Originally Posted by Flyin'Dutch'
Kids don't limp other than for good reasons. Limping kid = Xray. Not to investigate this is dicey.
As for putting it on. Any kid that limps for a second day after a night's sleep has a problem until the contrary is proven.
Agree, but do look for obvious things like thorns and verrucas!
The late great clinician Richard Asher had a wonderful story about a weeping, limping child with a scissors-gait, whose symptoms miraculously improved one her knickers had been removed (she had both legs in the same opening...)
As I said, "kids of that age don't have the ability for sustained deception" and I think it's true. They certainly do have the ability to sustain phantom companions and the like for long periods, but that's another story.
Clinical diagnosis is a wonderful art that is hardly taught anymore. To be really good demands an enormous depth of knowlege and the nose of a Sherlock Holmes. I was lucky enough to be taught by some of the grand masters of yesteryear and I hope a bit rubbed off!
