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Also called Osgood-Schlatter and not uncommon I think in kiddos in sports especially around growth spurts. Treatment is usually conservative (PT, ant-inflammatories, ice etc). Hope she feels better soon.
Be patient. According to my DD's orthopedist it can take months to heal. She was given stretches and PT to address it. After it didn't improve, an MRI was done and they found a stress fracture. So keep monitoring it and if there is no improvement go back to the doc.
My daughter is still coming good from that and competed at states and Nationals with it. The physio told us how to massage it and recommended training in compression leggings and putting a heat pack on it prior to training. He said that for some people stretching helps and for others it doesn't. They just have to manage the workload on it, particularly cutting back on vault and tumbling. It's been about five months but is almost gone now.
I'm sure she'll be fine. Our girl had to pull back a bit in training and then just ramp up in the lead up to competitions. She was probably diagnosed two weeks out from her major competition season and managed to compete well enough at regionals to qualify for states, and then to compete well enough at states to qualify for nationals. At nationals she won AA and on floor, so even though she had the injury it was possible to manage it around her competitions.Ugh! 5 months is so long! Eekk! The ortho seemed confident with the fact that her first unofficial meet isn't until November, with her official meet season starting January. I'm thinking the main concern is the exposed growth plate right now! Hopefully we will be cleared to tumble in a month or so. Oh dear!