'Growing pains' a medical misnomer

A study has found no consistent medical definition of the 'growing pains' condition. (Bianca De Marchi/AAP PHOTOS) (AAP)

For more than 200 years, parents have dismissed childhood's mysterious aches and cramps as nothing more than growing pains.

But a new study by the University of Sydney has found the term "growing pains" is more of a medical misnomer than an actual clinical diagnosis.