Leg pain can have very different origins. Most often, pain in the legs cause inflammatory and metabolic processes in the joints, and vascular disease of the lower extremities. In addition, the cause of pain in the legs can be intoxication - pain in joints and muscles often appear at various acute infectious diseases.

Pain in the legs as a result of inflammation of the joints

Inflammation of the joint arthritis or multiple joints (arthritis) of the lower extremities causing severe pain in the legs. At the same time the skin over the affected joint becomes red, swells, becomes hot to the touch.

A feature of inflammatory joint pain is their gain during prolonged immobility of joints. Inflammatory pain intensified late at night and early in the morning and make the patient to move, to reduce pain. Such pains are associated with the accumulation in the joint cavity inflammation products that irritate nerve endings. When driving the impact of toxic products on the joint and decreases pain are reduced. Arthritis affects mostly young people and middle-aged people.

Pain in the legs as a result of degenerative changes in joints

By degenerative (exchange) of joint disease is osteoarthritis. Osteoarthrosis mostly elderly people and people who have had an injury or disease of a joint.

When osteoarthritis as a result of violations of metabolic processes break down the cartilage covering the joint surface. The articular surface of the rough become smooth, bone tissue under the influence of additional load is growing in the form of nodules and thorns, injuring the surrounding soft tissue, blood vessels and nerves, causing pain. Exchange of pain unlike inflammatory pass during rest and immobility of the joint.

Degenerative-dystrophic processes in the spine lead to the destruction of intervertebral discs and spinal nerves infringement. If the infringement takes place in the lumbosacral area, there are pains in the legs, in the course extending from the spinal cord nerves.

Pain in the legs as a result osteochondropathy

Osteochondropathy - a disease of the joints associated with congenital structural features of the joints and periarticular tissues. Osteochondropathy develop in childhood and young age. An example is osteochondropathy aseptic necrosis of the femoral head (Perthes disease). In this disease, the femoral head is destroyed first, and then restores its bone structure. Unfortunately, the full recovery occurs rarely, more likely to develop osteoarthritis and limited mobility of the joint.

Why femoral head suddenly starts to break down, it is not precisely determined, but today, many experts believe that this is due to feature the circulation in this area. Pain in the affected hip with the minor, but the child is usually limp.

Pain in the legs as a result of flat feet

When flat feet Flatfoot - whether to treat it?   It changes the shape of the foot with a decrease in its vaults. This in turn causes a disturbance of the lower extremities. Walking for flat feet accompanied by pain in the legs. Can match not only the foot and lower leg and thigh and sometimes. Expressed flat feet can lead to disability.

Pain in the legs as a result of vascular disease of the lower extremities

Severe pain in the legs can cause such diseases as occlusive disease - a chronic disease of the arteries, accompanied by a gradual slow narrowing of blood vessels and their subsequent complete closure. The main cause of the disease is smoking. Suffering from this disease are mostly men.

Pain in the legs when occlusive disease have their own characteristics: they often appear as "intermittent claudication" - the emergence of severe pain in the calf muscles when walking that cause a person to stop and rest. After resting pain pass, but walking there again.

Often pain in the legs are the consequence of varicose veins Varicose veins - when to consult a surgeon? Which is more common in women. In this disease, the veins can not cope with its load of pumping blood from the lower extremities to the heart, the blood stagnates in the veins of the lower extremities, causing their expansion and formation of knots. Stagnation of blood promotes the formation of blood clots and thrombophlebitis - inflammation of the vein walls.

Pain in the feet it is often combined with heaviness in the legs during walking and night cramps in the calf muscles.

Pain in the feet may have a different origin. In order to get rid of the pain, or at least reduce their intensity should consult a doctor and get tested, after which the doctor can prescribe adequate treatment.

Galina Romanenko

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