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9 year old with bad back
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From the ages of 9 until about 13 I suffered from a very bad back. It literally started when I woke up one day, and it used to lock whilst I was walking so that I couldn't move.
My mum took me to doctor after doctor and none of them knew what it was. Eventually I was referred to a specialist and was told that it was simply growing pains. Apparently if your body grows at an unusual pace(at around this age); your bones are growing faster than your muscles, etc. causing the pain. I was given physiotherapy on a weekly basis at the hospital which helped a lot.
Your son will probably be offered an X-ray, if it's going to be something difficult to diagnose, which is something I was not offered as it can interfere with the female reproductive organs.
I'm now 21 and 6', but have always been tall for my age.
My brother who is now 13, also started to get pains in his back which his football seemed to make worse. He was told the same thing but by a different doctor. It does semm to be easing as he gets older though.
I hope this helps, kags.
My son injured his back very severly when he was 11 and it turned out to be a spondolythesis?? sp whih is a sort of stress fracture to the spine and was in hospital for a few weeks with it. What was particularly alarming was that he was still up and walking about complaining of having hurt himself doing gymnastics just feeling more and more pain and discomfort.Get him checked out if I were you, at the hospital if necessary as if w'd left our son he could well have ended up permanantly injured.
Kids can get back problems just as well as adults!
Find a good cranial osteopath. Ask at your local independant health food store, they are bound to know the best local one!
My son complained he felt one arm was longer than the other, as well as varoius aches. One hand was indeed a whole an inch further forward than the other! Mainly caused by carrying a heavy school bag on one shoulder, but also by falling out of trees, off bicycles,all the usual childhood stuff - and of course by being born, which apparently causes some for of damage to over 80% of babies.
The difference after treatment was amazing, he also grew noticeably having been small for his age previously.