This condition is benign and common and usually resolves when the growth plate has closed or during periods of less activity.

Foot radiographs are not needed to diagnose calcaneal apophysitis as the growth plate can look similar with or without pain.

Health professionals should only refer for imaging when the symptoms don't match with the usual presentation or there has been an injury that has resulted in heel pain.

Children who complain of this type of heel pain commonly are taller (may have just had a growth spurt) or heavier.

Because calcaneal apophysitis also occurs around puberty, it is thought that it is related to rapid growth and perhaps muscle tightness,[3][4] but this is not the case for all children.

Health professionals who also commonly treat this condition are podiatrists, physiotherapists, family medical doctors, paediatricians or orthopaedic surgeons.

Treatment may consist of one or more of the following: Sever's disease is not a serious condition and many children get better without needing health professional care.