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Practice Reading: Fill in the Blanks (Dropdown) ID: #45866 Growing pains
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The  term  "growing  pains"  is  often  used  to  refer  to    or  aching  limbs  in  children.  According  to  a  2007  review,  it  is  the  most  common  cause  of  bone  or  muscle  pain  in  adolescents.  Some  studies  estimate  it  affects  more  than  one-third  of  kids.  Yet  for  all  this,  there  is  no  clear    of  what  growing  pains  are,  or  what  causes  them.  In  fact,  they  may  not  be  related  to  growth  at  all.  A  recent  analysis  of  studies  about  growing  pains  notes  that  the    majority  of  papers    93  per  cent    make  no  mention  of  how  the  symptoms  of  bone  or  muscle  pain  are  related  to  growth.  "Kids  and  teens  are  being  told  they  have  growing  pains,  but  that  is  inaccurate  based  on  our  findings,"  says  Mary  O'Keefe  at  the  Institute  for  Musculoskeletal  Health  at  the  University  of  Sydney  in  Australia.  "If  a  health  professional  is  giving  a  diagnosis,  it  needs  to  be  based  on    evidence.  They  need  to  be  sure  that  growing  is  the  cause,  but  we  don't  know  this,"  says  O'Keefe.

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