Hi Alison, you wouldn't mind telling me what PSWD stands for... (silly non-english trained European PTs...) EGO Switzerland (see below) Alison Dakin schrieb: > In my experience Osgood Schlatters is a very painful, but self > limiting condition and that the only treatment we can offer is advice > & reassurance (to child AND parents) on stretches and activity > adaptation if necessary. Ultrasound, PSWD etc only offer tempoarary > releif if anything and I too would be concerned about applying these > techniques over growth plates. -- Erik Goossens Dipl. PT SRK - PT Educator Akad. TvdL Landquart / CH Physiotherapie Erik Goossens GmbH / MediFIT Medical Reconditioning CH-4102 Binningen - Switzerland VISIT US AT : http://www.medi-fit.ch