Two Deer Creek Little League players back in action despite crippling disease

Since 2003 two boys from the Deer Canyon Little League have been stricken with a little known disease called Legg-Calve-Perthes disease. The syndrome is a degenerative disease of the hip joint. The disease is typically found in young children and small dogs, and it can lead to osteoarthritis in adults. The effects of Perthes can also sometimes continue into adulthood.

Two mothers, Leslie Burghardt, whose son, Sean, was stricken in 2003 and Melissa Patrick, whose son, Brent, was diagnosed in 2004, have shared their sons’ stories that brought them from wheelchairs to the Little League field.

Two Deer Creek Little League players back in action despite crippling disease