The most common cause of adolescent heel pain is calcaneal apophysitis also known as Sever’s disease. Sever’s disease, Osgood Schlatter’s disease (tibial tuberosity) and Sinding-Larsen Johansson syndrome (distal patella) are all overuse syndromes brought about by repetitive submaximal loading and microtrauma. They are, however, entirely self-limiting and resolve at skeletal maturity or earlier. Careful assessment is required to differentiate them from other rare pathologies.