How to treat leg pain

Painful feelings of legs — a thing unpleasant: quickly you are tired, you refuse to yourself walk, sports activities or outdoor games. Besides, symptoms can testify to some difficult, and sometimes and dangerous diseases. Today we will consider this problem in detail: symptoms, diagnostics and treatment.

What represents leg pain

The complex of the symptoms which are shown painful feelings, various on character, in the lower extremities are, speaking language of physicians, leg pain.

It can be the pricking sharp flash pulling or the aching pain, a spasm. Distinguish also periodic and constant painful feelings.

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There are these symptoms as a result of diseases of various systems of an organism (vascular, endocrine, nervous). Injuries of extremities (dislocation, stretching, a fracture, a bruise) are followed by painful feelings.

Possible reasons

The list of the causes of unpleasant syndromes is very impressive:

atherosclerosis of vessels;
gout;
arthritis;
arthrosis;
varicosity;
thrombophlebitis;
sciatica;
osteomyelitis;
osteoporosis;
diabetes;
flat-footedness;
injuries.

Atherosclerosis of vessels is an illness at which walls of vessels are narrowed, complicating blood current to muscles. The patient at the same time experiences painful reductions in gastrocnemius muscles, in fingers, shins. The symptom of cold foot — feeling of cold of an extremity, in the absence of the corresponding temperature influence is possible. Often there are night attacks, strong fatigue after overcoming not it considerable distance on foot.

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At arthrosis, arthritis and gout the joints lose flexibility, inflame, the forced lameness can become result. The nature of pain can have changeable character, can amplify after walking, the long time spent in a standing position or sitting. The feeling can also be pulling or sharp. Around a joint the hypostasis of inflammatory character with skin reddening can be formed around.

The varicosity is caused by density of blood and its stagnation in veins, because of it the strong pressure causing pain, weight, fatigue, hypostasis of feet is put upon walls of vessels. Symptoms smooth out if some time to take legs on the height.

Problems with veins as a result can lead to formation of blood clot. At the same time temperature increase, the pulsing pain, hypostasis, morbidity at touch, reddening on skin is possible.

Inflammation of a sciatic nerve or sciatica is followed by burning, numbness, cold sense and pain in the area from the nerve to heels. The state is explained by jamming of the nervous terminations, such situation is possible also at vertebral hernias.

Sharp painful flashes can be caused by osteomyelitis — the infection affecting a bone tissue. Spasms and spasms characterize osteoporosis — bone tissue thinning. Fans of coffee, tobacco and women with a lack of weight after forty years are especially subject to osteoporosis.

Hypostases, spasms, prickings in extremities can accompany diabetes. The state by night spasms, drying and peeling of skin standing is aggravated.

At flat-footedness feet suffer, because of their deformation as a result of a disease the center of gravity when walking and vertical position is displaced. The sensation of pain appears from behind it in the tense gastrocnemius muscles, sometimes gives to knees and hips.

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Injuries depending on severity are followed by hematomas, hypostases, numbness, a pulsation and the aching feeling in the place of a trauma, change of color of an integument is possible.

It is important! If any diagnosis is made to you or there is a suspicion of a disease, it is not necessary to delay the address to the doctor. At insignificant problems it is possible to manage small actions — massage, physical therapy or use of special ointments and gels.

The undertaken measures

You should not suffer and disregard disturbing signs, the further to start a disease, the it will acquire big consequences. Therefore it is necessary to visit the doctor for diagnostics and to take measures for treatment of an illness.

Decrease in pain

Without knowing the cause of pain, it is possible to facilitate it for a while by means of the following actions and means:

baths from grass infusions (linden, a plantain, coltsfoot);
cold compresses (at hypostases);
medical soothing gels and ointments.

At varicosity special stockings, easy gymnastics in the mornings (rotation by foot), cold douches help to lower symptoms. At flat-footedness the wearing orthopedic footwear with special insoles, massage of feet helps.

At a convulsive spasm the leg needs to be relaxed as much as possible: the more you strain muscles, the stronger twists a spasm. Softly pull on yourself a sock, try to warm up the cramped muscle pats, grinding. Well the cold lotion or a compress helps.

At a bruise and stretching it is possible to remove an indisposition by means of a cold compress, to apply a hard bandage. Later it is necessary to see a doctor for specification of the diagnosis.

Important! Frequent spasms — an occasion to visit the doctor: it can be a neurologic, endocrine, infectious disease or the shortage of useful substances (vitamin D, calcium, magnesium).

Diagnosis of pain

Considering quantity of diseases, after visual inspection and on the basis of set of symptoms the following methods of hardware diagnostics are appointed the doctor:

Ultrasonography of veins;
MPT;
angioskanirovaniye (research of veins and vessels);
X-ray of joints;
arthroscopy (pass surgery for survey of joints by means of the camera);
blood test;
densitometry (research of a bone tissue).

