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- Part 3 Clinical Notes on Disorders of Childhood
- Introduction
- 1 History-Taking
- 2 Physical Examination
- 3 A Note on Temperature and the Importance of Charts
- 4 The Nose and Throat
- 5 The Heart, with Special Reference to Rheumatic Carditis
- 6 Rheumatic Fever
- 7 The Rheumatic Clinic
- 8 Active Heart Disease
- 9 Growing Pains
- 10 Arthritis Associated with Emotional Disturbance
- 11 Fidgetiness
- 12 A Note on Normality and Anxiety
- 13 Anxiety (<i>continued</i>)
- 14 Disease of the Nervous System
- 15 Walking
- 16 Mental Defect
- 17 Convulsions, Fits
- 18 Micturition Disturbances
- 19 Masturbation
- 20 Speech Disorders
(p. 235) Growing Pains
(p. 235)
Growing Pains
- Chapter:
- (p. 235) Growing Pains
- Author(s):
Donald W. Winnicott
- DOI:
- 10.1093/med:psych/9780190271336.003.0051
Chapter 9 of Clinical Notes on Disorders of Childhood. In this chapter, Winnicott restates his belief that growing pains are not rheumatic and quotes a range of other medical authorities who hold the same view.
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- Part 3 Clinical Notes on Disorders of Childhood
- Introduction
- 1 History-Taking
- 2 Physical Examination
- 3 A Note on Temperature and the Importance of Charts
- 4 The Nose and Throat
- 5 The Heart, with Special Reference to Rheumatic Carditis
- 6 Rheumatic Fever
- 7 The Rheumatic Clinic
- 8 Active Heart Disease
- 9 Growing Pains
- 10 Arthritis Associated with Emotional Disturbance
- 11 Fidgetiness
- 12 A Note on Normality and Anxiety
- 13 Anxiety (<i>continued</i>)
- 14 Disease of the Nervous System
- 15 Walking
- 16 Mental Defect
- 17 Convulsions, Fits
- 18 Micturition Disturbances
- 19 Masturbation
- 20 Speech Disorders