My 9 year old dd has just shown me that her ankle dislocates and she just pops the bone back in. She thought this was fairly normal. When I chatted with her she tells me it happens about once a week, mostly during PE. Her wrists do it too, making colouring tiring. When she was 3 to 6 she saw paediatrics regularly as she has a very weak core strength. And in turn weak fine motor skills. Physically she is about three years behind her peers.
Paediatrics have discussed dyspraxia and hypermobilty but have never been certain of either. After three years of appointments with hospital, OT and physio we sort of gave up as no diagnosis and we have understanding of the problem.
DD enjoys all sports at school, amazingly she has a personality that doesn't seem to mind always being last. She enjoys being in a team. She can just about ride a bike but stops after a couple of minutes, she has swimming and dancing lessons. She is very intelligent so she copes by concentrating on technique.
We have an appointment with hospital about dislocation. I am worried that it will just be more appointments and no diagnosis as before. It will worry my daughter and after physio we will end up as confused as before as to what if anything is the matter. Does anyone have any advice as to what I can ask the doctor? Please help as I have no one else I can really ask
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Dislocating bones
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Littlemissadequate · 12/11/2015 10:08
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