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By school age, children will have acquired an adult walking pattern but will still have a faster cadence (steps per minute) and slower velocity than an adult, and any deviation in the gait from the adult pattern should be regarded as a limp. In this age group, a painful limp must be investigated carefully as the causes include potentially serious conditions such as trauma, infection, inflammation, and tumor. A careful history may often point to the diagnosis. Children in this age group are usually good historians.
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Robb, J. (2015). The Child with a Painful Limp. In: Paediatric Orthopaedic Diagnosis. Springer, New Delhi. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-2392-4_31
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