Pain in the legs when walking

Pain in the legs when walking is familiar, perhaps, with rare exception to each of us. If people of old age used to complain about it, now among middle-aged people who turn to doctors with similar complaints, even middle-aged people, or even very young ones, 20-25-year-olds are more and more often. The heaviness and pain can arise both during walking and at rest.

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Diseases that cause leg pain when walking

The type of pain, their intensity and frequency can vary significantly, depending on the cause that caused the pain. Among the most common causes of unpleasant sensations can be identified:

• Osteochondrosis.
• Sciatica.
• Gout.
• Osteoarthritis.
• Neurogenic lameness.
• Venous / true intermittent claudication.
• Lumbago.
• Flat feet.
• Osteochondrosis

This disease is a violation of intervertebral discs, joints, tissues of the spine. People are subject to it after 30-35 years, however, in some cases, it affects teenagers. In osteochondrosis, patients often feel pain in the spine, which is accompanied by numbness of the limbs, most often the left side suffers, then there is pain in the legs when walking. Also, patients feel unwell, quickly get tired at work. In the treatment, various methods are used: laser therapy, electrostimulation, acupuncture, manual therapy, and be prepared for a course of procedures that includes up to 15 sessions.

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Sciatica

This is an inflammation that affects the sciatic nerve. The symptom here is intense pain in the back of the thigh, and patients can also feel weakness, numbness of the limbs, and tingling in them. Painful sensations only increase with the appearance of a cold, for example, when coughing. The causes of sciatica may be intervertebral hernia, arthritis, various trauma, hypothermia, and transmitted infectious diseases. As a rule, anesthetics, anti-inflammatory drugs, a course of physiotherapy, and bed rest are used to treat sciatica.

Gout

It occurs most often in people after 40 years, it is associated with excessive accumulation in the body of salts of uric acid. Often seizures are accompanied by redness of the skin of the foot, a significant increase in temperature, intense pain. To cause illness or disease a wrong delivery, the use of alcohol in considerable quantities, a diabetes, an arthritis. This disease, alas, refers to the incurable: it is impossible to completely get rid of it after the onset of the first signs. However, a proper diet, bed rest, blood purification procedures can help in the fight against gout. Sometimes doctors resort to a surgical method.

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Osteoarthritis

Pain in the leg during walking can cause damage to the knee, metatarsophalangeal joints, the first toe of the foot. At the same time, especially increasing sensations when walking, can calm down in a calm state. Over time, it is possible to limit the movement of affected joints. For the treatment of the disease, physiotherapy, therapeutic massage, anti-inflammatory drugs, and reduction of exercise are used.

Neurogenic lameness

This disease usually occurs in the stronger sex after 40-45 years, engaged in heavy physical work, constantly subjected to stress. Painful sensations in such cases can spread throughout the leg, especially acutely pain will be felt in the knee area. Also among the common complaints is fatigue and fatigue. As a rule, at rest the pain subsides. For diagnosis, use magnetic resonance imaging, myelography. Treatment consists in the use of anti-inflammatory drugs, the use of electrophoresis, therapeutic massage, methods of manual therapy, as well as a significant reduction in the amount of physical work.

Venous / true intermittent claudication

In the case of venous lameness, the pain is felt due to the outflow of blood from the limbs. The pain thus extends on all leg, is accompanied by cramps, constantly subsides at the termination of movement. Relief comes with a show of legs.

True intermittent claudication also occurs due to lack of blood, atherosclerosis. Typical in this case fatigue, pain in the thigh, shin, cooling feet, problems with walking for long distances. Treatment in these cases is different physiotherapy, rest in a sanatorium, sometimes even surgical methods are used.

Lumbago

This is called severe back pain, which accompanies pain in the legs when walking. It causes her defeat of the femoral nerve, In this case, unpleasant sensations do not weaken when you stand or sit. To ease the condition, you can lie on a hard surface by lifting or bending your legs. Especially popular here is the use of reflex methods of treatment.

Flat-footedness

This deformation of the foot is one of the common causes of fatigue that occurs when walking. In order to reduce pain, doctors recommend using orthopedic insoles, as well as daily exercise.

In a world where there is so much movement, the pain in the legs when walking is almost inevitable. However, make sure that it does not develop into a chronic problem, give your body maximum attention - and you can avoid any problems!

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