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Osgood-Schlatters disease

I was wondering if you could help me to find some permanent method of eliminating or at least reducing the pain caused by OSD becuase it seems that I have tried everything. I was diagnosed with this condition at the age of 9 and I am now 17 1/2. When I was 11 or so I had full length plaster casts for three weeks at a time and stopped my sport (swimming). When the casts came off the swelling had disappeared but within a week of just walking the pain and the swelling had returned. At the end of last year I went back to see my orthopedic surgeon and he suggested that I get orthodics because I had flat feet, which I did. He also told me that the growth plate on the tibia has closed and that there were some free pieces of bone in the knee that would probably smooth off. However, instead of getting better this problem has started to return to the way it was when I was nine years old. The main difference that I have noticed is that it has started to become painful even when resting, which is something that I have not experienced before. The lumps on the front of the knee have also begun to swell again.
As well as the knees I have also been having pain in my ankles and wrists. This is probably not related, but these joints are quite "loose" and I seem to be forever twisting ankles.
I was thinking that if I tried the plaster casts again it would be possible that the pain and lump might disappear, and because the growth plate was closed, it might not return.
If you have any information or advice on what I could do to manage this problem I would very much appreciate it.

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