DD has had some trouble with her legs and feet for a little while. She has quite a prominent in-step on both feet, always has, it has been worse/better over the years at various stages, but never caused her pain, discomfort or affected her walking/running etc. Told as a young child by medical professionals to keep an eye as she grows but likely will grow out of it and also if it doesn't cause her problems it probably won't be addressed in any way.
Over the last few months, she has complained that her knees knock when she runs, and when playing some sports such as hockey her ankles have been hurting, more in her right leg/ankle. Also that her thighs hurt a little.
It's got worse over the last months, to the point that now when she walks, her feet turn very inwards (right in particular) after a while, and she can turn both ankles/feet completely the other way. After walking quite short distances she is in some pain and is starting to not want to do activities that require walking/running/moving.
Saw GP (locum) a couple of months ago who said it was perfectly normal and nothing to worry about. As it got worse, I took her back a couple of weeks ago, especially after she showed me how she could turn her feet backwards on themselves. GP has referred to physic for an assessment, but says he thinks its probably just that she has had a growth spurt and that her muscles/ligaments haven't caught up yet, so pulling her feet in slightly, and causing it to hurt. He said physio will check to see where the instep comes from (i.e., hips, knees or ankle themselves) and likely give her physio exercises to strengthen muscles/ligaments if it's what he thinks is the case.
He doesn't think it's joint hyper mobility syndrome as she can't bend her thumb backwards and has no hyper mobile joints anywhere else that we can tell.
She is off school today as her right ankle and lower leg is so painful she can't bear weight on it. It has been steadily building over the last few days, and by last night she was crying in pain, woke in the night with pain (not usual) and sobbed at the prospect of going to school (not usual for her either). It hurts to bear weight, but also to turn the ankle and move it - it hurts around the ankle and up the leg on the lower part of her lower limb. Her left leg hurts a little but nowhere near as bad as right leg.
Called physio today, they have a cancellation for tomorrow, and she is going in for that appt.
In the meantime, what can I do to help with the pain? She has been having calpol and ibuprofen alternating for the last few days, but by last night it didn't do a huge amount. Have used ice pack, which eased it a little.
Can I strap it? How would I do that? Anything else I can do to ease it for her? Didn't want to take her to docs today, as it's another locum who I saw myself this week and she was a bit useless to be honest so didn't see the point of taking her today.