VELOCITY GROWTH

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The concept of velocity, or incremental, growth is difficult for some to grasp, perhaps because of a deeply embedded misconception that a baby starts to grow and does so steadily through the seven ages of man. But the rate or speed of growth is clearly not constant, nor are its inconstancies themselves constant in all individuals. The changes that occur in any growing child can only be revealed if growth is seen as a varying continuum. Therefore, we must not only study growth velocity and show how much this varies at various ages, what patterns of growth are being revealed by this approach, and what they can tell us about the growth of pediatric patients.

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