As growing pains are a thing in adolescents, with bone, joint and muscle aches, why isn’t that pain also constantly present for infants and toddlers who are growing at a much faster rate with their bodies subject to greater developmental stresses?

Question

As growing pains are a thing in adolescents, with bone, joint and muscle aches, why isn’t that pain also constantly present for infants and toddlers who are growing at a much faster rate with their bodies subject to greater developmental stresses?

In: Biology

Answer 1

Growing pains aren’t actually a proven thing, as others have mentioned.

But I would like to add that babies have a completely different pain sensation that you are probably familiar with. Babies nerves are super juvenile, and underdeveloped for the most part. A lot of their nerves don’t even have myelin sheaths yet (one of the reasons they can’t walk until they are 1-2). So it’s possible that babies don’t sense the “growing pains”, if they exist.