Helping young athletes recover, grow and perform.

Pain during a growth spurt is common and usually manageable, but "growing pains" is not a plan. Most growth-related pain settles well when training load is adjusted and strength work is added. What matters is knowing which pattern you are dealing with, and watching for the warning signs that need a face-to-face assessment.

Often, in some form. Complete rest tends to settle pain for a week or two and then it returns, because nothing has been built in the meantime. Most young athletes do better reducing the parts of training that flare things up, keeping what they tolerate, and adding strength work alongside.

Look at the whole week, not one session: club, school, matches and any extra training. Pain that settles quickly and does not carry into the next day usually means the load was manageable. Pain that lingers the following morning is the signal to pull the load back a little.

It depends on the condition, how long it has been going on and how much they play. Growth-related pain often takes six to twelve weeks of consistent work to settle and rebuild capacity. Anyone promising a fixed timeline is guessing.

Yes, when it is coached and progressed properly. Well-supervised resistance training in young athletes is supported by the research and is one of the better things you can do for their long-term health and injury risk. It is the loading spikes and lack of strength that tend to cause problems, not the strength work itself.

By what their body is doing, not by the calendar. Each stage of the framework has criteria: symptoms behaving predictably, strength work being tolerated, then impact and running being tolerated. If a stage still feels hard, staying there longer is the right call.

Most growth-related pain is diagnosed from the story and a physical assessment, not imaging, and scans in young athletes often show normal changes that can worry families unnecessarily. Imaging is useful when specific red flags are present, and that is a decision for the clinician assessing them.

Recurring pain usually means the underlying capacity was never rebuilt, or training load climbs faster than their body adapts. That is the gap the strength, impact and sport-capacity work is designed to close.

See a clinician in person if there was a significant injury or trauma, if they cannot weight bear, if there is night pain, unexplained weight loss, fever, or swelling and heat around a joint, if pain is getting steadily worse, or if you are simply worried. Our content and frameworks are education and exercise support, not a diagnosis.

The free guide helps you understand the condition: what it is, why it happens, what makes it worse, when to get them assessed, and how our three stages work. The £59 framework gives you the structure: a six-week format with phases, load and pain guidance, progression criteria, impact and sport-capacity progressions, demonstrations and checklists.

The £59 recovery framework is condition-specific and the same for everyone who buys it, and you work through it yourselves. The £395 option is twelve weeks built around your athlete after a 1:1 video assessment, with bi-weekly physio check-ins, changes as they progress, message access, the exercise video library and return-to-sport screening.

No. Everything is written for parents, with coaching points, sets, reps and video demonstrations. Your job is to help them stay consistent, not to coach it perfectly.