Twelve Years of Hip Pain: Brian’s Experience With Legg-Calvé-Perthes Disease
It was almost Thanksgiving, and Brian was playing right guard for the Ocean City Hawks pee-wee football team. He was in sixth grade, about 12 years old, when we noticed he had developed a limp and was complaining about pain. At first, my wife and I figured it was probably football. Kids get banged up,…