During diagnostics, additional consultations can be necessary:

endocrinologist;
phlebologist;
neurologist;
orthopedist;
infectiologist;
rheumatologist.

Treatment

Treatment is appointed only by the doctor, methods of treatment depend on the diagnosis. Among remedies and procedures there is following:

blockade by anesthetics (the temporary help at strong spasms);
nonsteroid resolvents;
analgetics (tablets, injections);
miorelaksant (for muscular relaxation);
vasodilating medicines;
anticoagulants (the means diluting blood);
vitamin and mineral complexes;
manual therapy;
physical therapy.

Prevention and leg care

The main preventive measure — a healthy lifestyle:

lack of the addictions increasing risk of cardiovascular and neurologic diseases;
regular physical activities for strengthening of muscles of a back, an abdominal press, legs;
healthy food.

Physical exercises, even 15 minutes a day, will help to keep the weight and muscles in a tone, will strengthen a cardiac muscle, will improve blood circulation in an organism, problems with a backbone will warn.

Consumption of useful food reduces risks of diabetes, endocrine diseases, problems with joints because of a lack of vitamins and minerals. From time to time the course of reception of a vitamin and mineral complex will be useful.

For risk reduction to lose health it is regularly necessary to support itself in good physical shape. Consider how it is correct to do exercise for flexibility, from stoop how to pump up a triceps, a side press, the lower press, a bottom, a biceps, hands and legs.

In everyday life, at work, after long pastime in situation sitting, it is necessary to make easy warm-up to warm up stagnant muscles and to improve a blood-groove. Working sitting, cover a rigid seat with a flat pillow to avoid pinching of a sciatic nerve. If on work you have to stand long, try to change situation from time to time and to warm up legs, in breaks try to place them on height that there was an outflow of blood from extremities.

When choosing footwear for every day give preference to a convenient block on low to the course, the low heel, but steady is possible. Foot should not be clamped, it has to adopt the natural provision in footwear.

Whether you know? At excavation of the most ancient parking the archeologists found the remains of the most ancient footwear. It was made of skin of an animal, and the age of a find is determined time of Ice Age, by about 5,000,000 years.

Exercises for an extension

Let's consider three simple exercises which will help to stretch and bring into a tone of a muscle of legs on all their length.

Exercise for feet:

Adopt the provision lying on a back, legs together, 90 degrees are lifted at an angle.
To pull socks of feet on itself, to weaken.
Rotation of feet in one and in other party.
Socks look at you, to part them in the parties, to reduce back.
Repetition of each part on five times.

These exercises will help to stretch a linking of feet, gastrocnemius muscles, a calcaneal sinew and femoral muscles. Besides, in such situation there is a blood outflow that, in principle, improves its circulation. If it is heavy to you to hold legs in such situation, it is possible to settle on a rug near a wall, to operet legs on a wall.

To preserve physical and mental health, examine in what advantage and as it is correct to carry out push-ups from a floor, an extension, a birch, a level, burp (berp), a handstand, a squat with a bar on shoulders, a twine and a press of dumbbells on an inclined bench.

We stretch calves:

Get up facing a wall, lean on it the palms put in the lock, directly in the face of.
Rest a forehead against the lock from hands.
To bend the left leg in a knee, the sock looks in a wall.
The right leg direct, is put forward back, on one line from left, a sock forward.
Smoothly incline the case to the support, practically resting the left knee against a wall.
Repeat the same with change of legs.

Thus, stretch a gastrocnemius and kambalovidny muscle of a shin. At this exercise it is important not to tear off a heel from a floor, not to do sharp inclinations and not to displace socks of legs. If you feel the strong tension of calves, it is possible to bend slightly warmed-up leg in a knee.

Bicycle:

To adopt the provision lying on a back.
Knees are bent, shins are parallel to a floor.
To make serial movements by legs, to extend forward — to return to SP, as when driving the bicycle.

These actions will tighten calves, a calcaneal sinew, a two-headed femoral muscle, but also will favorably influence work of coxofemoral joints. The main condition — completely to straighten a leg and to draw in smoothly, it is not necessary to hurry: the more slowly the movement, the more load of a muscle and the better it is studied.

Whether you know? The unusual record was entered in the Guinness Book of Records: Englishman Maxwell Dai managed to twist the legs in the opposite direction by 157 degrees. The video by the record-holder teenager was exposed in worldwide network and in the first day gained 70 thousand viewings.

Leg pains disturb any person from time to time, a problem is not the feeling, but its reason. If it is just fatigue from long walk or from sports activities, then small rest or the weakening massage will solve a problem without consequences. It is worse if any disease is a source. Therefore you are not lazy to care for yourself and if necessary see a doctor.

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Reviews of users of network of pains in legs

I have a varicosity though I am not forty years old yet. At the same time legs terribly hurt (the doctor told that legs often hurt at varicosity and I not only suffer). Prompt who knows, please, how to remove a painful symptom at varicosity and in general - who as struggled with this illness? In advance big - big - many thanks!

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