Perthes Disease.  Unlike what the name may suggest, this condition is not a disease in the fact that one can contract it from another.  Rather it is a bone disorder that affects children. This disorder (I refuse to call it "disease") is generally discovered in children under the age of 9.  It affects both girls and...
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